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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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