[Photographs of American musical bands].

[United States], [circa 1890-1920]

23 photographs : black and white prints ; 44 x 36 cm and smaller (in 2 boxes)

Purchased from Marc Selvaggio on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.

This material is open for research.

23 photographs of American musical bands, circa 1890-1920. Bands depicted include Angora Grotto, Seattle, Washington; Empire Band, Providence, Rhode Island; Exchange Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Fanfare Lafayette, Gardner, Massachusetts; Gouverneur Citizens’ Band, Gouverneur, New York; Harrison’s Cow-Boy Band; Killeen Band, Killeen, Texas; Leathem D. Smith Shipyard Employees Band, Sturgeon, Wisconsin; Lebanon Silver Cornet Band, Lebanon, Missouri; Liberty Cornet Band, Boyertown, Pennsylvania; Minot High School Band, Minot, North Dakota; Old Fort Plain Band, Fort Plain, New York; Penn & Lee Band, Syracuse, New York; Rosendale Plains Brass Band, Rosendale Plains, New York; Salem Town Commandery Band, Local 239, Auburn, New York; Stetson’s Military Band, Seattle Washington; Taylor’s Band, Dover, Oklahoma Territory; Tressler Orphans’ Home Band, Loysville, Pennsylvania; Turn-Verein-Vorwaerts Brass Band, Providence, Rhode Island; Ward 8 D.C., Indian Orchard, Massachusetts; and Zion Band, Marion, Ohio. Also includes a photograph of the co-ed group Community Band, Cushing, Iowa and the womens' band Parisian Red Heads.

English

January 07, 2021

Photographs of American Musical Bands. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Photographs of American Musical Bands. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.