[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong's Social Security Number application

[Anton Crouch]

Hello all

Three cheers for Rae Ann Berry, Håkan Forsberg and Ricky Riccardi. Even 
though the Social Security Number application doesn't resolve the issue 
of which birth date Armstrong believed, it's wonderful to have the 
document. And it was there in the Armstrong House Museum all the time.

It's existence can be verified by going to the Museum site:

http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/collections/online_catalog.htm

Click on "keyword search"; enter 2001.91.1; click "search"

There is no graphic but there may be a way to get it posted to a site 
accessible to DJMLers.

For those interested in the minutiae of Armstrong's life, the 
application was made in Los Angeles on 25 May 1937 when Armstrong was in 
Hollywood to record a number for the Paramount picture /Artists and 
models/. Details of the recording session are given in Jos Willems' 
discography (page105).

All the best,
Anton