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Since 1994, the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College has been open to the public. After Lucille Armstrong passed away in 1983, the Armstrong house was discovered to be filled with Louis’s personal belongings. As a result of this discovery, the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, which manages Louis’s estate, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs chose Queens College to be caretakers of this treasure trove. On his first day of work in 1991, Michael Cogswell (now the Director of the Louis Armstrong House & Archives) was greeted by 72 shipping cartons of Satchmo’s personal artifacts. Arranging, preserving, and cataloguing the contents of the Armstrong House took three years. Today, the Louis Armstrong Archives is the first stop for hundreds of researchers from all over the world. Besides individuals doing personal or academic research, hundreds of record companies, publishers, and TV/film productions have used material from the Archives.
If you would like to delve deeper into Louis’s huge collection of treasures, you are welcome to do research. We are open to the public, and you do not have to be a Queens College student, academic scholar or working journalist to visit the Archives. The Louis Armstrong Archives is open to everyone to listen to Louis’s home-recorded tapes, read his personal manuscripts, study sheet music, view videos and photographs, etc. All we ask is that you bring a photo ID, and that you beforehand and make an appointment, to insure that our staff members are available to assist you. Directions can be found here.
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