Flute section, Sousa Band

Herb, William (active ca. 1904-1932)


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
ca. 1920-1929
Technique / Medium:
photography

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    William Herb Papers, Sousa Band Uniform and Travel Trunk, 1924-1980Location Details -- William Herb Papers, Sousa Band Uniform and Travel Trunk, 1924-1980 > Series 1: Photographs and Digital Images, 1924-1936 > Sub-Series 2: Band Members and Musicians > ElectronicFolder 2 > Item 94: Flute section, Sousa Band, ca. 1920s. Digital image accession file: 2006-1209102-094.tif.

Description

Photograph of the Sousa Band's flute section, numbering six members at the time. Players are standing in a row in uniform with their flutes in hand. Photo was taken near the side of an unidentified brick building (the same structure may be found in RIdIM entry 4825).

People as subjects

Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932)

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flute [3955] (The typical maximum number of flutes in the Sousa Band was six members, although in some instances this number would be reduced to four or five (Bierley).)

RIdIM images


William Herb Papers, Sousa Band Uniform and Travel Trunk, 1924-1980, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Image URLs

image link 1
Sousa Archives data and image

Bibliographic references

Bierley, Paul Edmund. The incredible band of John Philip Sousa (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006) 251-252. ISBN 0252031474. RILM 2006-04359.

Notes

William Herb served in the Sousa Band as a tubist from 1924 to 1932 (the year of Sousa's death).

RIdIM record id

4770