Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Edward
label: Collection Creator
content: Richardson, Deborra A.
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Gaye
setName: label: See more items in
content: Edward and Gaye Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899 - 1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0704, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials consist primarily of biographical and personal information relating to Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington.  These materials include a chronology of his first recordings, documents relating to his medical history and an autopsy, interviews, photographs, notes for Ellington's autobiography Music Is My Mistress and the eulogy that was delivered at his funeral among other materials. The materials are arranged in chronological order.