Tin Pan Alley: Quick Facts

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Historic view of Tin Pan Alley music publishing storefronts on West 28th Street in New York City, including Jerome H. Remick and Company, Whitney Warner Music, and the William Morris Agency.

Sheet music cover for Give My Regards to Broadway, showing George M. Cohan as a cane-carrying comedian and text crediting words and music by George M. Cohan.

Ira Gershwin writes at a table covered with papers while George Gershwin plays piano beside him; both wear dress shirts and ties in a 1930s interior.

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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

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