Music Manuscript Sketchbooks
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 1: Music Manuscripts
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0301, Subseries 1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Consists of spiral-bound notebooks containing original scores, incomplete scores, sketches, and lyrics by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Tom Whaley and Ellington band members Jimmy Hamilton and John Sanders. There is one notebook created by Ann Michlau. The material is very fragile and valuable.

Titles or title fragments are listed in the order they appear. In some notebooks, researchers' notes identifying the material is included and special care is necessary to maintain this order. Each folder contains one notebook or loose pages grouped for creation or copyright. The creator of each notebook is identified by name at the beginning of the folder; change of creator within each folder is also designated. Most of the folders contain untitled works, and several folders contain only untitled material.