Sousa Band at New York Hippodrome

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Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
1922
Technique / Medium:
photography
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 6: Sousa Band Photographs and Sousa with Others > Box 146 > Folder 1: Sousa Photo Album (2 of 2) - Annotated copies of photos/articles from newspaper clippings, duplicated photos of Sousa and Sousa's band, 1922-1931. Digital image accession file: 2010-1209094-024.tif

Description

The Sousa Band performing at the New York Hippodrome in 1922. Photograph was taken from the left side of the audience, showing both the band and the performance chamber. Top border of item reads: "Courtesy Ollie Graham" and bottom border reads "Sousa's Band at the New York Hippodrome Sousa's [repeated stamp label at end]".

People as subjects

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

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument
48A721
theatre (building)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Wind instruments [3730]
Xylophone [3099] (Instrument is located directly in front of conductor's podium on the stage.)

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) 32. 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) 104. ISBN 9781579998837. RILM 2012-14284.

Sousa, John Philip. Marching along: recollections of men, women, and music. Edited by Paul E. Bierley (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1994) 330A. ISBN 0918048117. RILM 1995-8802.

Notes

The photograph depicts a performance at the Hippodrome during one of two possible dates in 1922: March 5th or November 5th.

RIdIM record id

4782