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PRIMARY SOURCESThe Louis Armstrong House & Archives http://www.satchmo.net/ The mission of the Louis Armstrong House & Archives is three-fold: (1) to provide access to Armstrong's personal collection of tapes, scrapbooks, photographs, and other such material, (2) to open the Louis Armstrong House as a public museum by 2001, (3) to serve the borough of Queens, especially the Corona-East Elmhurst community, through concerts, exhibitions, and other public programs. House and Archive Hours: http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/collections/jazz.htm The Louisiana State Museum houses one of the largest collections of instruments owned and played by important figures in jazz. The Web site provides some great photographs of Armstrong's life and music. The
Library of Congress American Memory: Photographs from the Golden
Age of Jazz The William P. Gottlieb Collection is comprised of over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. The site provides annotated photographs of Armstrong and his contemporaries. The Smithsonian's
National Portrait Gallery: Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy Louis Armstrong's involvement with the growth of jazz, big band, and swing music. This website includes photographs of Louis Armstrong and family/friends, courtesy of the Louis Armstrong Archive, Queens College, NY. Archive
of the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt The Archive of the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt contains an extensive periodical collection, analytical remarks, book reviews, concert and record reviews, discographies, articles, interviews, and transcriptions. Jazz-Institut Darmstadt |
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