Sousa Band at Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Strothkamp, Charles (1896-1983) (attributed to)


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
1930
Technique / Medium:
photography
Place of creation:
Atlantic City (New Jersey, United States)

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    Location Details -- Charles Strothkamp Papers, 1896-1983 > Series 3: Scrapbooks & Photographs, ca. 1896-1983 > Box 4 > Folder 2: Scrapbook 3, February 2, 1929-November 9, 1930. Digital image accession file: 2012-1209128-001.tif

Description

Photograph of John Philip Sousa and his band at the Steel Pier amusement park along New Jersey's eastern coastline. Band is present in the left of the photo, with several wind and brass instruments visible.

People as subjects

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

Iconclass

43B421
bandstand
43B2
open-air recreation

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flute [3955]
Clarinet [3836]
Trumpet [4446]
Cornet [3860]

RIdIM images


Charles Strothkamp Papers, 1896-1983, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Image URLs

image link 1
Sousa Archives data and image

Notes

Charles Strothkamp Jr. was a B-flat clarinetist active in the Sousa Band beginning in the mid-1920s into the early 1930s.

RIdIM record id

4784