Harry Carney Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1959, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0415, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes four VHS copies of home movies shot by Ellington Orchestra member, baritone saxophonist Harry Carney during Orchestra tours. The footage includes the Orchestra playing softball, performance excerpts from Ellington's seminal musical Jump for Joy, as well as footage shot at social gatherings, and apparently during sightseeing tours taken by Carney and other members of the aggregation.