Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee Button
date: label: date made
content: 1986
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee Jazz Festival, in 1986. The button is a made of white paper with black and red lettering covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. There is a rectangular hole in the button for a name tag. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>SACRAMENTO<br>[image of paddleboat]<br>FLOYD<br>LEVIN<br>DIXIELAND JUBILEE<br>1986<br>[United Airlines logo]</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Sacramento Music Festival (formerly the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee) was an annual event held every Memorial Day weekend in Sacramento, California. Organized by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the festival was launched in 1974 and presented its final festival in 2017.</p>
label: Description
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, Sacramento
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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: 2011.3086.018
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/16 in x 3 1/2 in; .79375 cm x 8.89 cm