Al Celley Collection of Duke Ellington Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20111015
Photographs and ephemera collected by Ellington's road manager Al Celley, including an autograph narrative of the "Beige" movement from "Black, Brown, and Beige"; a typescript of the three movements of the same; Ellington's notes and correspondence from Doris Asbury regarding the same; typescript first draft of Ellington's "The Beggar's Opera"; concert and festival ephemera (badges, handbills, photographs, ticket) from Newport, Cardiff, and Monterey;... concert poster in Arabic (10th Damascus International Fair); and publicity photographs and a hotel receipt from Frankfurt, Germany.
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0.2 Cubic Feet (7 folders, 1 oversized folder, and 3 items)
English
Arabic
Purchased from Schubertiade with the Leon Robbin Library Endowment Fund.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository