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Photographic print of Cab Calloway and his band in a sleeper car

1933

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white photograph of Cab Calloway and his band in sleeper car. Calloway and the band are pictured wearing pajamas, while holding their instruments. Calloway is visible in bottom right corner of photograph. [PH6-13] is inscribed in the bottom left corner of the photograph. The back of the photograph is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2013.237.14

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