<i>Esquire</i> Magazine Award, presented to Willie Smith
date: label: presentation date
content: 1945
name: label: recipient
content: Smith, Willie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This award was presented to Willie Smith from <i>Esquire</i> magazine in 1945. It features a stylized gold-tone statue of a man playing a trumpet, <i>Esquire</i> magazine’s pop-eyed mascot “Esky,” on a brown-stained wooden base with an embossed and engraved metal plate. The metal plate is marked:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Awarded to<br>Willie Smith<br>Alto Saxophone Armed Forces<br>Silver Award<br>Esquire's All-American Band<br>1945</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p><i>Esquire</i> is an American men’s magazine founded in 1933. The magazine featured its first jazz awards, All-American Jazz All Stars and All-American Jazz Band, chosen by <i>Esquire’s</i> board of leading jazz artists, critics, and writers, in 1944. The inaugural winners included Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Al Casey, Oscar Pettiford, and Sidney Catlett.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The “Esky” mascot created by African American cartoonist E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971).</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Fischella Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0087.08
label: accession number
content: 1990.0087
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0087.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 13.97 cm x 13.97 cm