Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is contained in box 3, folders 1-10, and box 6, folders 3-5. Included are assorted documents and ephemera, such as biographical/discographical entry on Thomas; memorials and eulogies; awards and dedications; miscellaneous legal documents; a memo book; bookkeeping material; Beau Brummel Club & Dreamland Ballroom tickets; Lincoln High School yearbook (1939); miscellaneous Watkins Brothers Funeral Homes & Bruce R. Watkins material; event flyers, booklets, and programs; club...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is contained in box 3, folders 1-10, and box 6, folders 3-5. Included are assorted documents and ephemera, such as biographical/discographical entry on Thomas; memorials and eulogies; awards and dedications; miscellaneous legal documents; a memo book; bookkeeping material; Beau Brummel Club & Dreamland Ballroom tickets; Lincoln High School yearbook (1939); miscellaneous Watkins Brothers Funeral Homes & Bruce R. Watkins material; event flyers, booklets, and programs; club...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is contained in box 3, folders 1-10, and box 6, folders 3-5. Included are assorted documents and ephemera, such as biographical/discographical entry on Thomas; memorials and eulogies; awards and dedications; miscellaneous legal documents; a memo book; bookkeeping material; Beau Brummel Club & Dreamland Ballroom tickets; Lincoln High School yearbook (1939); miscellaneous Watkins Brothers Funeral Homes & Bruce R. Watkins material; event flyers, booklets, and programs; club...

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This series is contained in boxes 4 and 5, and box 6, folders 1 and 2. Materials include manuscript and published scores and charts to songs performed by the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, of which Thomas was a member in the 1930s and 1940s. This material is arranged alphabetically by title. Also included in this series are miscellaneous materials about the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, such as flyers, advertisements, and radio transcripts.

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Ink MS. 31.2 cm x 23.6 cm. 3 L., 3 pp. Keyboard and melody. Missing front leaves.

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Pencil MS. 31.7 cm x 24.1 cm. 8 L., 11 pp. Condensed score (complete concert sketch). 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 5 saxophones, piano and bass. Arrangement by F.

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Pencil MS. 34.4 cm x 26.7 cm. 3 L., 5 pp. Full score. Jazz big band. Arrangement by Sanforf A. Annotations in blue ink. Reverse side of P. [5] includes scratched out music material.

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Pencil MS. 34.4. cm x 26.7 cm. 2 L., 4 pp. Full score. Jazz big band. Annotations in black and blue ink.

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Pencil MS. 16 L., 17 pp. P. [1-14], 23.5 cm x 27.9 cm. P. [15-16], 34.3 cm x 27.8 cm. Full score. Jazz trio and rhythm section. Arrangement by G.B.Q.

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Ink MS. 31.4 cm x 23.8 cm. 2 L., 2 pp. Drums part score. Arrangement by G. Rhodes.

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Ink MS. 30.4 cm x 24.3 cm. 2 L., 2 pp. Lead sheet. Words and Music by Peppy Prince.

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Ink MS. 31.8 cm x 23.7 cm. 2 L., 3 pp. Full score. Keyboard and melody. Words and music by Elmer Toyer and Kenneth Weaver. Unpublished first score sent to Joe Thomas.

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Ink MS. 31.7 cm x 24.2 cm. Parts: Piano, 1 L., 1 pp. Trumpets, 2 L., 2 pp. Tenor saxophone, 2 L., 2 pp. Annotations in pencil and red pencil. Musical fragment in ink at end of trumpet score. Note on performance sequence [in pencil] on tenor saxophone score.

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Pencil MS. 31.4 cm x 23.8 cm. 1 L., 1 pp. Notates chord changes as a sequence of borrowed jazz songs.

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Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra materials: 1 souvenir postcard, 1 Armed Forces Radio Service radio transcript, 4 record catalogs, 4 performance programs, 3 performance running orders, 2 flyers, and 2 advertisements.