Images from 1938
Daily Texan, March 11, 1938.
Two UT students explain the jitterbug and other Swing terminology in the Daily Texan (June 7, 1938).
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Gregory Gym, 1938 The Cactus, 1938
Joe Reichman and His Orchestra, Gregory Gym, 1938 The Cactus, 1939
Tommie Brooks and the Samuel Huston Swingsters San Antonio Register (May 12, 1938)
Duke Ellington, 1938 - 1948 William P. Gottlieb, Portrait of Duke Ellington, Washington, D.C., Between 1938 and 1948. United States, 1938. , Monographic. Photograph.
Duke Ellington Orchestra, between 1938 and 1948 William P. Gottlieb, Portrait of Duke Ellington, Junior Raglin, Tricky Sam Nanton?, Juan Tizol, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Otto Toby Hardwicke, Harry Carney, Rex William Stewart, and Sonny Greer, Howard Theater?, Washington, D.C., Between 1938 and 1948. United States, 1938. Monographic. Photograph.
Daily Texan (March 11, 1938)
Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, KGKO 1938 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. “W. Lee O’Daniel’s country-and-western group ‘The Hillbilly Boys’ performing at KGKO.” UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1938. Accessed December 17, 2020.
Ad for Steve Lightsey gig at the short-lived Western night club, The Wagon Wheel. Austin Statesman (July 30, 1938).
The earliest documentation of Johnny Simmons's orchestra, the “Blue Devils,” at a 1938 dance at the Cotton Club. Daily Texan March 8, 1938, 2.
