T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc.
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T. B. Harms & Francis, Day, & Hunter, Inc., based in the Tin Pan Alley area of New York City, was one of the seven largest publishers of popular music in the world in 1920. T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc. was one of seven defendants named in a 1920 Sherman antitrust suit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice for controlling 80% of the music publishing business.[1] The seven defendants were:
- Consolidated Music Corporation – 144 W. 37th St., New York, New York
- Irving Berlin, Inc. – 1567 Broadway, New York, New York
- Leo Feist, Inc. – 231 W 40th St, New York, New York
- T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc. – 62 W. 45th St., New York, New York
- Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. – 218 W. 47th St., New York, New York
- Watterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. – 1571 Broadway, New York, New York (sold in bankruptcy to Mills Music in 1929)
- M. Witmark & Sons, Inc. – 144 W. 37th St, New York, New York
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Founded in 1881 as the Thomas B. Harms Music Publishing Company,[2] T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc., was eventually incorporated in New York and changed its name to Harms, Inc. in 1921.[3]