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BOX 135-136; 144-150 Scrapbooks, 1963-1986
This series documents many aspects of Pearl Bailey"s and Louis Bellson's lives. Each volume covers multiple subjects; single subject volumes are located in the series they document. Among the topics included are the Amtrak crash rescue, Bailey and Bellson tours, baseball, honorary degrees, production of Member of the Wedding, performance reviews of The Pearl Bailey Show, and volunteer activities. There is also a significant amount of correspondence with political figures, foreign leaders, and ambassadors. Noteworthy topics and correspondents are identified in the notes for each volume. Some letters are annotated with Bailey's response.
Materials include correspondence, clippings, iconography, and photographs.
Arranged chronologically by volume contents.
BOX-FOLDER 135/1 1963-1966, 1972-1973
Includes: London trip and performance reviews and photographs of Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson
BOX 144 1967, 1982-1988
Correspondents include: Howard Baker, Joy Baker, Michael Berenbaum, Dan Enright, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Ford, Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Koch, Hamad Abdul Rahman el Midfa, Vartan Gregorian, Anthony Newley, Farah Pahlavi, Nancy Reagan, Bob Stump, C. William Verity, and William Webster
Includes: Pearl Bailey branch library Newport News, Virginia, Hello Dolly! 1967 program, In Performance at the White House, Kansas City Royals first pitch, National Conference on Soviet Jewry, performance reviews, speaking engagements, Thomas Edison State College honorary degree, University of South Carolina honorary degree, and photographs of Jane Alexander (inscribed to Pearl Bailey), Pearl Bailey, Tamara Baker, Tony Bellson, Jehan Sadat, Robin, and "Sugar" Williams (inscribed to Pearl Bailey)
BOX-FOLDER 135/2 1972-1974
Correspondents include: Kathryn and Bing Crosby and Leontyne Price
Includes: Articles and performance reviews as well as photographs of Pearl Bailey and Debbie Reynolds
BOX-FOLDER 135/3 1975-1976 and undated
Includes: Hello Dolly!, miscellaneous topics, and photographs of Pearl Bailey and travel in Abu Dhabi, Jordan, Liberia, and Senegal
BOX 145 1977-1983
Correspondents include: Talal bin Abdulaziz, Howard Baker, Bruce Babbitt, Tony Bennett, Elizabeth Dole, Betty Ford, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Delbert Mann, Brandon Tartikoff, Guy Vander Jagt, Charles S. Robb, Sarah Vaughan, Harold Washington, and Ardeshir Zahedi
Includes: Event programs, Howard University honorary degree, Member of the Wedding production files and reviews, National School Volunteer program, Knox County Indiana honorary citizenship performance reviews, WAIF benefit, and photographs of Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, Blazematazz with Eura Bailey, and Ronald Reagan
BOX-FOLDER 136/1-3 1982-1985 and undated
Correspondents include: Tony Bailey, Nancy Reagan, Abdullah Salah, and Ardeshi Zahedi
Includes: Georgetown graduation, Salvation Army, United States Airforce 42nd Electronic Combat Squadron visit, and photographs of Dee Dee Bailey, Pearl Bailey, Tony Bailey, Louis Bellson, Red Buttons, Tip O'Neill (inscribed to Pearl Bailey), Pearl Bailey Show production stills including Jimmy Durante, Tony Bennett and Orie Sasaki, Russia trip, Dinah Shore, and Liv Ullmann (inscribed to Pearl Bailey)
BOX 146 1983-1984
Correspondents include: Joseph P. Addabbo, Alan Alda, Jim Bakker, Bruce Babbitt, Barbara Bush, Dave Durenberger, Thomas J. Downey, Betty Ford, Gerald Ford, Benjamin A. Gilman, Monty Hall, Arthur Hartman, Carroll O'Connor, William Webster, Faith Ryan Whittlesey, and Minnie Wilkins
Includes: Portrait by Benedetto (Tony Bennett), Cherry Blossom Parade grand marshal, event programs, performance reviews, NAACP Humanitarian awards dinner, Russia trip, NAACP Image Awards certificate, and photographs of Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, and Ronald Reagan
BOX 147 1984
Correspondents include: Shinzo Abe, Bruce Babbitt, Tony Bailey, James E. Cheek, Paula Hawkins, Victoria Pedrick, Nancy Reagan Isobel Silden, William Webster, and Ardeshir Zahedi
Includes: Watercolor portrait of Pearl Bailey by Debi Bartlett, al Hussein Centre, American Lung Association event, event invitations and programs, Miss America pageant, performance reviews, Republican women reception, Russia trip, and photographs of Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, Cherry Blossom parade grand marshal, Cary Grant, John Dingell, and Nancy Reagan
BOX 148 1984-1986
Correspondents include: Bruce Babbitt, Malcolm Baldridge, Barbara Bush, Carol Channing, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Mike Foley, Betty Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Ashraf al Ghorbal, Dolores and Bob Hope, Phyllis McGuire, Anne Meara, Nancy Reagan, Jerry Stiller, William Sullivan Jr, and Ardeshir Zahedi
Includes: Photographs of Amtrak crash, Pearl Bailey, William Bennett, Barbara Bush, and Ann Richardson
BOX 149 1985-1986
Correspondents include: Betty Ford, John Glenn, Arthur A. Hartman, Bob Knight, and John O. Marsh
Includes: National Bible Week, Emmy nomination, event invitations, National Mental Health Association dinner, performance reviews, and photographs of Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, Bobby Knight, and Michael Nouri (inscribed to Pearl and Louie)
BOX 150 Clippings, 1974-1979 and undated
Note: Created by Susan Greenblatt-Menenberg
BOX 71; 137-140 Photographs, 1950s-1989
This series contains images of Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, their children, friends, and the many public figures they met and befriended during Bailey's career. Included are formal portraits of Bailey; "official" photographs with presidents, ambassadors, and cabinet officials; and more candid shots with Bellson and others.
These is an extensive set of slides documenting family activities, tours, and Bailey's travels. Each slide folder represents one set of images as received by the Music Division. File names derived from image content were assigned to the slides for ease of use. Dates for these materials come from the original slide boxes.
Additional topically specific photographs are located throughout the collection.
Materials include black and white contact sheets, black and white and color prints and negatives, color slides, and photograph albums.
Arranged alphabetically by file unit.
Pearl Bailey
Portraits
BOX-FOLDER 137/1 1950s-1960s
Black and white prints
BOX-FOLDER 137/2 1970s
Black and white prints and negatives; color prints and negatives
BOX-FOLDER 137/3 1985
Black and white prints and negatives; color negatives; color transparency
BOX-FOLDER 71/3; 137/4 Undated
Black and white prints and negatives; color negatives
BOX-FOLDER 71/4 Undated
Black and white and color prints
Includes: Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson
Note: Inscribed from Javille to Luigi [Pearl to Louie]
With Others
BOX-FOLDER 137/5 Ambassadors, undated
Black and white prints
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Abdullah Saleh, and Ardeshir Zahedi
BOX-FOLDER 137/6 Astronauts, 1970 June 3
Black and white print
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Fred Haise, Jim and Marilyn Lovell, and Jack Swigert
BOX-FOLDER 137/7 Cabinet officers, 1988 and undated
Black and white print
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Frank Carlucci, Donald Rumsfeld, and William Webster
BOX-FOLDER 71/5 Family Planning Research Institute, Alexandria Egypt, undated
Black and white print
BOX-FOLDER 137/8 Fitzgerald, Ella, undated
Black and white print
BOX-FOLDER 137/9 In London, undated
Black and white prints
Includes: Pearl Bailey and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
BOX-FOLDER 71/6 Murray's Dude Ranch, Apple Valley, California, 1958
Black and white prints
Includes: Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson
BOX-FOLDER 137/10 Naval Hospital in St. Albans, New York, 1969
Black and white print
BOX-FOLDER 137/11 Queen Noor, 1985 October 1
Color prints and negatives
Includes: Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson
Presidents and First Ladies
BOX-FOLDER 137/12 Bush, George and Barbara, 1981-1985 and undated
Black and white print; color prints and negatives
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Kenny Rodgers, and Anwar and Jehan Sadat
BOX-FOLDER 71/7; 137/13 Ford, Gerald and Betty, 1976 and undated
Black and white print; color print
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Dick Cheney, Remo Palmier, and Donald Rumsfeld
BOX-FOLDER 137/14 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1961
Black and white print
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, Edyie Gormé, Lyndon B. Johnson, Steve Lawrence, and Dean Martin
BOX-FOLDER 71/8 Nixon, Richard M, undated
Color prints
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Willy Brandt, and Patricia and Richard Nixon
BOX-FOLDER 137/15 Reagan, Nancy, 1984
Color prints and negatives
At Dallas Convention
BOX-FOLDER 137/16 Reagan, Ronald and Nancy, 1980s
Black and white prints; color prints and negatives; one item mounted on glass
Includes: Pearl Bailey, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Nancy Reagan, and Ronald Reagan. Several images are inscribed from Nancy and/or Ronald Reagan
BOX-FOLDER 137/17 Sadat, Jehan, 1986
Color prints and negatives
Note: Inscribed from Sadat to Bailey
BOX-FOLDER 71/9; 137/18 Unidentified, 1973 and undated
Black and white prints and negatives
BOX-FOLDER 137/19 Snapshots, 1958 and undated
Color prints
Family
BOX-FOLDER 106/4 Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson, circa 1969
Black and white print on red paper
BOX-FOLDER 137/20 Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson, 1973 and undated
Black and white prints and negatives
MAPCASE FOLDER 3 Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson, undated
Black and white print mounted on foam core
BOX-FOLDER 137/21 Bailey Family members, undated,
see also Writings Talking to Myself
Black and white prints; color print; one item mounted on glass
Includes: Bill Bailey, Pearl Bailey, Ella Mae Bailey Robinson, and Virgie? Bailey
BOX-FOLDER 137/22 Bailey/Bellson family dog, undated
BOX-FOLDER 137/23 Bailey/Bellson family photograph album, undated
Black and white and color prints in album
Includes: Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, and Tony Bellson
BOX-FOLDER 138/1 Tony and Dee Dee Bellson, 1950s-1972
Includes: Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson
BOX-FOLDER 138/2 Inscribed, undated
Black and white prints
Includes: Dave Atkins, the Checkmates, Frank Moore Four, the Kingpins, Moses Lamar, Vicki McClure, and the Three Angels
BOX-FOLDER 138/3 Rededication of Pearl Bailey Branch Library, 1988 September 12
Photograph album with color prints
Slides (color)
BOX-FOLDER 138/4-5 1966 May
BOX-FOLDER 138/6 1966 July
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