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Key People

A ragtime celebrity

Eubie Blake

American musician

William Bolcom

William Bolcom

American composer

King of ragtime

Scott Joplin

American composer and musician

Portrait of American composer W.C. Handy in a tuxedo, seated with one hand resting on a trumpet case, circa 1930s.

W.C. Handy

American composer

Harlem Hellfighters

James Reese Europe

American composer and bandleader

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

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