Preservation Hall Button
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Willie Humphrey Preservation Hall show in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1984. It is a made of red paper with black ink covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. Willie Humphrey would hand out these buttons at moments when as he danced during the show. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>WILLIE HUMPHREY<br>'84<br>PRESERVATION<br>HALL<br>I DANCED WITH WILLIE</p>
label: Description
content: <p>William James Humphrey (1900-1994), born in a family of musicians, was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Humphrey performed with several New Orleans groups including the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Excelsior Brass Band.</p>
label: Description
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: Louisiana, New Orleans
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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: 2011.3086.024
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; x .635 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 3.81 cm