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| Title | Musicians, Seattle, ca. 1925 |
| Photographer | Hartsook |
| Date | ca. 1925 |
| Caption | Frank Waldron (far right) was an influential jazz musician in Seattle, playing trumpet and later alto saxophone in many ensembles and taking on students. He played with the Odean Jazz Orchestra throughout the 1920s at the Nanking Cafe downtown, located at 1616 1/2 4th Ave. |
| Notes | Men pictured: probably Leon Hutchinson, John Slocum, Glover Compton, Frank Waldron.
Caption on image: Hartsook, Seattle.
Handwritten on image: Hutchens [sic], Slocum, Comton [sic], Waldron.
Handwritten on scrapbook page: 1915 [sic] - Musicians in Seattle.
Caption information source: Seattlepi.com and David Keller, Seattle's Black Musicians Union researcher, and Paul DeBarros's publication "Jackson Street After Hours." |
| Subjects | Musicians--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Hutchinson, Leon
Slocum, John
Compton, Glover
Waldron, Frank |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2001.14.2.15F |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions, contact: TheBoard@blackheritagewa.org. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print pasted in scrapbook: b&w; 7 x 9 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
