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BY EMMA MILLER
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Corona’s Louis Armstrong House
Museum is working on digitizing
their entire collection so
that anyone can search through photographs,
videos and audio recordings
on the museum’s website.
Deluxe Media Recall, a media production
provider, is digitizing the artifacts
which include never-before-seen photos,
letters, sheet music and more. The digitization
project will make the collections
easier to search and access. The museum
hopes to fi nish the project this year.
Some highlights from the collections
include scrapbooks that date back to
the 1920s and never-before-seen videos,
including the ceremony at Queens
College in 1987 which celebrated the
city’s acquisition of the Armstrong
House that featured a concert by Dizzy
Gillespie, Jon Faddis, Dexter Gordon
and others.
Photographs taken by Jack Bradley,
Armstrong’s photographer and friend,
will fi nally be available to the public
through this digitization project.
The museum’s collection contains
many other photos, including ones
of Armstrong backstage, at home, in
the studio and in concert taken by his
friend Paul Studer.
The collection also features 200 exclusive
pictures that were sold to a man
who lost them, only to later fi nd them
again and donate them to the museum.
The museum is focusing on digitizing
photographs of Armstrong at
home in preparation for their annual
gala in November. The theme for this
year’s gala is the 75th anniversary
of Louis Armstrong moving into his
Corona home at 34-56 107th St.
Andreas Meyer, a Grammy
Award-winning engineer, has helped the
museum digitize their audio collection
of reel-to-reel tapes, acetate discs and
cassette tapes. Soon never before heard
recordings of concerts, interviews and
spoken word performances will be
available through the museum’s website.
The house museum received a grant
from Robert F. Smith’s Fund II Foundation
in 2016 for $2.7 million. With
this money, they were able to fund the
digitization project as well as start the
museum’s fi rst fellowship. The fellowship
program is for African-American
history majors who want to learn more
about working for a museum.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum
opened on Oct. 15, 2003. According
to their website, their mission is to
“educate and inspire people of all ages,
origins and locations.” The house is
almost the same as it was when the
Armstrongs lived there with a few
necessary renovations.
The museum is owned by the New
York Department of Cultural Aff airs
and run by the Queens College.
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