Costa Mesa Classic Jazz Orange County Festival Badge
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This badge is from the Costa Mesa Classic Jazz Orange County Festival. It is made of white paper with multi-color ink, laminated in plastic. There is a gold cord attached to the top of the badge. The badge is printed:</p>
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content: <p>PATRON<br>Floyd Levin<br>Costa Mesa<br>Classic<br>Jazz<br>Orange County<br>Festival</p>
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content: <p>The Orange County Classic Jazz Festival, Inc. was formed in Costa Mesa, California, in 1995. It is a non-profit organization that supports a yearly weekend of concerts of Traditional Jazz from the 1920s to the 1950s.</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: California, Costa Mesa
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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: 2011.3086.124
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content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.124
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: cord (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 3 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 8.89 cm