The Way You Look Tonight; Some Sunny Day
date: label: recording date
content: 1946
name: label: recording artist
content: Eddie Condon and his Orchestra
label: manufacturer
content: Decca
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Eddie Condon and his Orchestra. side 1: The Way You Look Tonight; side 2: Some Sunny Day (Decca 23721), from the album, <i>Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's</i> (Decca A-490).<br>78 rpm.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The cover art for this album was made by Canadian-American commercial artist, fashion illustrator and graphic artist Jean Baird Buckley (1916-2015). Baird was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and as a child moved with her family to Brooklyn, New York. Baird graduated from Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, majoring in art. Subsequently, she attended Pratt Institute for two years. Baird began her career as a staff artist for Montgomery Ward, and afterwards worked as a fashion illustrator for several New York department stores. She worked as a graphic designer for Hearst Publications and then as an art director for Abbot Kimble Agency. Before her marriage to Frank Buckley in 1948, Baird designed album covers for Decca Records. Later in her career Baird Buckley studied at the Art Students League in New York and as a thriving artist her work was featured in over 10 public exhibitions. For 20 years Baird Buckley was an instructor in tonal drawing and oil painting at the Somerset Art Association in Bernardsville, New Jersey.</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: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Jazz
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content: Sound Recordings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Jazz Records 1942-1965, Vol. 3: Co - El
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucy C. Shain in memory of James Lewis Shain
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0670.545
label: accession number
content: 1978.0670
label: maker number
content: 23721
label: maker number
content: A-490
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0670.545
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm