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Iconography, circa 1940-2015 (continued)
Photographs and Artwork, circa 1940-1990
Charles Mingus, alone and with family, friends
BOX-FOLDER 72/12 Charles Mingus, alone, 1940s-1978
BOX-FOLDER 39/6 Charles Mingus, composing at home in Manhattan, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 40/1 Charles Mingus, with Dannie Richmond, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 40/2 Charles Mingus, undated
BOX-FOLDER 50/9 Charles Mingus playing bass, undated
BOX-FOLDER 75/1 Charles Mingus, photograph button, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/13 Charles Mingus, with others, 1940s-1978
BOX-FOLDER 72/15 Friends and family, circa late 1940s-1960s
BOX-FOLDER 72/16 Friends and family, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/14 Susan "Sue" Graham Mingus, undated
Others
BOX-FOLDER 72/17 Carney, Harry and Cootie Williams, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/18 Davis, Miles, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/19 Dolphy, Eric, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/20 Ellington, Duke and unidentified, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/21 Ferguson, Maynard, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/22 Jones, Thad, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/23 Pettiford, Oscar, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/24 Richmond, Dannie, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/1 Roach, Max, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/2 Shaw, Artie, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/3 Silver, Horace, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/4 Sinatra, Frank, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/5 Winding, Kai, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/6 Multiple musicians, 1976
Photographed by H. L. Lindenmaier
Photo-postcards of Art Blakey; Anthony Braxton; Stanley Clarke; Joseph Jarman; Charles Mingus; Sam Rivers; Alan Silva; Anthony Williams
BOX-FOLDER 73/7 Unidentified, undated
One photograph; one headshot of Art Davis? Paul Jeffrey?
BOX-FOLDER 73/9 Photograph negatives, undated
BOX-FOLDER 73/10 Slides, 1965-1967
BOX-FOLDER 40/12 "Space Soul," undated
By Elliott Cola
Painting
BOX-FOLDER 73/8 Travel, circa 1950s-1970s
Photographs and photo-postcards
Cover Art, 1954-2015
BOX-FOLDER 40/3 Autobiography in Jazz, 1955
Musicians: various
BOX-FOLDER 39/2 Blue Moods, 1955
Musician: Miles Davis
BOX-FOLDER 73/11 Changes One and Two, circa 1973-1974
Musician: Charles Mingus
BOX-FOLDER 40/4 Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups, 2015
Musicians: Mingus Dynasty
BOX-FOLDER 40/5 Cunningbird, 1977
Musicians: Jimmy Knepper Quintet
BOX-FOLDER 40/6 Epitaph, 1990
Musician: Charles Mingus
BOX-FOLDER 40/7 The Fabulous Thad Jones, 1954
BOX-FOLDER 40/8 Jimmy Knepper in L. A., 1978
Musicians: Jimmy Knepper Quintet
BOX-FOLDER 40/9 The John LaPorta Quintet with Louis Mucci, 1954
BOX-FOLDER 39/3 Manhattan Monodrama, 1957
Musician: Alonzo Levister
BOX-FOLDER 40/10 The Max Roach Quintet Featuring Hank Mobley, 1954
BOX-FOLDER 40/11 Mingus at Monterey, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 39/5 More Than a Fake Book, 1991
Book cover art
Musician: Charles Mingus
BOX-FOLDER 39/4 New Piano Expressions, 1955
Musician: John Dennis
BOX-FOLDER 39/1 Three Moods, 1955
Musician: John LaPorta
BOX-FOLDER 40/13 Tijuana Moods: The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop, 1958
BOX 34, 41 Awards, 1970-1978
A small number of Charles Mingus's awards and nominations, most received during his lifetime, comprise the Awards series. Those represented in the collection include his Grammy nomination for Let My Children Hear Music and the Newport Jazz Festival Hall of Fame Award. The only posthumous award in this series is the document establishing October 22 as "Charles Mingus Day" in the District of Columbia.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 41/1 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers: The ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1970 December 10
BOX-FOLDER 34/1 The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences: 15th Annual Grammy Awards Nomination, 1973
Note: Let My Children Hear Music nominated for Best Album Notes (non-Classical)
BOX-FOLDER 41/3 Newport Jazz Festival: Hall of Fame Award, 1976
BOX-FOLDER 34/2 University of California, Berkeley Jazz Festival Hall of Fame Award, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 41/2 District of Columbia: Charles Mingus Day, 1979 October 22

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