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Alyce Key and Count Basie on stage, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Merriman, Ted
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Alyce Key and Count Basie on stage, Los Angeles, 1940s

Composer Leon René and jazz musician Count Basie, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Merriman, Ted
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Composer Leon René and jazz musician Count Basie, Los Angeles, 1940s

Sam Taylor, Nelson Creswell, and Lionel Hampton with waitresses, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: The woman on the left is identified as "(Barrow) Joe's Lewis sister". Two sisters of Jow Lewis are identified as Eulala Barrow and Bunis Barrow (a mistake; she was named Vunies; later Vunis High) in the 1930 Census.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Sam Taylor, Nelson Creswell, and Lionel Hampton with waitresses, Los Angeles, 1940s

Group of musicians from New Orleans, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Group of musicians from New Orleans, Los Angeles, 1940s

Jazz musician Eddie Heywood and unidentified women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Jazz musician Eddie Heywood and unidentified women, Los Angeles, 1940s

Obituary for American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Calvin Jackson, December 1985

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: December 7, 1985
Resource Type:: still image
text
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Obituary for American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Calvin Jackson, December 1985

Harry "Sweets" Edison and an unidentified woman, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, Sam, 1892-1976
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Harry "Sweets" Edison and an unidentified woman, Los Angeles, 1940s

Count Basie, Sweets Edison, Prince Spencer and the Nicholas Brothers, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Count Basie, Sweets Edison, Prince Spencer and the Nicholas Brothers, Los Angeles, 1940s

Valaida Snow and three others, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Valaida Snow and three others, Los Angeles, 1940s

Eugene Biscailuz talking to Lionel Hampton, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [between 1940 and 1949?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Merriman, Ted
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Eugene Biscailuz talking to Lionel Hampton, Los Angeles, 1940s