Ellington Orchestra Music Stand
date: label: manufacturing date
content: early 1960s
name: label: user
content: Duke Ellington Orchestra
label: manufacturer
content: Humes & Berg Manufacturing Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music stand was made by Humes & Berg Manufacturing Co., Inc. in East Chicago, Illinois in the early 1960s. It is made of white-painted Masonite with painted red stripes and black lettering on the front. The music stand is collapsible for shipping and storage.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This music desk was used by the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the 1963 State Department Tour of the Middle East, India, and Sri Lanka.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>There are archival materials of this tour in the National Museum of American History Archives: Naomi Huber Brown Papers (Documenting Duke Ellington’s Concert Tour of Asia in 1963. NMAH.AC.0429)</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, East Chicago
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frank M. Malfitano
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0137.05
label: accession number
content: 2016.0137
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0137.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music stand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: masonite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 25 in x 1 3/4 in; 59.69 cm x 63.5 cm x 4.445 cm