Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded to Ella Fitzgerald
date: label: presentation date
content: 1979
name: label: recipient
content: Fitzgerald, Ella
label: presenter
content: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
notes: label: Description
content: Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award presented to jazz vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald in 1979. Playwright Tennesse Williams, choreographer Martha Graham, and composer Aaron Copland were fellow recipients that year.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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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: Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0342.048
label: accession number
content: 1996.0342
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0342.048
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ribbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in x 21 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 38.735 cm x 53.975 cm