Statue of Louis Armstrong
date: label: manufacturing date
content: ca 1972
name: label: depicted
content: Armstrong, Louis
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This chalkware statue of American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was made by Esco Products, Inc. in New York, circa 1972. The statue depicts Armstrong in a burgundy jacket with white shirt, black bowtie, pants and shoes, holding a trumpet in his right hand and a handkerchief in his left hand. As in many of Esco’s celebrity statues, the heads are exaggerated in size. </p>
label: Description
content: <p>The statue was given to American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and is inscribed on the bottom of the statue, “FROM PHOEBE.”</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: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
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content: Art
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0342.062
label: accession number
content: 1996.0342
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0342.062
objectType: label: Object Name
content: statue
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 5 13/16 in; 40.005 cm x 16.51 cm x 14.76375 cm