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 Collection
Identifier: MC 1522

Scope and Contents:

The Ann Sperry Papers span the period 1908 to 2008, with the bulk of materials dating from 1970 to 2000. They comprise approximately 19.5 cubic feet (14 record center cartons and 11 phase boxes), and the materials primarily relate to her professional work as an artist. Document types include correspondence, photographs, slides, magazine, cassettes, sketchbooks, and art materials. Also included are personal materials such as journals and children’s drawings.

 Collection
Identifier: IJS-0002

Scope and Contents: The Count Basie family papers and artifacts comprise the extant papers and personal belongings of the Basie family, including Catherine, Diane, and Count Basie. The collection contains personal papers, music, photographic prints and negatives, business records, artwork, and audio and moving image recordings, as well as artifacts. The majority of items in the collection are from the 20th century, particularly the time period between the mid-1950s to the early 1980s.Most...
 Collection
Identifier: IJS-0247

Abstract: Francis Paudras (1935-1997) was an artist, amateur pianist, and jazz enthusiast who developed a close friendship with jazz bebop pianist, Bud Powell (1924-1966). In the early 1960s, Paudras invited Powell to live with him in his Paris apartment, where he became Powell’s caretaker and unofficial manager. The Francis Paudras collection on Bud Powell documents Paudras’s friendship with Powell and includes home movies, interviews about Powell, scrapbooks, footage of Powell’s 1966 funeral...
 Collection
Identifier: MC 009

Abstract:

The Ismay and George Duvivier Papers, Realia and Audiovisual Materials document the professional and personal lives of bassist, arranger and composer George Duvivier and his mother Ismay (née Blakely) Duvivier, a Harlem Renaissance era entertainer.