Photograph of Louis Armstrong recording at the CBS Studio in New York: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Louis Armstrong recording at the CBS Studio in New York: Date: 1940s. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Louis Armstrong, American, 1901 - 1971.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph (a) of Louis Armstrong performing at the CBS Studio in New York. Armstrong is pictured standing center of frame, in front of a microphone with [CBS] at top and along the side. He holds a trumpet in his left hand, and holds his right in a fist, thumb extended, in front of his chest. He appears to be singing. Unidentified men are visible behind him, and a young woman sits in front of the microphone, in the right foreground of the image. The photograph has been removed from its mat and frame (b).
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1940s
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Louis Armstrong, American, 1901 - 1971
- Subject of: Columbia Broadcasting, Inc., founded 1928
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: 2014.63.92a: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper;
- Medium: 2014.63.92b: mat board and glass in wood with metal
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 8 11/16 × 6 5/8 in. (22.1 × 16.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 9 3/16 × 7 in. (23.3 × 17.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W x D (frame): 14 5/8 × 12 11/16 × 1 5/16 in. (37.1 × 32.2 × 3.3 cm)
- Place captured: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Radio
- Object number: 2014.63.92ab
- 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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