Object Details
- Description
This button is from the New Orleans Jazz Club Jazz Party in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is made of white paper with red ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CLUB
[image of a phonograph]
NEW ORLEANS, LA.Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucille Levin
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in; x 4.445 cm
- Object Name
- button
