Image of dancer Tammi True on stage at the Carousel Club

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Image of dancer Tammi True on stage at the Carousel Club

35mm color negative showing Tammi True performing on stage at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in downtown Dallas. Also visible is the back half of the carousel horse carving that is the background for the club's stage.Joe Hathaway, the photographer and donor of this collection, was a young man working at a camera counter in the early 1960s when he met Jack Ruby. Ruby invited him to come to the club and take pictures of the performers to be used in future publicity materials.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of dancer Tammi True on stage at the Carousel Club

Date:

1962 - 1963

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.7 x 2.4 cm)

Credit line:

Joe Hathaway Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2009.016.0001.0001

Curatorial Note:

Tammi True was one of the Carousel Club's headliners in 1963. Her real name was Nancy Myers and she shared her memories of Jack Ruby in an oral history with the Museum in 2010. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator

Image of dancer Tammi True on stage at the Carousel Club

35mm color negative showing Tammi True performing on stage at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in downtown Dallas. Also visible is the back half of the carousel horse carving that is the background for the club's stage.Joe Hathaway, the photographer and donor of this collection, was a young man working at a camera counter in the early 1960s when he met Jack Ruby. Ruby invited him to come to the club and take pictures of the performers to be used in future publicity materials.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of dancer Tammi True on stage at the Carousel Club

Date:

1962 - 1963

Terms:

Night clubs

True, Tammi

Hathaway, Joe

Ruby, Jack

Carousel Club

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.7 x 2.4 cm)

Credit line:

Joe Hathaway Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2009.016.0001.0001

Curatorial Note:

Tammi True was one of the Carousel Club's headliners in 1963. Her real name was Nancy Myers and she shared her memories of Jack Ruby in an oral history with the Museum in 2010. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator