Peninsula Jazz Party Button: Museum Object and Cultural History
Peninsula Jazz Party Button: date made: 1988. user: Levin, Floyd. Object Name: button.
The object in the museum catalogue
This button is from the Peninsula Jazz Party in Palo Alto, California, in 1988. It has a yellow background with black printing covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. These buttons were used for all Jazz Party goers as admission tickets. The button is printed:
Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1988
- user: Levin, Floyd
- Object Name: button
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; x .635 cm x 4.445 cm
- place made: United States: California, Palo Alto
- ID Number: 2011.3086.036
- nonaccession number: 2011.3086
- catalog number: 2011.3086.036
- Credit Line: Gift of Lucille Levin
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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