About the Cab Calloway Collection, which includes photographs, records and ticket stubs that will be on display in the permanent music exhibition "Musical Crossroads"at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway
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- Description
- Transit pass for the St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway. The pass features information about the 9th Annual Pine St. Y Circus featuring Cab Calloway. The pass is a cream and orange-colored pass with additional text and a graphic of Cab Calloway off-center left.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- St. Louis Public Service Company, American, 1927 - 1966
- Subject of
- Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Pine Street YMCA, American, 1919 - 1955
- Date
- April 1944
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- ink on wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (5.4 x 9.2 cm)
- Type
- passes (tickets)
Cab Calloway
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- Exhibition Label
- Born Rochester, New York
- Cab Calloway began performing in Chicago and New York City in the late 1920s. The bandleader and singer became famous after recording “Minnie the Moocher” in 1931—the first jazz song to sell a million copies—and helped popularize “scat” singing during the swing era. Calloway toured extensively, broadcast often on radio, and appeared in films ranging from Stormy Weather (1943) to The Blues Brothers (1980). He also appeared on Broadway as Sportin’ Life in a 1950 revival of Porgy and Bess (he claimed the character was based on him), and with Pearl Bailey in the 1967 all-black revival of Hello, Dolly!
- Provenance
- Artist’s widow, Penny Edwards-Facci; gift to NPG 1999
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- Domenico Facci, 2 Feb 1916 - 6 Nov 1994
- Sitter
- Cab Calloway, 25 Dec 1907 - 18 Nov 1994
- Date
- 1959
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Penny Edwards-Facci
- Medium
- Patinated hydrocal
- Dimensions
- With Base: 45.7 x 18.1 x 17.8cm (18 x 7 1/8 x 7")
- Without Base: 31.8 x 18.1 x 17.8cm (12 1/2 x 7 1/8 x 7")
- Mount: 14 x 14cm (5 1/2 x 5 1/2")
- Type
- Sculpture
