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Library of Congress Digital Archives: Cab Calloway (1947)

Posted by admin in Music, photography on March 27, 2011

If you have never visited it before, you might enjoy exploring the digital collections from the Library of Congress. I recently discovered this in the William P. Gottlieb Collection.

William P. Gottlieb's 1947 Portrait of Cab Calloway

You have to love the caption from the publication, Down Beat, where this originally ran. “Down Beat: Dizzy may play be-bop, but Cab Calloway wears it. The king of hi-de-ho poses backstage at the Strand theater in his be-bop suit, much more conservative than his previous zoot costumes. It is blue serge, no drape, no shape, just a belt in the back, pearl buttons and a hunk of watch chain”

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