Miscellaneous
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Duke Ellington Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1974, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0301, Series 16
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Contains Billy Strayhorn materials and clippings, correspondence, business materials, and ephemera related to or acquired by Duke Ellington that is either unidentified or unique to the collection. They have been grouped by subject or document type and listed alphabetically. When appropriate, materials have been incorporated into the larger collection.

The Billy Strayhorn materials are of particular interest and include programs for the "Copasetics," a social organization founded by Strayhorn and his friends, and an obituary in French by Strayhorn's former companion, Aaron Bridgers. Also of interest are miscellaneous business records and unidentified lyrics.