Personal Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Celley, Al
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
setName: label: See more items in
content: Al Celley Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943 - 1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1240, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The personal materials are divided into two subseries: Al Celley and Duke Ellington. Celley's personal materials consist of a prescription, a pocket diary, an amateur radio license, a union card for the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, and a business card for an optician in Toronto. Al Celley's  pocket diary from 1943 contains notes about bills paid and other appointments.  Duke Ellington's personal materials contain a receipt for medical services, 1957; a smallpox vaccination record, 1948; and some biographical information (name, birth date, address, and instrument played) about band members Matthew Gee, Andrew Wilcox Ford, Mitchell Wood, and Eddie Mullen.