Historical Photographs and Negatives
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Schiedt, Duncan P., 1921-2014
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content: Duncan P. Schiedt Photograph Collection
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content: Duncan P. Schiedt Photograph Collection / Series 2: Photographic Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1323, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of over five thousand prints and negatives acquired by Duncan Scheidt to form what he hoped was a comprehensive selection of materials  primarily for collectors such as himself.  The prints and negatives are black and white images either created by or copied by Duncan Schiedt.  Schiedt traded materials with other collectors preferring negatives or original photographs that had not been copied.  In some cases he also loaned materials to individuals. Most of these images are identified although the spelling of individual artists and bands varies. Images tend to be of well-known artists but also include some lesser known jazz musicians and dance bands. Well-known musicians include Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Eubie Blake, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb Band, Gene Krupa, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Fats Waller, Sonny Greer, Louis Armstrong, Les Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Lunceford, Cootie Williams, Chick Webb and Blind Lemon Jefferson.  The musicians are seen performing in a number of establishments primarily located in Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Louisiana, Florida, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Paris, France. Most of the images are dated and were assigned a number by Schiedt beginning with the letter "H" for historical. Some of the numbers are further identified by a letter of the alphabet, for example, H-827C. Schiedt created an index for purchasing photographic prints of these materials; however, it was not updated to include all of the negatives and ends with H2136. 

The materials are arranged first by type and then by number. Boxes five through twelve contain the black and white photographic prints arranged by the "H" numbers. Boxes forty-three through forty-five are the index cards for these photographs also arranged by the "H" numbers. Boxes forty-six through seventy-two are black and white negatives arranged by the "H" numbers and listed here by name of subject.  Some of the negatives are of the photographs in boxes five through twelve. Most of the negatives are dated and consist of individual portraits and candid images of jazz musicians and bands dating from the early 1900s through the 1980s.  Box forty two contains material that was originally folded and housed in the enclosures with the negatives. These materials include captions about the images or notes and correspondence. They were unfolded and removed from the negative enclosures to provide proper housing.  The materials are arranged by the "H" numbers.