General Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Creator
content: Blake, Eubie (James Herbert), 1883-1983
label: Collection Creator
content: Darensbourg, Joe, 1906-1985
label: Collection Creator
content: Davison, Bill
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Creator
content: Garland, Ed
label: Collection Collector
content: Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
label: Collection Donor
content: Levin, Lucille
label: Collection Creator
content: Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941
label: Collection Creator
content: Wilson, Buster
setName: label: See more items in
content: Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection
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content: Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection / Series 5: Artists Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880-2010, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1222, Subseries 5.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: Include photographs, newspaper articles, reviews, concert programs, general marketing materials, biographical accounts, and personal documents such as copies of birth and death certificates of jazz artists. There is a substantial amount of material documenting longstanding personal relationships Levin formed with many of the artists among them, Barney Bigard; Louis Armstrong; Joe Darensbourg; Wild Bill Davis and his wife, Anne Stewart Davis; Montudie Garland and Rosy McHargue. In addition, there are materials from private events demonstrating the dynamic social activities the Levins enjoyed within the jazz scene. 

Materials are first arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the artist or band. Following these materials are mostly photographs of artists for which Levin had minimal materials, maintained in the order he created.  Arranged first in alphabetical order by name followed by unidentified artists, and lastly multiple musicians.