<i>Esquire</i> Magazine Award, presented to Duke Ellington
date: label: presentation date
content: 1945
name: label: recipient
content: Ellington, Duke
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This award was presented to Duke Ellington 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 engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Awarded To<br>Duke Ellington<br>Band-Gold Award<br>Esquire's All-American Band<br>1945</p>
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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>
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content: <p>The “Esky” mascot was based on a drawing 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: Popular Entertainment
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content: Jazz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0369.138
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0369.138
label: accession number
content: 1989.0369
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: 15 in x 5 in x 5 in; 38.1 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm