Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Contact sheet of photographs of Nat King Cole playing the piano
1930-1965
United States, North and Central America
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 sheet of twelve black and white photos with Nat King Cole. Each photo is numbered at the top right corner in white. Image number one depicts Nat King Cole sitting down playing the piano with two men and two women behind him. The next photo to the right, number four, also depicts Nat King Cole playing piano but now with two women and one man behind him. The next photo to the right depicts a different man playing piano with two women behind him. The final photo to the right depicts a man smiling while two women sit at a table. Starting in the middle row to the far left, image two, is Nat King Cole playing the piano with two men and two women behind him almost identical to the very first photo.
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Catalog reference: 2013.118.191.9
