Photo Gallery New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and former Mayor James J. Walker lead ninety honorary pallbearers out of Temple Emanu-El, June 9, 1936. (The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York) The Burkan family, circa 1888. Nathan, age ten, is on the right. (Courtesy, Nathan Burkan Jr.) The arrival of a Lambs Club All-Star Gambol, led by music director Victor Herbert and his fifty-piece brass band, was a spectacle not soon forgotten. (Chicago Tribune) Burkan and the Music Publishers Association made Garrett J. Couchois an example for all sheet music counterfeiters. (Music Trade Review) The Music Publishers Association feted Irish MP “Tay Pay” O’Connor on October 19, 1906, an event that heralded the arrival of the music industry as an effective political force. (Music Trade Review) Burkan, age thirty-six, as a delegate to the 1915 New York State constitutional convention. (Courtesy, Nathan Burkan Jr.) (Image digitized by Cineteca di Bologna as part of the Chaplin Project. © Roy Export Company Ltd.) A lobby poster for a spurious Charlie Chaplin film that Burkan described as “vulgar, suggestive, and obscene,” 1917. Charlie Chaplin applies his signature to the main title card for Shoulder Arms, 1918. (© Roy Export Company Ltd.) Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin, and Burkan―his pockets bulging with contracts―at the newly built Chaplin Studio, circa 1918. (Courtesy, Nathan Burkan Jr.) Toastmaster Victor Herbert (in front of mirror) is flanked to his right by President George Maxwell and to his left by General Counsel Nathan Burkan, the guests of honor at Ascap’s first annual dinner, November 29, 1914. (Library of Congress, Victor Herbert Collection) Ascap’s delegation to congressional hearings on the “Dill Free Radio Music Bill,” April 1924. The first annual meeting of the United Artists Corporation, April 1919. (Mary Pickford Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) Charlie Chaplin meets the press under Burkan’s watchful eye, January 22, 1927. (Queens Borough Public Library Archives, New York Herald–Tribune Photo Morgue Collection) Lita Grey Chaplin poses after the final divorce hearing, August 22, 1927. (© Roy Export Company Ltd.) Mae West draws a crowd as she and Burkan leave court after first day of jury selection, March 17, 1930. (New York Evening Graphic) “Blue Bloods Meet the Hoi Polloi.” Nathan Burkan and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt confer, October 17m 1934. (Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations) Nathan Burkans, Sr. and Jr., summer 1935, at the Great Neck mansion. (Courtesy, Nathan Burkan Jr.) Nathan Burkan before the House Patents Committee, February 25, 1936. (Queens Borough Public Library Archives, New York Herald–Tribune Photo Morgue Collection) Nathan Burkan, circa 1932 (Courtesy, Nathan Burkan, Jr.) Times Square from the Continental Building, 1932 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection)
