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Why Is There Air?

1965

Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A 33 1/3 rpm LP vinyl disc (a) and cardboard jacket (b) for the comedy album Why Is There Air? by Bill Cosby. The black vinyl disc (a) has gold labels with the Warner Brothers logo, album title, artist, and track listing. The jacket cover (b) has a color photograph of Bill Cosby standing against a plain white background. He wears a white, short-sleeved Temple University sweatshirt with white and blue stripes around the neck and sleeves. He is looking towards the camera and smiling, while holding a white volleyball in his upturned proper left hand. Across the top is [BILL COSBY] in blue and [WHY IS THERE AIR?] in red, next to the Warner Brothers logo in blue. The back cover is black ink on a white background and includes a black-and-white portrait of Cosby along with the track listing and a short summary of the album material.

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Catalog reference: 2011.173.40ab

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