Bob Haggarts's 80th Birthday Party Badge
date: label: date made
content: 1994
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This badge is from Bob Haggart’s 80th Birthday Party sponsored by Arbors Records in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1994. It is made of yellow paper with black ink, encapsulated in plastic. The badge is printed:</p>
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content: <p>FLOYD LEVIN<br>BOB HAGGART'S<br>80th BIRTHDAY PARTY<br>March 11-13, 1994<br>St. Petersburg, Florida<br>ARBORS [logo] RECORDS</p>
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content: <p>Arbors Records is an independent label founded by Mat and Rachel Domber in Clearwater, Florida, in 1989. The label focuses on swing music and Dixieland jazz, ans later added contemporary and classic jazz to its roster.</ p>
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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: Florida, Saint Petersburg
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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: 2011.3086.061
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 8.255 cm