Photographic print of Dizzy Gillespie seated next to an open instrument case

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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.

This black and white photograph depicts Dizzy Gillespie seated next to an open instrument case with his proper right hand resting palm-up on his proper right knee; his proper left hand holds a trumpet still on his proper left knee. Gillespie looks off camera to the right of the frame; he wears a heavy medallion on a chain around his neck and thick-rimmed, rectangular framed glasses. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom right corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription, by hand, of the numbers: [57], [731], and a photographer's stamp.

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