Object Details
- presenter
- Billboard Magazine
- recipient
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Description
This award was presented to Ella Fitzgerald by Billboard magazine in 1965. It is a two-piece abstract wooden base with a silver-tone oil lamp, a metal medallion, and a metal plate at the base. The metal medallion is printed:
Billboard Award
FOR
OUTSTANDING ACHEIVEMENT(and the metal plate is engraved):
ELLA FITZGERALD
Voted by American College Students
FAVORITE FEMALE VOCALIST – JAZZ
Annual Billboard College Campus Record Artist Popularity Poll
1965- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
- presentation date
- 1965
- ID Number
- 1996.0342.069
- accession number
- 1996.0342
- catalog number
- 1996.0342.069
- Object Name
- award
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 in x 7 3/4 in x 5 7/16 in; 30.48 cm x 19.685 cm x 13.81125 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Jazz
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Awards and Prizes
- Record ID
- nmah_1190834
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-080a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
