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Unless otherwise noted, the images in this site are from the Duke Ellington Collection at the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. For more information about them, please click here.

 

Ellington in Hollywood.

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In Denver, 1942. Junior Raglin can be seen behind Ellington.

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Duke in 1903, at age four.

Ruth Ellington Collection

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An ad from the Washington, DC phone book.

 

 

 

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The Howard Theatre, one of the places Ellington played in his early years in Washington.

 

 

 

 

 

Edna Ellington, Duke's wife, in 1918.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Washingtonians, 1920.

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Duke and Fred Guy in 1923.

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Sheet music cover for Choo-Choo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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