Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gaskin, Mary
label: Collection Creator
content: Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
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content: Leonard Gaskin Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-2004, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0900, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of material mostly relating to performances dating primarily from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Materials include musician organizations information, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, business cards, correspondence, discographies, promotional literature, greeting cards, and programs. Major tours and/ or events include the 1948 Caribbean and South American tour with Ray Nathan and his American Band, with stops in Trinidad and British Guiana.  There is information relating to his France and Netherlands tour in 1991 and the jazz symposium in Senegal in 1994.  In addition, President Bill Clinton's congressional ball at the White House is included among these materials. The earliest scrapbooks contain Gaskin's family photographs and his elementary school diploma.  Scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order.