Museum object · Written Music
St. Louis Blues
1928
1545 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Sheet music for the song St. Louis Blues by W. C. Handy. The cover is orange with black text. Written in the center of the page is: [featured in Lew Leslie's Black birds of 1928.] An image of three birds on a branch is below this. Written at the bottom of the page is: [Published by / HANDY BORS MUSIC CO. Inc / “Home of the Blues” / 1545 Broadway New York.
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Catalog reference: 2012.77