Saxophone section, Sousa Band, location unidentified

Herb, William (active ca. 1904-1932) (attributed to)


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

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    Location 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 93: Saxophone section, Sousa Band, unidentified location, ca. 1920s. Digital image accession file: 2006-1209102-093.tif

Description

Image of the seven-member saxophone section of the Sousa Band with instruments in-hand. Multiple saxophone types are present.

People as subjects

Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932)

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Saxophone [4346] (Sousa's Band typically included eight total saxophonists during the 1920s. This number would be reduced to six in 1929 and again in 1932 to four (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

4780