United States of America Many early American bands were brass-only ensembles, others included various woodwind instruments in precursors of the traditional marching or concert band instrumentation. Examples of the latter are also included here. - Further details available on these pictures - links to further information See also: History of individual bands If you have any pictures you would like to submit, or have any comments or information about any of the pictures or bands here, please email gavin@ibew.co.uk

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Alabama

Birmingham Fire Dept. Band Confederate Veterans Band, Birmingham First Calvalry Band, 1918

Thorsby Cornet Band, 1907 Tuskegee Institute Band, 1914 US Army Band, Camp Sheridan

Alaska

Fairbanks City Band Hydaburg Band Indian Band, Juneau Juneau Native Band Juneau Native Band (Thlinget Band), 1907

Metlakahtla Cornet Band Metlakahtla Concert Band Sitka Band Unknown Band Unknown Band

Arizona

Arizona Indians Band, c.1900 Globe City Band Indian School Band, Phoenix Indian School Band, Phoenix, 1915

Prescott Band Prescott Band, 1910 Unknown Band Yuma Indian Band

Arkansas

1st Regiment Band, Russellville, 1908 Arkansas City High School Band, 1908 Commercial League Band, Fayetteville, 1908 Family Band Fayetteville Commercial League Band, at Monte Ne, 1908 Fordyce Concert Band, 1890

Huntington Cornet Band, 1916 Leola Band, 1910 Miners' Band, Eureka Springs, 1880s Paragould Band, 1890s Unknown Band

California

5th Regiment Band, San Jose Ashland Band Band, Covelo Band, Covelo Band, Covelo, 1914 Band, Gonzales, 1915 Band, San Jose Banning Indian School Band, 1907 Benicia City Band Bridgport Band, Mono County, 1906 Cadet Band, University of California, Berkeley, 1916 Camptonville Brass Band Catalina Island Band, 1906 Circus Clown Band Citrus Brass Band, Oroville, 1889 Claremont Band Clown Band Colusa Band, 1911 Dreamland Boys Band, Redding Dutch Flat Band Ed Wheaton Brass Band, Soquel, 1892 Eden Valley Cornet Band Exeter Juvenile Band, 1910 Fall River Band, 1915 Finnish Sulo Band, Fort Bragg Folsom Band Fullerton Military Band, 1913 Germantown Cornet Band, Glen County, 1913 Hammonton Band Hilmar Colony Band, 1910 Horn's Military Band, Oxnard Iannuzziello's Band, San Diego Indian Band, Needles, 1910 Inglewood Salvation Army Band Inglewood SA Band I.O.O.F. Home Boys' Band, Gilroy, 1912 Keller's Band, Ukiah La Grange Band, 1896 La Monaca Band, Santa Barbara Lake Elsinore Concert Band Lompoc Boys Brass Band Los Angeles Band

Los Angeles Citadel Band, 1925 Los Angeles Citadel Band, 1930s Los Angeles Citadel Band, trip to Phoenix, 1946 Los Angeles Citadel Band, with Albert Einstein, 1932 Los Angeles Congress Hall Band, 1962 Los Angeles Congress Hall Band, 1960 Los Angeles Tabernacle Band, with Eric Ball, 1957 Lytton Home Salvation Army Band, 1910 Lytton Home Salvation Army Band, Lytton Springs Merced Concert Band Merced Concert Band, Kelseyville Moose Band, San Rafael Municipal Band, Long Beach, 1916 Native Son Band, Sacramento Nevada City Boys Band, 1905 Oakland Citadel Band, 1988 Ohemeyer's Tent City Band, Coronada, San Diego Richland Cornet Band, Rocklin Band, 1911 Rocklin Town Band, Placer County San Bernardino Cadet Band San Quentin Prison Band, 1880 San Quentin Prison Band, 1912 Santa Maria Concert Band, 1908 Schillerbund Brass Band, San Francisco Southern Pacific Railway Co. Band, Shasta, 1880s Stanford Band, Pasadena, 1913 Stockton Amateur Band, c.1895 Student Youth of America Band, Marin County Sullivan Band, 1909 Susanville Town Band, 1870s Thornton Brass Band Tulare City Military Band, 1880s Whittier State School Band Weaverville Band Weaverville Band, Trinity County Wirth Concert Band Unknown Band Unknown Band Unknown Band

Colorado

Band, Eastonville Band parade, Cripple Creek, 1915 Colorado Midland Band Denver Band Denver Post Boys Band Denver Post Boys Band Greely Concert Band Ladies Band, Rifle Lamar Band, 1908

Lincoln Military Band, Mount Airy, Denver Monrovia City Band, 1890 Montrose Band, 1905 Salvation Army Band, Canon City Union Pacific Shop Employe's Band, Denver Unknown Band Women's Band, 1910

Connecticut

2nd Regisment Band, Branford, 1888 Ansonia Band Band, Guilford Band, Longhill, 1906 Band, Thomaston, 1890 Boys Club Band, Waterbury, 1913 Coast Artillery Band, Bridgeport Connecticut Agricultural College Cadet Band Connecticut Agricultural College Cadet Band Crescent Band, Middle Haddam, 1919 East Haddam Bohemian Band East Woodstock Band German Band, Collinsville Hartford Cornet Band Hatch's Military Band, Hartford, 1908 Imperial Band, Stonington Konomoc Hose Co. Band, New London Lichfield Band

Lichfield Band Manchester SA Band Manchester Salvation Army Band Middletown Salvation Army Band Moosup National Band New Military Band, New Haven, 1908 Nonnawank Band, Seymour Polish Falcon Band, Torrington Simonds Military Band, Collinsville Slater Band, Jewett City South Manchester SA Band South Manchester SA Band Street Railway Band, Hartford Talcottville Fife and Drum Corps Band Thompsonville Cornet Band Tinney's Concert Band, Bridgeport, 1909 Tubbs' Military Band, Norwich Wheeler and Wilson Band, Bridgeport, 1908 Wheeler and Wilson Band, Bridgeport, 1910 Whilles and Wilson Band, Bridgeport, 1910

Delaware

59th Pioneer Infantry Band Browns Family Orchestra, Wilmington

Henry and Young Band, Wilmington Lewes Boys Band, 1911 Primrose and Dockstader's Minstrel Band, 1912

District Of Columbia

10th Veteran Reserve Corps Band, Washington, 1865 10th Veteran Reserve Corps Band, Washington, 1865 Marine Band

National Staff Band US Marine Band, "The President's Own"

Florida

li>1st Regimental Band, Jacksonville 9th U.S. Band, Key West Bachman's Band Band, 1894 Band, Lake Placid, 1894 Band, St Augustine Band, Winter Park, 1909 Barlow City Band Barlow Cornet Band Barlow City Band Eustis Cornet Band Florida Industrial School for Boys Band Fort Meade Band Fort Myers Brass Band Jenkin's Orphanage Band, YMCA Building, St Petersburg, 1920s Jensen Cornet Band Lakeland Band Madison Town Band Marion Cornet Band, Ocla Moncrief Park Band, Jacksonville Moses Band, Williams Park, St Petersburg Oldsmar Band

Osceola Park Band Palatka Band Sanford Band Sniders Band, Gretna Sunshine City Band, St Petersburg, 1913 Talahassee Salvation Army Band Tropical Band, Palm Beach, 1889 Unknown Band Wyers Cornet Band Yankeetown Concert Band, 1915 Zephyr Hills Citizen's Band, 1912 Zephyr Hills Citizen's Band, 1915 Zephyr Hills Citizen's Band, 1920

Georgia

Atlanta Police Band Cairo Concert Band, 1910 Camp Greenleaf Band Greensboro' Band Grovelake Concert Band, 1911 Holloway Brothers Band Company

Monticello Band, 1895 Paul Moss Orphanage and Industrial Home Band, Augusta, 1913 Salvation Army Band Salvation Army Band Starr Institute Band

Hawaii

Royal Hawaiian Band, 1907 Royal Hawaiian Band, 1910

Women's Band, SA Girls' Home, Honolulu

Idaho

Band, Twin Falls Idaho Silver Cornet Band, 1890 Idaho Silver Cornet Band, 1898 Lewiston Military Band, 1907

Pleasant Valley Cornet Band, Power County Twin Falls Boys Band, 1911 Unknown Band, 1908 Unknown Band

Illinois

1st Illinois Cavalry Band, Brownsville, Texas Abingdon Band, 1913 Adeline Band American Legion Band, Belleville, 1930 American Legion Band, Jerseyville Atlanta Band, 1911 Band, Chicago Band, Danville Band, Dwight, 1860s Band, Ilinois sports game, 1913 Band, Princeton BandRadeke Brewing Co., Kankakee Beardstown Cadet Band, 1908 Belleprairie Band, 1911 Bell's Band, Bellvidere, 1910 Bement Band Bement Band, 1910 Bement Band Boys Band, Arthur, 1908 Brooke's Marine Band, Chicago Brown County Band Brown County Band Camp 1037 MWA Band, Oquawka Capital Band, Springfield Capron Cornet Band, 1893 Carmi Band, 1907 Cave-in-Rock Band Cave in the Rock Band Cedar Point Band Charleston Band, 1910 Chicago News Boys Band, 1910 Chicago News BoysBand, Princeton Chicago Staff Band, 1909 Chicago Staff Band Christopher Concert Band Church's Band, Atlanta Clayton Independant Band, 1915 Clyde Concert Band Coffeen Cornet Band Collinsville Concert Band Collinsville Concert Band Concordia Band, Springfield Crescent Band, Springfield Crystal Lake Band, 1906 Crystal Lake Band, 1906 Crystal Lake Band, 1906 Daily News Band, Chicago Dante School's Band, Chicago, 1908 Danville Band Danville Band Davis Band, 1918 Davis City Band, 1907 Donovan Band, 1908 Du Quoin Juvenile Band Du Quoin Juvenile Band East Peoria City Band, 1909 Elgin Watch Factory Band  Elliott Manufacturing Co. Band, Warren Farmer Boys' Cornet Band, Paw Paw First Infantry Band, Chicago, 1913 Gale Band Georgetown Band, 1890 Gibler Band, Mattoon, 1916 Greater Chicago Moose Prize Band Greenville Band, 1909 Harmony Concert Co. Band, Byron Hollowayville Cornet Band Illinois Refrigerator Factory Band, Morrison Illinois Refrigerator Factory Band, Morrison Illinois Refridgerator Factory Band, Morrison Illinois State Reformatory Band Independent Silver Band, Mt. Vernon Industry Concert Band, 1910 Jacksonville Juvenile Band Jacobs Family Band Jeffries Band, Jacksonville, 1909 Jenkins Juvenile Band, Catlin

Kent Cornet Band Kirkwood Band Kraehwinkel Concert Band, Peoria La Moille Band Ladies Band, Durand Lake View Military Band, Chicago Lietuva Band, Chicago, 1914 Locan Band, Hanna City Lutheran Concert Band, Belleville Lutheran Concert Band, Belleville Markee Family Band, Quincy Maxam and Sights Rube Band, Blandinsville, 1908 Mayr Concert Band, Belleville, 1911 Mooseheart High School Concert Band Mooseheart Student Band Morin Band, 1890 Mount Morris Cornet Band New Windsor Band, 1914 Princess Rink Band, Chicago Odd Fellows Orphans Home Band, Lincoln, 1909 Odd Fellows Orphan's Home Band, Peoria, 1920s Ogden Knights of Pythias Band Oliver Band, Woodstock, 1912 Olivet Band, Bourbonnais Onarga Band, 1908 Opperman's Band, Piper City Orangeville Cornet Band P&O Band, Canton P&O Band, Canton P&O 5th Regiment Band, Canton P&O 5th Regiment Band, Canton, 1910 P&O 5th Regiment Band, Canton, 1909 Park Ridge Band Paxton Band, 1908 Paxton Band Pecatonica City Band Peoria Municipal Band, 1917 Phinney's US Band, Chicago Pitwood Band Princess Rink Band, Chicago, 1907 Ransom Cornet Band Richmond Cornet Band Rockford High School Band St Procopius College Band, Lisle, 1912 Sabontini Band, Chicago Schroeders Richwood Juvenile Band Smiths Military Band, Chicago Soldiers' Home Band, Danville Soldiers Orphans Home Band, Normal Soldiers Orphans Home Band, Normal Soldiers Orphans Home Band, Normal Staunton Sousa Band Stoltz Consolidated Band, Christopher Tamaroa Boys' Band, 1917 Third Regiment Band, I.N.G., De Kalb Trinity Ladies Band, Joliet Trumpeters, 1st Regiment Band, Springfield, 1913 Tumas Band, Chicago, 1911 Twentieth Century Band, Pearl City Twentieth Century Band, Pearl City, 1909 University of Illinois Military Band, 1911 University of Illinois Military Band Unknown Band Unknown Band US Army Band, De Kalb Vermont Military Band, 1913 Warsaw Band Wayne City Band Wenona Town Band Western Electric Band, Hawthorne, 1911 Western Springs Military Academy Band, Aurora, 1909 Westfield Band Westfield Cornet Band Wilson's Juvenile Band, Paw Paw Windsor Band Windtown Band  Yates City Band, 1907

Indiana

2nd Regiment Indiana National Guard Band, Harrison, 1908 8th Regiment UR of KP Band, Delphi 86th Regimental Band, Williamsport Ames 2nd Regiment BandMichigan City Attica Band, 1920 Band, Bicknell, 1909 Band, Fairmount, 1914 Band, Fairmount, 1914 Band, Le Roy Band, Messick Band, Wolcottville Bibber Brass Band, 1911 Big Six Band, Columbus Big Six Band, Columbus Bowser Boomer Band, S. F. Bowser & Co., Ft. Wayne Brazil Band Bryant Band Butler City Band, 1906 Butler Ladies Band, Butler CP Band, Shelbyville, 1910 Canneltown Band, 1906 Carthage Cornet Band, 1877 Centerville Town Band, 1902 Citizens' Band, Amboy, 1910 City Band, Laporte City Band, Terre Haute Culver Military Academy Band Darlington Christian Church Band Dellwood Band, Joliet, 1907 Dupont Concert Band, 1910, Dupont Doina Romana Band Dupont Concert Band, 1913 Elbel's Band, South Bend Fontanet Cornet Band Freemont Band, Deep River, 1914 Greenfield Band Group of people + tuba player Hawthorne Family Band, Portland Ideal Band, Gaborn, 1909 Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home Band Indianapolis News Newsboys Band Indianapolis News Boys Band, 1919 Industrial School Band, Anderson Letts Concert Band, 1908

Liberty Band, La Porte Local Talent Brass Band, Sioux City Michigan City Band Michigantown Cornet Band Mishawaka City Band, 1893 Mooreland Band National Home Band, Marion, 1906 National Home Band, Marion, 1908 National Home Band, Marion, 1909 National Home Band, Marion Newtown Band, 1907 North Webster Band, 1910 North Webster Band, 1910 Original Old Band People's Band, Marshall Purdue University Band, Lafayette, 1895 Purdue University Band, Lafayette, 1903 Rock Valley Military Band Rosedale Band Rushville City Concert Band, 1912 Schaller Band St Joseph Silver Band, Grosse Point, 1889 S.I. Band, Odon, 1909 Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home Band, Knightstown Speedway Aviation Depot Band, 1918 Story City Band Straughn Concert Band, 1908 Tecumseh Band, Worthington Tockaton Tribe Band, Mitchell Unknown Band, 1908 Unknown Band Unknown Band, Indianapolis Unknown Band, Indianapolis Unknown Band, Millersburg, 1909 Vallonia Band, 1908 West Newton Cornet Band Weyerbacher's Boys Band, Evansville Weyerbacher's Boys Band, Evansville Wolcottville Band Wolff's Band, Fort Wayne, 1880 Wyatt Band North, Bremen, 1910

Iowa

49th Regiment Band 51st Regiment Band A.B. Snyder Band, Sioux Rapids Alexander Cornet Band- Fred Madsen musical director Alton Military Band Aurelia Concert Band Badger Band Band, Bayard Band, Burlington Band, Clarinda, 1890s Band, Clevland, 1907 Band, Correctionville, 1910 Band, Dubuque Band, Eagle Grove, 1913 Band, Kalona, 1904 Band, Marshalltown, 1910 Band, New Hampton, 1905 Band, Peterson, 1909 Band, Tipton, 1908 Band Parade, Victor, 1911 Battle Creek Military Band Baxter Junior Band, Baxter, 1910 Belle Plaine Band Belle Plain Brass Band Belle Plaine Band, 1912 Cedar Falls Concert Band, 1908 Chelsea Band Ciricillo's Italian Band, Dubuque Clear Lake Band, 1909 Climbing Hill Band Cone Band Corwith Concert Band Corwith Concert Band Danville Cornet Band, 1909 Davenport Silver Band, 1870s Decatur Cornet Band Dunlap Cornet Band Dyersville Band East Story County Band Eldon Concert Band, 1918 Elgin Concert Band, 1909 Fort Dodge Municipal Band Fort Madison Prison Inmates Band Geneva Military Band, 1911 German American Band, Elma Germantown Band, 1911 Gilbert Band, Gilbert Grandview Serenade Band Guernsey Band, Deep River, 1914 Guthrie Center Military Band, 1910 High School Band, Strawberry Point Hillsboro Military Band, 1908 Hillsboro Military Band, 1908 Hillyard Band?, 1910 Ida Grove High School Band Iowa College Band, 1887 Iowa I.O.O.F. Orphans Home Band, Mason City, 1909

Iowa Falls Military Band, 1909 Iowa State Band, Cumberland Iowa State Normal School Ladies Band, Cedar Falls Iowa State Normal School Ladies Band, Cedar Falls, 1906 Iowa State College Band, Ames Janesville Cornet Band Jewell Lutheran College Band Keota Band, 1918 Keota Ladies Band, 1909 Keota Ladies Band Keota Ladies Band Kinsamons Band, Gowre Knights of Pythias Happy Hooligan Band, Osage, 1905 Ladies Band, Postville Lake Mills Band Lake Mills Band Leon School Band, 1908 Local Talent Brass Band, Sioux City Madrid Band, 1909 - with a new set of Conn instruments purchased in 1908 Mason City Band Memorial University Military Band, Mason City Mengis Band, Kiron New Hampton Band, 1905 Northwood Concert Band, 1909 Otho Cornet Band, 1909 Oto Band Page County Farmers Band Paint Creek Band, 1908 Peterson Band, 1909 Pleasant View Band, Luther College Postville Brass Band Progressive Band, Arthur, 1907 Radcliffe Band, 1909 Railroad Band, West Burlington Reeds Band, Sioux City, 1907 Reinbeck Band Reinbeck Band Remsen Cornet Band Remsen Cornet Band, 1908 Sabula Juvenile Band, 1907 Sac City Cornet Band, 1894 St. Anscar Band Stanwood Band, 1912 Story City Band Story City Band, 1908 Thatcher's Military Band Thor Band Toledo Cornet Band Toledo Coronet Band Unknown Band Ware Cornet Band Wartburg College Band, Waverly Wheatland Concert Band Winona Brass Band, 1906

Kansas

1st Regiment Band, Hiawatha, 1911 Almel Concert Band Attica Town Band, 1909 Band, Clayton, 1912 Band, Coffeyville Band, Downs Band, Galena Band, Highland, 1908 Band, Lafontaine Band, Lost Spring Band, New Murdock, 1908 Band, Pittsburgh, 1915 Band in procession, Dorrance Baxters Boy Band, Talmage Belle Plaine Band, 1890 Belle Plaine Cornet Band Blue Rapids Town Band, 1907 Bosh's Cornet Band, Marion Buch's Brass Band, Lawrence Burr Oak Concert Band Bushton Town Band, 1907 Butterfields Fire Department Band, 1910 Citizens Band, Herington, 1906 Citizen's Band, Leon Clayton Band, 1912 Combined Bands, Granola, 1923 Commercial Band, Wichita, 1905 Dodge City Cowboy Band Dodge City Cowboy Band, 1888 Ellinwood Band Ellinwood Band Famous Boys' Band, Burlingame, 1912 Fort Leavenworth Regimental Band Fowler Band, 1909 Garden City Band, 1925 Grainfield Citizens Band, 1908 Haven Band, 1907 Haven Band, 1907

Kansas State Agricultural College Military Band Kansas State Agricultural College Military Band, 1909 Kansas State College Band Ladies Band, Herington Ladies Cornet Band, Goodland, 1908 Lawrence Band Leroy Military Band, 1909 Linn Country Band Lyons Concert Band, 1908 Macabee Band, El Dorado, 1907 McCray's Concert Band, Independence McPherson Band, 1910 Manifold's Military Band, Beloit Mid Continent Band, Wellsville Modern Woodmen of America Band, Larned Nauer Band , Jennings Nehosho Falls Band Oberlin Military Band, Oberlin College Onaga Concert Band Onaga Concert Band Onaga Concert Band Oxford Ladies Band Pleasanton Juvenile Band Pleasanton Cornet Band, 1900 Rebekah Oddfellows Band Rogers Brass Band, 1910 Sabetha Town Band Salemsberg Star Band Salvation Army Band musicians Scandia Town Band, 1907 Southwest Kansas Band, 1929 Strode Industrial Academy Band, Oswego Strode Industrial Academy Band, Oswego Von Prosky's Band, Meade Von Prosky's Band. Meade Waterville Marching Band, 1909 White City Band

Kentucky

Circus Band in wagon, Frankfurt Claysville Band Cook's Military Band, Louisville Elizabethtown Brass Band, 1870s Exstein Norton Institute Boys Band Frankfort Prison Band Greensburg Concert Band I.O.O.F. Home Band, Lexington

Klub Kentucky Band, Farlington, 1909 Male High School Band, Louisville Maysville Boys Band, 1920 Maysville Boys Band, 1920s Old Henry BandHarrison County Pikeville Concert Band Unknown Band

Louisiana

Alexandria Brass Band, 1892 Allen's Brass Band, Algiers, c. 1915 Colored Waifs Home Brass Band, New Orleans, c. 1912 (with young Louis Armstrong - arrowed)

East Side Concert Band, Iberia Unknown Band, New Orleans, Louisiana West End Military Band, New Iberia, 1907 West End Military Band, New Iberia, 1907

Maine

56 Pioneer Infantry Band, 1918 Band of the 20th Maine Band, Eastport Band, East Port Band, Kingfield, 1898 Band, Skowhegan Bates Band, Lewiston Bath Band Belfast Band Bridgton Band Bridgton Band Calais Band Chandler Band, 1890s Co. E Military Band, Skowhegan Cornish Cornet Band, 1890 Damariscotta Brass Band Damariscotta Brass Band Damariscotta Band De Rue Brothers Minstrels and Concert Band, 1906 De Rue Brothers Minstrels and Concert Band, 1914 Donovan's Band, Houlton Fanfare St. Cecile, Lewiston Fanfare St. Cecile, Lewiston Fanfare St. Cecile, Lewiston Fanfare St. Cecile, Lewiston Fanfare St. Dominique, Lewiston Fanfare St. Dominique, Lewiston Ferry Village Union Brass Band Fire Department Band, Cape Elizabeth, 1930s Gray Cornet Band, 1876 Ingraham Hill Band, Rockland Kents Hill Band Leland and Gray Seminary Cornet Band Livermore Falls Band Lubec Band

Maine State Prison Band, 1916 Maine State University Band, 1915 Maine YMCA Band Mansfields Band, Chebeague Island National Home Band, Togus Newport Band Newport Band Newport Band Newport Band Newport Band Norridgewock Cadet Band Norridgewock Cornet Band Painchaud's Band, Biddeford Pittsfield-Monroe Club Band Portland Band, 1912 Portland Police Band St Cecilia Boys Band, Lewiston St Dominique Band, Lewiston St Joseph's Band, Oldtown, 1910 Searsport Band Seminary Band Smiths Vinalhaven Band, 1905 Smiths Vinalhaven Band, 1905 South Berwick Cadet Band, 1886 Stonington Band Thomaston Military Band, 1880 Unknown Band, Portland, 1908 Unknown Band Veazie Band Waldoboro Band Waldoboro Band Waldoboro Town Band, 1915

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