Louis Armstrong Statue Fund Button
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button depicts American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong. This round button has a white background with a black and white photograph of Louis Armstrong, covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:</p>
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content: <p>I CONTRIBUTED<br>[photograph of Louis Armstrong's face]<br>LOUIS ARMSTRONG<br>STATUE FUND</p>
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content: <p>The Louis Armstrong Statue Fund was supported by contributions of over one thousand individuals from around the world. This project was coordinated by The Louis Armstrong Statue Fund with Benny Carter as its Chairman and Floyd Levin as its Director. It is the centerpiece of the Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. The park and statue were officially dedicated on April 15th, 1980.</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: Louisiana, New Orleans
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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: 2011.3086.151
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content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.151
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content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in; x 4.445 cm