Image: W. C. Handy (1949 portrait with trumpet)

Description: Photo portrait of American composer W. C. Handy playing trumpet in his office above Times Square on November 11, 1949. Original caption: .mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}Father of 'The St. Louis Blues' — With all the skill of his younger days, 76-year-old W. C. Handy, father of 'The St. Louis Blues,' blows his trumpet in his New York music publishing office, with Times Square shown in background. Despite his blindness—he's been blind for several years—he makes frequent appearances at benefits and concerts.
Title: W. C. Handy (1949 portrait with trumpet)
Credit: Per a listing at WorthPoint, the photograph was created and distributed by Wide World Photos, a photo news agency owned by the Associated Press after 1941 (source). Retouched by uploader; see unretouched original in upload history below.
Author: Wide World Photos. Photographer uncredited.
Permission: This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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License: Public domain
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