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The Great Gatsby and the 1920's: Photographs from our Collection

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Portrait of Bix Beiderbecke

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Photographs from our Archive and Manuscript Collection

Acc#2007-04 Bix Box-SC resources
Compilation of original items pertaining to Bix Beiderbecke, including photographs.

Photographs from our collection

Wolverine Orchestra. Gennett Recording Studios [1924]

Wolverine Orchestra. Doyle's Dancing Academy [1924]

Wolverine Orchestra. Doyle's Dancing Academy [1924]

Rhythm Jugglers. Gennett Recording Studio [1925]

Jean Goldkette Orchestra-standing by bus [1926]

Jean Goldkette Orchestra New England Tour [1926]

The Old Gold-Paul Whiteman Special [1929]

Beiderbecke family photographs

Portraits of Bix Beiderbecke [ca. 1905]

Portrait of Emma Beiderbecke [ca. 1910]

Agatha “Aggie” Beiderbecke [ca. 1900]

Residence of Charles Beiderbecke [ca. 1890s]

Bix’s house 1934 Grand Avenue, Davenport [ca. 1930s]

Bix Memorial Jazz Festival photographs from our collection

Whiteman at Beiderbecke tombstone [1940]

Tombstones of Bix and parents - setting wreath [1971]

Crowd and bus at Bix Beiderbecke's gravesite [1971]

Musicians playing at Bix Beiderbecke's gravesite [1971]

Cornet close up with 1934 Grand Avenue in background [1974]

Street sign Beiderbecke Drive and Main St. [1994]

Mural by Loren Shaw Helige in downtown Davenport [1988]

Musicians playing at Bix' Beiderbecke's gravesite [1996]