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[Louis Armstrong conducting band, NBC microphone in foreground] – Historic Reproduction

[Louis Armstrong conducting band, NBC microphone in foreground], 1937 — historic photograph
[Louis Armstrong conducting band, NBC microphone in foreground], 1937. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Here Louis Armstrong stands at the front of his band with a microphone for the NBC broadcast system placed in the foreground, a detail that points to the radio studio where big bands of the 1930s reached national audiences. Armstrong was by then one of the best-known jazz trumpeters in the country, and by 1937 he had already built a following through recordings and live shows in New York and beyond. The picture comes from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun newspaper photograph collection, which documented city life and entertainment through the decade, so it offers a snapshot of how jazz performance and radio were becoming intertwined.

Created / published1937
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesNew York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsArmstrong, Louis,--1901-1971--Performances. Jazz musicians--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195153

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