Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Description
The Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Clayton's wife, Patricia. The collection, which spans from 1928 to Clayton's death in 1991, contains material related to the jazz composer/arranger/trumpeter's personal and professional life.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Count Basie performing

Count Basie seated at a piano. Likely Jo Jones on drum set behind Count Basie.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Emmet Berry and Ed Lewis performing with the Basie Band

Emmet Berry and Ed Lewis performing with Basie Band.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1447.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Rhythm Brown

Signed portrait of Rhythm Brown in a tuxedo and roller skates.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0707.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Harry James

Signed portrait of Harry James playing trumpet.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0716.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys

Signed portrait of Stuff Smith and, likely, his Onyx Club Boys.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0724.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Aritha Anne Dorsey-Clayton age unknown

Aritha Anne Dorsey-Clayton in open-necked white shirt, hair up, aged around mid-60s.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-0037.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Derb with friends in a desert location

Derb with an unidentified group of people; Derb with an unidentified group of people; an unidentified woman with a dog; an unidentified man; Derb with two unidentified people; two unidentified people; Derb with a group of unidentified people. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1486.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page mostly of Buck and Derb in Hawaii

Buck and Derb with members of the band "A bunch at Hawaiians"; Buck and Derb with members of the band "Arriving in Honolulu"; Derb with three unidentified people "High Diver & Entertainers"; Buck and Derb at the Queen's Palace (Honolulu); Buck, Derb and members of the band on the Palace grounds; Buck with other band members "August in China". Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1491.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of photos mostly taken in Hawaii and a couple of photos from China

Boy with a surfboard; an unidentified man, possibly Jack Bratton; Derb with an unidentified woman and the boy with his surfboard; Buck Clayton beside a rickshaw and its driver; Buck riding a rickshaw; Joe E. Brown standing on a boat; Derb standing beside rickshaws with a tennis racket. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1492.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of photos mostly of Derb in China

Derb and Tamara Lewis in a rickshaw with an Asian driver; an unidentified group of people with Derb and Tamara around and on a rickshaw; Derb and Tamara Lewis; two unidentified people on a rickshaw with a driver; Buck and Derb; an unidentified man named Bill on ship deck; the deck steward, Paul. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1493.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Derb in Honolulu

Derb in evening gown and smoking "Mrs. Clayton, Please"; Derb with an unidentified group of people beside a horse and carriage "At the Pier"; Derb in evening gown with a jacket "Doib"; Derb with an unidentified man and child all crouching with a dog "Happy Anne Derb"; "Sonny Lewis"; Buck Clayton crouching with a dog "Buck"; a "Pool in Honolulu" with all boys. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1494.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of the ship to Honolulu and a few tourist sites

Two unidentified men "Savage Serenade"; two members of the band, possibly Teddy Buckner and Duke Upshaw, "Two Brass Masters"; "Derb in Honolulu" holding a child; "Buck at Waikiki" in a swimsuit sitting on a seawall; "Queen's Palace (Honolulu)" mostly a photo of cars; Reginald Jones, Happy Lewis and Herbert "Bumps" Meyers "Jonsey Happy & Bumps"; Herbert "Bumps" Meyers "Bumps in "his" Pilch"; the ship named "Pres Hoover"; Joe McCutcheon with Teddy Weatherford "Vendome Boys"; "Little Hawaiian Girl"; and a profile photo of an unidentified woman titled "Sister Litvit". Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1495.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck and Derb playing tennis

Buck about to serve in tennis standing by the court net; an Asian man pulling a double rickshaw with two African American men on board, the first man is possibly playing tennis standing by the court net, jokingly titled "Helen Wills"; Buck looking down at a tennis racket by the court net jokingly titled "Bill Tilden"; Derb with members of the band dressed all in white suits titled "The Gang"; Derb standing by tennis court net with two rackets under her arm titled "My Babe"; Derb with four Asian men titled "Derb and her boys". Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1496.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of Buck, Derb, Tommy, and Sonny in China

Derb with Sonny Lewis; members of the band; Buck with Tamara Lewis; Derb with Tamara Lewis; Derb with an unidentified Asian man with a bicycle; Buck with Derb, "Tommy," and Sonny Lewis; Buck. Side 2 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_clayton_photo-1497.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0015
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Photo album page of the Harlem Gentlemen band in China

Members of the Harlem Gentlemen band captioned "Our Gang" & our Penthouse; an unidentified man possibly Baby Lewis; members of the band and an Asian gentleman surrounding a small potted tree; Earl Waley, (leader of the Santa Anna Band) leaning over a rooftop wall; Andy (Leader of Ambassador Band) standing on rooftop, smiling with cigar and wearing knickers; members of the band on a rooftop, standing and sitting around and on a pram; an unidentified man, possibly Eddie Beal, in a rickshaw with a driver; Buck with Earl Waley, Jimmie Carsons and Andy, (Four Leaders) standing on a rooftop with an unidentified band member standing behind their left side. Side 1 of 2-sided photo-album panel.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0015