Photograph of Don Redman: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Don Redman: Date: 1936. Photograph by: Unidentified. Distributed by: Century Orchestra Corporation, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Don Redman. Redman is centrally depicted from the waist up. He stands with his arms and hands extended out to shoulder-level and holds a conductor’s baton in his proper left hand. He is smiling, standing left of center, and looking towards the right edge of the image. He is wearing a white jacket, white pants, white shirt, a black tie, and a black pocket square. He is depicted against a black background. The image is bordered with white and along bottom is black text on the left and right sides. The text on the lower left side reads, [DON REDMAN / and his Orchestra]. The text in the lower right corner reads, CENTURY ORCHESTRA COPR. / 1619 Broadway, New York, N.Y.]. There is a notation in pencil on the front. On the back there are pencil marks throughout and an inscription in pencil that reads, [Compliments of / Don Redmond [sic]].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1936
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Distributed by: Century Orchestra Corporation, American
- Subject of: Donald "Don" Matthew Redman, American, 1900 - 1964
- Subject of: Don Redman And His Orchestra, American, 1931 - 1940
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 7 × 9 5/8 in. (17.8 × 24.4 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.3 × 25.7 cm)
- Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Nightlife
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2013.46.25.51
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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