Sousa Band standing in front of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD

Unknown


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
1907
Technique / Medium:
photography
Place of creation:
Mitchell (South Dakota, 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 77: Sousa Band standing in front of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD, September 1907. Digital image accession file: 2007-1209094-077.tif

Description

Photo of the Sousa Band in front of the Corn Palace of Mitchell, South Dakota. Image features the band members sitting with instruments. A caption located on the lower portion of the image reads "Sousa and His Band / at Corn Palace (entirely built of Corn)."

People as subjects

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

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

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) 29. 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) 64. ISBN 9781579998837. RILM 2012-14284.

Notes

As mentioned by Paul Bierley in his book "The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa", this photograph marks the second of four total visits to the Corn Palace by the Sousa Band.

RIdIM record id

4818