Pat and Chuck Bress Jazz Portrait Photographs
name: label: Donor
content: Bress, Chuck
label: Donor
content: Bress, Pat
label: Names
content: Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.)
label: Names
content: Charley's Place (Washington, D.C.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Jazz
label: Topic
content: Nightclubs
label: Topic
content: Jazz musicians -- 1970-1990 -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Pat and Chuck Bress in 2011.
creator: label: Donor
content: Bress, Chuck
label: Donor
content: Bress, Pat
setName: label: See more items in
content: Pat and Chuck Bress Jazz Portrait Photographs
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Married couple Chuck and Pat Bress worked as photographers, both individually and as a team. Also jazz aficionados, they photographed jazz musicians
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1219
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into five series.

Series 1: Textual Materials
 
Series 2: Photographic negatives and contact sheets		
 
Series 3: Photographic Prints (8 x 10)		
 
Series 4: Photographic Prints (11 x 14)		
 
Series 5: Photographic Prints (16 x 20)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Archives Center staff, 2019.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1980-1990
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film -- 1980-1990
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily black-and-white photographic prints and photographic negatives created by Pat Bress and Chuck Bress in the late 1980s. The photographs depict jazz musicians and singers performing at two Washington, D.C. night clubs, Charley's Place and Blues Alley, in challenging lighting situations. Also, a box of correspondence and miscellaneous written documents related to the photographers' work and association with jazz figures.