Joe Morgen Correspondence and Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gensel, John
label: Collection Creator
content: Morgen, Joe
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: John Gensel Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0763, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Eight folders of Joe Morgen's personal and business correspondence, 1954-1979.  The correspondence is arranged chronologically by date.  Much of the correspondence directly relates to Morgen's public relations work for Ellington.  Also included is a copy of a contract signed between Morgen and Evelyn Tripp in 1948, Morgen's hotel bills from the Hotel Capitol where he stayed in the 1950s, phone bills (1976-1978), and his telephone and address book.