Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MUSIC.) Group of 27 press photographs of Louis Armstrong. Various sizes and conditions; some retouched. Vp, 1939-71

Additional Details

Includes a 1941 image of Armstrong receiving his "Doctor of Swing" degree from Brooklyn College (see illustration). The caption on verso explains: "Six attractive co-eds who incidentally are 'hep to the jive' are helping to make the presentation."