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Photo, Print, Drawing [Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946] Caption from Down Beat: The serious countenance of Django Reinhardt, cover subject by Bill Gottlieb for this issue, is in deference to the great French guitarist's current concert tour with Duke Ellington. Django, who has built a tremendous American reputation through his waxings with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, was brought from Europe last month by the William Morris Agency, and one of his first concerts in this country was the Beat's Chicago Civic Opera House concert earlier this month. He will appear with Ellington Nov. 23-24 at Carnegie Hall

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Title

  • [Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946]

Other Title

  • Caption from Down Beat: The serious countenance of Django Reinhardt, cover subject by Bill Gottlieb for this issue, is in deference to the great French guitarist's current concert tour with Duke Ellington. Django, who has built a tremendous American reputation through his waxings with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, was brought from Europe last month by the William Morris Agency, and one of his first concerts in this country was the Beat's Chicago Civic Opera House concert earlier this month. He will appear with Ellington Nov. 23-24 at Carnegie Hall

Alternate Title

  • Caption from Down Beat: The serious countenance of Django Reinhardt, cover subject by Bill Gottlieb for this issue, is in deference to the great French guitarist's current concert tour with Duke Ellington. Django, who has built a tremendous American reputation through his waxings with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, was brought from Europe last month by the William Morris Agency, and one of his first concerts in this country was the Beat's Chicago Civic Opera House concert earlier this month. He will appear with Ellington Nov. 23-24 at Carnegie Hall

Names

  • Gottlieb, William P. -- 1917- (photographer)

Created / Published

  • 1946, monographic.

Headings

  • -  Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953
  • -  Jazz musicians -- 1940-1950
  • -  Guitarists -- 1940-1950
  • -  Aquarium

Genre

  • graphic

Notes

  • -  Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
  • -  Purchase William P. Gottlieb
  • -  Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at
  • -  In: "Django on the cover," Down Beat, v. 13, no. 24 (Nov. 18, 1946).
  • -  Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 038 (gottlieb assignment)
  • -  038 (assignment)
  • -  Aquarium (venue)
  • -  LC-GLB23-0730 DLC (stock number)
  • -  got99000730 (got)
  • http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.07301 (url)
  • http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.07303 (url)

Form

  • electronic resource
  • remote
  • nonprojected graphic
  • photonegative
  • graphic

Extent

  • 1 negative : b&w ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.

Repository

  • Music Division

Access Condition

  • Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply.

LC Classification

  • LC-GLB23- 0730

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gottlieb, William P. Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. United States, 1946. , Monographic. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.07301/.

APA citation style:

Gottlieb, W. P. (1946) Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. United States, 1946. , Monographic. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.07301/.

MLA citation style:

Gottlieb, William P. Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. , Monographic. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.07301/>.