Employees at the Pace & Handy Music Co. including William Grant Still, New York, 1920

Title: Employees at the Pace & Handy Music Co. including William Grant Still, New York, 1920
Alternative title: W.C. Handy, blues composer and musician
Date Created: 1920
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Employees in the office of the Pace & Handy Music Co. Daniel F. Haynes, head of bookkeeping, is at the cash register and William Grant Still is seated in front of him. Charlie Handie, vice president and sales manager, brother of owner William Handy, is seated on the right. The two women typing are Carrie Collins, who headed the professional and shipping departments, and Adele.
William Christopher Handy was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues. An African American, Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States.
Caption: Typescript on photo: Made in 1920 / Pace & Handy Music Co., Inc. / Gaiety Theatre Building / 1545 Broadway, New York, N.Y. / Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc. Successors

Genre: photographs
Subject topic: African American musicians
African American businesspeople
Music publishers
Names: Still, William Grant, 1895-1978
Pace & Handy Music Co. (New York, N.Y)
Handy, Charles Eugene, 1889-1980
Haynes, Daniel F., B. 1887 or 88
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
Collins, Carie
Subject geographic: New York (N.Y.)
Longitude: 40.758458
Latitude: -73.985344
Resource type: still image