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Jazz musician William Manuel "Bill" Johnson, 1909.

Scanned from "Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band" by Lawrence Gushee, Oxford University Press, 2005. Image previously published in the October, 1909 issue of "The Referee"; by US law public domain by reason of expired copyright. It is highly unlikely that any foreign copyrights were ever filed.

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