Lake Havasu City Dixieland Jazz Festival Button
date: label: date made
content: 1992
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Dixieland Jazz Festival in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, in 1992. It is a round button with a white background and blue and red printing covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>DIXIELAND at the London Bridge<br>[image of trumpet player]<br>1992<br>LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Dixieland Jazz Festival is an annual event held in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, home of the reconstructed “New” London Bridge built in the 1830s. The bridge was purchased by Missouri entrepreneur Robert P. McCullough from the City of London in 1968, and installed in Lake Havasu City, a city he founded.</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: Arizona, Lake Havasu City
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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: 2011.3086.093
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in; x 5.715 cm