<I>Saint Louis Blues</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1914
name: label: Written by
content: W. C. Handy, American, 1873 - 1958
notes: label: Description
content: 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".
place: label: Place depicted
content: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Written Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paxton and Rachel Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.3.22
objectType: label: Type
content: sheet music
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: closed: 12 1/8 × 9 1/4 × 1/16 in. (30.8 × 23.5 × 0.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: open: 12 1/8 × 18 5/16 × 1/16 in. (30.8 × 46.5 × 0.2 cm)