Memphis Slim

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Jazz pianist Memphis Slim's head and shoulders are visible and he does not smile as he holds a microphone across his chest with his right hand and sits at a piano at an unidentified venue. There is a wall mural behind him of mountains and sky. A Schlitz beer sits on a table in the foreground. Memphis Slim wears a light colored shirt, necktie, and suit jacket.

Member of

Dolores Hobley Collection

Language English

Date Published

1929

1931

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Subject, Old

African American jazz musicians

Jazz musicians

Pianists

Piano

African American men

Time Period

1921-1930

Notes

No date; likely circa 1930, Handwritten on back, "Memphis Slim." Handwritten just below the photograph, "Memphis Slim.", Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original

1 photograph : black and white print ; 9 x 8 cm

Filename

umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-015.tif

Genres

Gelatin silver prints

Black & white photographs

Portrait photographs

Snapshots

Type

photographs