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Description "Maple Leaf Rag" first edition sheet music. Cover page: part 1 of 4. Depicted in the image are a sketch of vaudeville entertainers Bert Williams and George Walker with their future wives Aida Overton Walker and Lottie Thompson Williams dancing the cakewalk.
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Source Library of Congress Call Number M31.J case[1]; for information about the people depicted in the sheet music see King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era By Edward A. Berlin, 1996, Oxford University Press, page 59
Author Scott Joplin
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The author died in 1917, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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