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Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra

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The Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra played on riverboats on the Mississippi in the late 1920s. A note on the verso identifies the group as the "Mississippi Six" and additionally indicates Polk Burk on drums, Stick Leins on piano, and Rex Leins on sax. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Title Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra
Index Date 1928
Date Issued 1928?
Publisher Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Provenance Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Topic Big bands
Geographic Mississippi River
Keyword 1920s
Keyword Organizations
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Genre photograph
Extent 1 sheet
Media Type image/tiff
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) grinnell:12827
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/12827
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Type of Resource still image
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