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Ella Briggs
Ella Briggs (née Baumfeld; 5 March 1880 – 20 June 1977) was an Austrian architect.
Life.
Ella Baumfeld was born in Vienna on 5 March 1880, the daughter of a lawyer. As women were not allowed to study architecture under the German Empire, she studied at the painting school of the Wiener Frauenerwerbsvereines (Viennese Women's Employment Association) with Adalbert Seligmann and later at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with various teachers.
Baumfeld travelled to the United States in 1903. She
Pete Briggs
Pete Briggs (born 1904, date of death unknown) was an American jazz bass and tuba player.
Briggs was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was related to bandleader Arthur Briggs. He first played professionally in the early 1920s with the Jim Jam Jazzers, and soon after played with the Lucky Boy Minstrels. In 1926 he moved to Chicago, playing with Carroll Dickerson, Jimmie Noone, and Louis Armstrong, with whom he recorded copiously. Briggs appears on many of the Hot Seven recordings made with