Saint Louis Blues
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Object Details
- Written by
- W. C. Handy, American, 1873 - 1958
- Description
- A signed copy of WC Handy's Saint Louis Blues sheet music. Front cover, light blue with a black-and-white depiction of two men by a river filled with various sized boats at the center, with [WC Handy's] at the top center in white, with [SAINT LOUIS BLUES] in black underneath, and [City of / St. Louis / 1872] in black ink in a white elaborate circle underneath the depiction, with Handy Brothers Music Co. Inc. logo and address below at the center. White elaborate line decoration as border of front cover. Interior is off-white with black type. Music sheet on interior of front and back covers, with one single sheet of interior paper, with front and back as music sheets. Footer on first interior page reads [Copyright MCMXIV by W.C. Handy / Published by Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc., 1587 Broadway, N.Y.C. / International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved]. Back cover is an excerpt from W.C. Handy's "The Memphis Blues".
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paxton and Rachel Baker
- 1914
- Object number
- 2014.3.22
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- sheet music
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- closed: 12 1/8 × 9 1/4 × 1/16 in. (30.8 × 23.5 × 0.2 cm)
- open: 12 1/8 × 18 5/16 × 1/16 in. (30.8 × 46.5 × 0.2 cm)
- Place depicted
- Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Documents and Published Materials-Sheet music
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.3.22
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd58bdba0fe-fe7b-499e-98d8-bbf152b00931
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