Ernie Fields, jazz artist in Tulsa, OK, and his orchestra, 1900 - 2010
Scope and Contents
Printed in black ink, "ERNIE FIELDS AND HIS ORCHESTRA" in lower left corner on recto; Printed in black ink, "ERNIE FIELDS ARTIST 1852 N. Peoria Avenue Tulsa 10, Okla. [partially cut off]" in lower right corner on recto; Inscribed in red ink, "#23 P. 92" in upper right corner on verso; Inscribed in blue ink, ""Best Swing Band in America" Ernie Fields, Tulsa bandleader, 3rd from right holding trombone" in center on verso
People: Ernie Fields band members, Ernie Fields
Places: Tulsa, Ok
Purpose: performance photo
Community Elder Tags: brown tone photo, band members, female member, stage photo, instruments, orchestra, plaid suits, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, director baton, tenor sax, bow ties, baritone
Montecella Driver, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Community Youth Tags: Bandleader, Tulsa, Trombone, Ernie Fields, Swing Band, Peoria
Iana Redman, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Dates
- 1900 - 2010
Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Sepia tinted, black and white, professional photograph; Leaf 4
Language of Materials
English
Credit Line
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Previous Number 1
TL2019.20
- American
- Bandleader
- Ernie Fields
- Ernie Fields
- Ernie Fields Orchestra (Depicted)
- Ernie Fields band members
- Fields, Ernie, Sr. (Depicted)
- Oklahoma -- OK
- Peoria
- Photograph
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
- Tulsa
- Tulsa
- band members
- baritone
- bow ties
- brown tone photo
- director baton
- female member
- guitar
- instruments
- orchestra
- performance photo
- plaid suits
- saxophone
- stage photo
- swing band
- tenor sax
- trombone
- trumpet
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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