Black and white photograph, (visible image 240 x 188 mm), SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARMSTRONG TO JACKIE MABLEY: "Best Wishes / To Jackie Mably [sic] / My very dear friend / From / Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong."

Comedian and entertainer Jackie "Moms" Mabley (1897-1975) began her career on the African American vaudeville circuit. In the mid-1920s, she made her Harlem debut at Connie's Inn and quickly became a regular performer at Harlem Renaissance hotspots Cotton Club and Club Harlem where she developed her "Moms" character. It was here where she first met and performed alongside Armstrong, as well Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and other jazz greats.