Photograph of Jimmy Miller playing guitar: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Jimmy Miller guitarist for Noble Sissle and His Orchestra. Miller is depicted seated, playing a six (6) sting acoustic guitar. Miller has short hair and a mustache. He is wearing a tweed suit, a patterned tie, and a white button down shirt. An inscription by Miller on the front of the photograph in black in reads: [TO SALLY / ONE IN A MILLION / A TRUE FRIEND / JIMMY / NOBLE SISSLE'S ORCH. / 3/1/37]. There are no inscriptions on the back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: March 1, 1937
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Jimmy Miller, American
• Subject of: Noble Sissle and His Orchestra, American
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 4 1/2 × 6 9/16 in. (11.4 × 16.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 4 7/8 × 7 1/16 in. (12.4 × 18 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2013.46.25.10
• 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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