The Robert G. Hilbert Collection

The Robert G. Hilbert Collection contains books about and commercial recordings by Louis Armstrong.  Hilbert was the longtime President of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors. He spent 22 years as Audio-Visual Director at Miami-Dade Community College, managing to start the Jazz Collectors Society of South Florida while living in Florida. As the President of Pumpkin Productions, he issued many rare jazz treasures, including some by Louis Armstrong. A prolific writer, Hilbert wrote many books, including the critically-acclaimed biography, Pee Wee Russell: The Life of a Jazzman. He died in 1993 at the age of 54. Ten years later, his daughter, Miriam Hilbert, donated his Louis Armstrong record and book collection to the Louis Armstrong House Museum.