Dumas B. Laster photograph collection. [ca. 1880-1960]

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Dumas B. Laster photograph collection. [ca. 1880-1960]

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This collection contains five photos apparently collected by a Boulder barber named Laster. Envelope #1 holds a portrait of an older woman ca. 1880s. Envelope #2 contains snapshots of 3 men with large fish; one of these, showing the 165 lb. blue marlin that Jack Cys caught in 1954, is inscribed "to Laster/ as big as your stories/ Sincerely/ Jack Cys." D. Clements is shown with the 143 lb. marlin he had caught on 8 June 1953. Perhaps the man in the 3rd fisherman photo is Laster himself. Envelope #3 contains an 8 x 9" glossy portrait of Louis Armstrong holding his trumpet, and is inscribed "To Lass/ and all of the other cats at the shop/ Louis Satchmo Armstrong."

5 photographs, in three envelopes in one folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7456073

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Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

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Louis Armstrong, a jazz musician and entertainer, was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He claimed to have been born on July 4, 1900, which is the date given on his World War I draft card. However, recent research gives good documentation to the August 4, 1901 date, including his baptismal certificate. Some sources also cite 1898 as his birth date. He died on July 6, 1971. Armstrong was born and raised in New Orleans. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an inventive trumpet a...

Cys, Jack H., 1906-1981.

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Clements, D.

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Laster, Dumas B.

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