Tuba section, Sousa Band

Unknown


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
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 90: Tuba section, Sousa Band, ca. 1920s. Digital image accession file: 2006-1209102-090.tif

Description

Photograph of the Sousa Band's tuba section, numbering five members at the time. Players are standing in a row in uniform with their tubas in hand. Photo was taken near the side of an unidentified brick building (the same structure may be found in RIdIM item 4770).

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tuba [4467] (The total number of tubists in the Sousa Band shifted frequently throughout its lifetime. During the first half of the 1920s, it reached its highest, most stable period with five to six members on average (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.

RIdIM record id

4825