Valley Dixieland Jazz Club Button
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Valley Dixieland Jazz Club in the San Fernando Valley, California. It is a round button made of white paper with blue, red, and yellow ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>VALLEY DIXIELAND<br>[image of a tuba]<br>JAZZ CLUB</p>
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content: <p>The Valley Jazz Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Traditional Jazz in the San Fernando Valley. The organization holds monthly meetings featuring performances of amateur and professional musicians. The organization supports programs, community outreach, master classes, and students attending the Sacramento Jazz Camp.</p>
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content: <p>Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as <i>Down Beat</i>, <i>Jazz Journal International</i>, <i>Metronome</i>, and <i>American Rag</i>. He also authored <i>Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians</i>. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Fernando Valley
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.196
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in; x 5.715 cm