Benny Goodman Commemorative Pin
date: label: date made
content: 1986
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Goodman, Benny
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This commemorative pin was sold by LM Distributors, in 1986. It is a cast gold-tone metal pin with white and brown enamel, and a butterfly style clutch. Jazz musician and bandleader Benny Goodman is depicted on the pin. Accessioned with its original plastic holder. In enamel on pin:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>BENNY GOODMAN<br>1909-1986</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(and printed in gold on plastic holder):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>LM DISTRIBUTORS<br>COMMEMORATIVE<br>JAZZ PIN<br>[music clef]<br>1986</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
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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: 2011.3086.003
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 4.445 cm x .9525 cm