Photo album page of Buck and the band in China with a signed Duke Ellington portrait
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@ University of Missouri
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Buck Clayton standing in white suit with handwritten caption "Tropical"signed "To Buck Clayton Best Wishes Duke Ellington" portrait of Duke Ellington in script and green ink and captioned "The Duke"Buck, Babe and Sonny Lewis riding a rickshaw with two band members pulling the rickshaw captioned Shanghai Yellow CabBuck and Derb with an unidentified woman captioned Babe Buck DerbBuck and Joe McCutcheon with two unidentified men, possibly Cole Porter or Sam Browne or unidentified and Baby Lewis, captioned All OtaysJoe McCutcheon and Buck Clayton pulling a rickshaw with the Asian rickshaw driver in the rickshaw and captioned "Left Side"Shanghai, China. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.No datelikely between 1934 and 1937Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.6 photos mounted on a photo album page with handwritten captions. Top row, left to right: "Tropical", "The Duke", and Shanghai Yellow Cab. Bottom row, left to right: Babe Buck Derb, "All Otays", and "Left Side".
6 Photographs : Black And White Print; 11 X 7 Cm On Card Mount 27 X 34 Cm; Image/Tiff; Image/Jpeg; Image/Jp2
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