The Famous Standards of Maceo Pinkard: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A twelve-inch 33 1/3 rpm LP recording of the album "The Famous Standards of Maceo Pinkard." The album cover is grey on the left side and orange on the right and has white, black and orange text. An image of Maceo Pinkard is at the top right. at the bottom left corner are images of Daisy Banks and Delores Andrews.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1959
• Manufactured by: Broadway Records Co., Inc.
• Written by: Maceo Pinkard, American, 1897 - 1962
• Produced by: Edgar Battle, American, 1907 - 1977
• Recorded by: Samuel Evans, American, 1923 - 1994
• Recorded by: Daisy Banks, American
• Recorded by: Vic Carlo, American
• Recorded by: Delores Andrews, American
• Owned by: Ginger Smock, American, 1920 - 1995
• Type: record covers
• Type: long-playing records
• Medium: vinyl, ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (album jacket): 12 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (31.3 × 31.3 cm)
• Dimensions: Diameter (record): 12 in. (30.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Composers (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Ragtime (Music)
• Object number: 2016.161.3.6a-d
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lydia Samuel Bennett
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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