Oboe section, Sousa Band

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Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
1923-1924
Technique / Medium:
photography

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    Location Details -- Paul E Bierley Papers, 1864-2015 > 6: Photographs, 1864-2013 > Sub-Series 1: Digital Photographs, 1864-1964 > Box 131 > Folder 1: Digital Photographs > Item 4: Sousa Band oboe section (Anton N. Maly, George A. Abeel and Paul Oscar Gerhardt), ca. 1923-1924. Digital image accession file: 2007-1209094-004.tif

Description

Photo of the three oboists in the Sousa Band during 1923 and 1924: Anton N. Maly (1921-26), George A. Abneel (1920-24), and Paul Oscar Gerhardt (1915, 1920-26 and radio 1931). The members are posed in uniform with their instruments in front of an unidentified gazebo. Each man and their years of activity in the band is labeled below in the margins of the photograph, with the approximate year of the image written at the top.

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Oboe [4232] (The Sousa Band alternated between two and three oboists throughout its activity. The band switched from normally having two players to three in 1921, and returned to two during 1925 (Bierley).)

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) 251-252. ISBN 0252031474. RILM 2006-04359.

Notes

Item is titled as "Sousa Band oboe section: Anton N. Maly (1921-26), George A. Abeel (1920-24), and Paul Oscar Gerhardt (1915, 1920-26 and radio 1931)" in the Sousa Archives.

RIdIM record id

4811