Photographs and Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Cheatham, Doc, 1905-1997
label: Collection Creator
content: Cheatham, Amanda
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content: Doc Cheatham Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930s-1990s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0814, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series contains photographs documenting Cheatham's career and personal life.  The series is arranged in categories and general chronological order.  The categories include Cheatham in Concert Solo and with Others, Photographs taken at the jazz club Sweet Basil, and Candids of Cheatham alone and with Family, Friends, and Associates.  The photographs span the 1930s-1990s.  Also included are photo albums and scrapbooks.  The photo album from Cheatham's trip to Africa in 1957 with Wilbur De Paris contains very few photos of the band in performance settings but does include many photos of the places and people he encountered throughout the tour. He spent a significant amount of time in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s and the Europe scrapbook contains photographs and some memorabilia.  The most recent photo album is the collection of photos and letters put together for Cheatham by students at Lafayette Elementary School after he visited the school on Valentine's Day in 1994. 

The series also contains some sketches of Cheatham and a framed drawing of a man playing a trumpet.