Pretty Kitty; Aunt Mina's Cooking the Sirup
date: label: recording date
content: 1946
name: label: recording artist
content: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band
label: recording artist
content: Marais, Miranda
label: manufacturer
content: Decca
notes: label: Description
content: <p>side 1: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band with Miranda. Pretty Kitty; side 2: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band. Aunt Mina's Cooking the Sirup (Decca 23690), from the album <i>Songs of the South African Veld</i> (Decca A-471).<br>78 rpm.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The cover art for this album was made by Canadian-American commercial artist, fashion illustrator and graphic artist Jean Baird Buckley (1916-2015). Baird was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and as a child moved with her family to Brooklyn, New York. Baird graduated from Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, majoring in art. Subsequently, she attended Pratt Institute for two years. Baird began her career as a staff artist for Montgomery Ward, and afterwards worked as a fashion illustrator for several New York department stores. She worked as a graphic designer for Hearst Publications and then as an art director for Abbot Kimble Agency. Before her marriage to Frank Buckley in 1948, Baird designed album covers for Decca Records. Later in her career Baird Buckley studied at the Art Students League in New York and as a thriving artist her work was featured in over 10 public exhibitions. For 20 years Baird Buckley was an instructor in tonal drawing and oil painting at the Somerset Art Association in Bernardsville, New Jersey.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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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: Family & Social Life
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content: Sound Recordings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Discography of American Historical Recordings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Asbeth Lee and Jack M. Eichner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1023.121
label: accession number
content: 1979.1023
label: maker number
content: A-471
label: maker number
content: 23690
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1023.121
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm