University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Doc Cheatham papers
Cheatham, Doc
IJC MG 008
2 cubic feet
1892-1995
Doc Cheatham was a jazz trumpet player. The papers contain photographs, autobiography, manuscript scores, audiotapes, clothing, and miscellaneous items.
This collection is in English.
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, known as Doc Cheatham, was a trumpet player. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 13, 1905 and died on June 2, 1997.
The Doc Cheatham papers include a variety of items with significant chronological gaps. The oldest item is a photograph from 1892 of a group of people including Cheatham's mother, Alice, posing on the stairs of a brick building identified as the Allen Temple, Atlanta, Georgia. The most recent items refer to his 90th Birthday celebration in 1995.
This manuscript group is part of the International Jazz Collections-IJC.
The collection is open to the public. Researchers must use the collection in accordance with the policies of the University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives.
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Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.
Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.
Gift, Doc Cheatham's widow, Amanda Cheatham, 2002.
Processed in April 2012.
Some of the materials in this collection were digitized and made into the Doc Cheatham Collection by 2023 IJC Berry Fellow, Esther David.
Cheatham, Doc--Archives
Cheatham, Amanda
Jazz--History--20th century--Sources
Jazz musicians--United States--Archives
African Americans
Music
Photographs
I
Doc Cheatham's 90th Birthday
1995
1
1
Miscellaneous
1
2
Alice Anthony and family
1892
1
3
The Sound of Jazz TV Program (CBS)
1
4
Doc Cheatham with the Sweet Basil Quartet
undated
1
4
Doc Cheatham
undated
1
4
Doc Cheatham sitting
1
4
Doc Cheatham (with camera) with Wilbur de Paris's band in Nigeria
1937
1
4
Doc Cheatham, family, and others
1934
1
4
Eddie Barefield and Doc Cheatham in Florida
undated
1
4
Alice Anthony Cheatham and Marshall Nye Cheatham portrait
undated
1
4
Doc Cheatham with Milt Hinton
undated
1
4
Doc's Sweet Basil Quartet
1997
1
4
Papers
II
Newspaper Clippings
1
5
Special Limited Edition Advance Proof - For the Occasion of Doc Cheatham's 90th Birthday
13 June 1995
1
6
Music Sheets
1
7
Music writing book with music sheets
1
8
Posters
III
Art of various jazz musicians
undated
2 copies. One framed, one unframed.
1
1
Doc Cheatham 90th birthday poster
1995
1
2
Doc Cheatham portrait
undated
1
3
Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton poster
1
4
Miscellaneous
IV
Cab Calloway Broadcast
Shamrock recording reel-to-reel tape.
1
5
Jazz Arrive! (National Public Radio)
1981
Reel-to-reel tape.
1
6-7
Textiles
V
Brigade Unlimited short sleeve shirt with shirttail hem
Label: Brigade Unlimited
2
Supreme Men's Shop, Broadway New York black wool tuxedo jacket
2
Palm Beach Formal Fashions black wool tuxedo trousers
2
Black suspenders
2
Navy blue suspenders with rainbow color hot air balloons motif
2
Bow tie, yellow/ecru foulard, silk
2
Bergdorf Goodman white bow tie
2
Kangol, Exmoor style olive green poplin cap
2
Knit Maker Inverness Scotland green and brown wool cap
2
Instrument Equipment
VI
Plunger mute
3
Cup mute
3
Metal trumpet mouthpieces (2)
3
Blue trumpet snake cleaner
3