Charles T. (Ted) Grubb Papers

Contains photographs, scrapbooks, and papers from Charles Theodore Grubb, "Ted". Grubb was born October 27, 1903 in Connersville, Indiana. He was the younger son of Charles E. and Mary Bateman Grubb. His brother was Eber B. Grubb (1899-?) who also played an instrument and for a time had his own band, the Rhythm Rustlers "Rogues of Music". Grubb learned to play the trumpet and as a young man was a member of the Indianapolis News, News Boys' Band. Ted continued his career in music until the 1950s performing with orchestras in Indianapolis, Louisville, and Florida as well as other venues. Among the orchestras he performed with are The Royal Peacock Orchestra (Indianapolis, Indiana), the Reynolds-Kent Orchestra (Louisville, Kentucky), and the WHAS Radio Studio Orchestra (Louisville, Kentucky). It was during his tenure with the Reynolds-Kent Orchestra that he came to know the singer Dick Powell (Richard Ewing Powell) (1904-1963). Powell eventually went on to become a major motion-picture and television personality. Grubb was a member of the Musicians' Mutual Protective Association. Grubb settled in Jeffersontown, Kentucky and died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on September 4, 1982. This series contains photographs and two scrapbooks containing small format photographs and paper ephemera from Grubb's travels with various orchestras, studio photographs of orchestras and peformers, autographed studio portraits of vaudeville acts including one of Leon LeVerde, an early female impersonator, an autographed studio portrait of Dick Powell and his first wife, Mildred Maund. There is also a small amount of correspondence including items from Duncan Schiedt and Grubb's son, Nathaniel, and two issues of The Louisville Musician from 1963 with a tribute to assassinated President John F. Kennedy and an issue from 1972.