Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Musician
content: Eckstine, Billy
label: Collection Musician
content: Jones, Quincy, 1933-2024
label: Collection Musician
content: Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008
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content: Bobby Tucker Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1940-2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1141, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily consists of materials collected by Tucker relating to jazz including files that he maintained on artists such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Earl Hines, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughn, and Quincy Jones.  Biographical information about Bobby Tucker is also included among these materials.       

The photographs primarily document Tucker's professional association with various artists including Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Louis Armstrong, Count Bassie, and Quincy Jones. Most of the images are of Tucker during performances and but also include him in social settings with various artists and acquaintances. There are a few images of Tucker in his private life including his marriage to Irma J. Tucker, his home, and memorial materials. An attempt was made to arrange the photographs in chronological order with very few of the images being dated.