Other Music Company Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Duke Ellington Collection
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content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 3: Business Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0301, Subseries 3.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Consists of materials that document the operations of other music companies that Ellington established, including Mercer Records, Incorporated, Gaye Records, Incorporated, and Eighty-Eight Records, Incorporated, Mercer Records, Incorporated, managed by Ellington's son Mercer and the late Leonard Feather, demonstrate the Ellingtons' attempts to produce their own recordings. Gaye Records, Incorporated, and Eighty-Eight Records, Incorporated, both primarily charter companies, consist of stock certificates and minutes and by-laws. The records are arranged chronologically. The Gaye Records, Incorporated, and Eighty-Eight Records ledgers have been placed at the end of this series.