Online Catalog of Museum Collections Launched!

QUEENS, N.Y., December 16, 2010 - The Louis Armstrong House Museum announced last night that cataloging for its three largest collections is now accessible through its website, http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/. By the end of 2011, the Museum's entire catalog will be online. The direct link to the catalog can be accessed at: http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/collections/online_catalog.htm

The Louis Armstrong House Museum holds the world's largest archives devoted to a single jazz musician. Its collections encompass more than 5,000 sound recordings, 15,000 photographs, 30 films, 100 scrapbooks, 20 linear feet of letters and papers, and six trumpets. Researchers, record companies, publishers, film producers, public school students, and many others routinely use these materials. Since 1994, more than a dozen books and recordings have been published based on research from the collections, including Terry Teachout's Pops, a notable book of 2010.

"The world is more interested than ever in Louis Armstrong," said Michael Cogswell, director of the Museum. "That's evident not only from the ever-increasing number of people from around the world who visit our Museum, but also from the number of researchers using our archives and the great popularity of recent Armstrong films and books."

The research core of the archives is the Louis Armstrong Collection, comprising Satchmo's vast personal trove of home-recorded tapes, photographs, scrapbooks, manuscript band parts, and other materials discovered inside his modest house in Corona, Queens, after his wife, Lucille, passed away in 1983. A grant from the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation made possible the Museum's acquisition of the world's largest private collection of Armstrong material from Jack Bradley, Armstrong's friend and a noted jazz photographer. As might be expected, a strength of this collection lies in the hundreds of candid, previously unpublished photographs taken or collected by Bradley over five decades. The collections are currently housed in the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library at Queens College.

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