DescriptionThis scrapbook includes clippings about Count Basie and photographs of Count Basie as a band leader, the Count Basie Orchestra, and many performers and others associated with Count Basie.
NoteThe Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, received a project support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, to process the Count Basie family papers. Conservation and preservation of the Count Basie family papers and artifacts was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Park Service, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
GenreScrapbooks, Albums (Books), Photographs, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Detail: The items in this record are part of the Count Basie family papers and artifacts (IJS-0002). A finding aid with information about the contents of the collection is available online.
CollectionCount Basie family scrapbooks and photograph albums
Organization NameRutgers University. Institute of Jazz Studies
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