John Philip Sousa Band, Admiral Dewey's Victory Parade, New York, NY

Abert, Helen (1887-1975) (attributed to)


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
1899
Height:
20.3 cm  (8 in.)
Width:
25.4 cm  (10 in.)
Technique / Medium:
photography, gelatin silver print
Place of creation:
New York (New York, United States)

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    Location Details -- Paul E Bierley Papers, 1864-2015 > Series 6: Photographs, 1864-2013 > Sub-Series 1: Digital Photographs, 1864-1964 > Box 131 > Folder 1: Digital Photographs > Item 58: John Philip Sousa Band, Admiral Dewey's Victory Parade, New York, NY, September 30, 1899. Digital image accession file: 2007-1209094-058.tif

Description

Photograph of the Sousa Band marching and playing during Admiral Dewey's two-day Victory Parade, celebrating his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. Caption on left border of photograph reads: "Admiral Dewey's / Victory Parade / New York, NY / 30 Sept. 1899"

People as subjects

Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932) (Conductor)

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument
45B51
military parade, pageant

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Wind instruments [3730]

RIdIM images


Paul E Bierley Papers, 1864-2015, 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) 24. ISBN 0252031474. RILM 2006-04359.

Sousa, John Philip IV and Loras John Schissel. John Philip Sousa's America: The patriot's life in images and words (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2012) 53. ISBN 9781579998837. RILM 2012-14284.

Notes

Photograph source: Mrs. Abert 1890s Photos Notebook. Helen Sousa Abert was Sousa's daughter.

RIdIM record id

4775