Edwin Coates, music teacher and husband of Helena Harper Coates, 1940-1950

Title: Edwin Coates, music teacher and husband of Helena Harper Coates, 1940-1950
Alternative title: Danley family, original small photos; Edwin and Helena Harper Coates
Date Created: [1940-1950]
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Studio portrait of Edwin Coates.
Edwin Coates (Charles Edwin Coates) was a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music in New York. In 1917, he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art, which was founded and directed by Frank Heino Damrosch, and which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School. In 1938 he married social worker Helena Hester Harper, the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies.
Caption: Written on back of photo: He is not really this ugly but you know he is your loving Uncle Eddie.

Genre: Portrait photographs
: African American music teachers
Names: Juilliard School
Coates, Edwin, 1895-1989
Martin-Smith School of Music (New York, N.Y.)
Resource type: still image