Vintage Brass Band Pictures

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.

Maryland
  • Aberdeen Band
  • Band, 1911
  • Carlos Band, 1907
  • Frostburg Arion Band
  • Kempton Boys Band
  • Pleasant Valley Concert Band
  • Regimental Band, Camp Meade, 191?

    Massachusetts
  • Band, Oak Bluffs
  • City Band, Worcester, 1916
  • Cottage City Band, (Oak Bluffs), Martha's Vineyard, 1890s
  • Creatore's Italian Band, Boston, 1913
  • Florence Rangers Broadcasting Band, Gardner, 1930s
  • Hanson American Band, 1908
  • Hills Novelty Band, Worcester
  • Junior Holy Name Band, Medford
  • Massachusetts 8th Regiment Band, 1870s
  • Milford Boys Band
  • Norwood Band
  • Petersham Band
  • Saima Band, Fitchburg, MA
  • Salem Cadet Band
  • Sockanosset Band, 1905
  • Stevens Firearms Company Band, Chicopee Falls, 1907
  • Unknown Band, marching in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1907
  • Vineyard Haven Town Band
  • Walk Over Shoe Band, Oak Bluffs
  • Ware Boys Band
  • Warren Cornet Band
  • Warren Cornet Band

    Michigan
  • 2nd Michigan Infantry Band, 1910
  • 3rd Regiment Band, Menominee, 1908
  • Band, 1908
  • Band, St Clair
  • Buick Motor Co. Band, Flint
  • Central Lake Band
  • Colon Band
  • Concordia Christian Band, Grand Rapids
  • Detroit Michigan Reserve Band
  • Eden Springs Ladies Band, Benton Harbor, 1913
  • Evening Press Newsboys Band, Grand Rapids
  • First Presbyterian Church Band, Flint
  • Flint Band
  • Flint Band, 1905
  • Flint Salvation Army Band
  • Flint Salvation Army Band
  • Flint Salvation Army Band, 1915
  • Flint Salvation Army Band, 1926
  • Girls Imperial Band, Reading
  • Grand Haven City Band, 1910
  • Grand Rapids Band
  • Grand Rapids Citadel Band- the first commissioned Salvation Army Band in the United States. For its history see:
  • House of David Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Ladies Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Ladies Band, Benton Harbour
  • House of David Syncopators Band, Benton Harbour, 1915
  • Hubbardston Band
  • Imperial Band, Adrian
  • Imperial Band, Adrian
  • Imperial Band, Adrian
  • Imperial Girls Band, Reading
  • Indian School Band, Mount Pleasant
  • Indian School Band, Mount Pleasant
  • Kalbitzers Band, Arcadia
  • Kalbitzer's Band, Arcadia, 1915
  • Lake Linden Band
  • Lake Linden Band, 1908
  • Lakeside Ladies Band, Detroit, 1884
  • Mancelona High School Band, 1909
  • Marine Band, Boyne City
  • Mass City Band, 1890s
  • Mechanics Band, Niles, 1888
  • Muldoon Band, Barbour Hall, Nazareth, Kalamazoo Co.
  • New Era Cornet Band, 1912
  • Olds Motor Works Band, Lansing
  • Peerless Band, Brighton
  • Pellston Band
  • Ruth Band
  • Silver Cornet Band
  • Snover Cornet Band, 1905
  • Stanton Marine Band
  • Stanton Marine Band, 1908
  • Tabernacle Concert Band, Pontiac
  • Union Cornet Band, Cass Co. Michigan
  • Ubly Band, 1910
  • Unknown Band,
  • Unknown Salvation Army Players, Michigan, 1890s
  • US Indian School Band, Mount Pleasant, 1908
  • Williamston Girls Band
  • Wolverine Harmony Players Band, Jackson

    Minnesota
  • 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Band, 1864
  • Austin Boys Band
  • Beaver Creek Band
  • Blooming Prairie Band
  • Brandon Band, 1910
  • Burkhardt Band, Reads Landing, 1876
  • Cadet Band, Le Roy, Minnesota, 1910
  • Clear Lake Band
  • Crookston Band
  • Danz Band
  • Elbow Lake Concert Band, 1915
  • Granite Falls Town Band, 1906
  • International Falls Brass Band
  • Hardwick Band
  • Ladies Band, Fairfax
  • Marching Band, Trade Tour, Minneapolis
  • Minneapolis Band, 1870
  • Minnesota State Prison Band, 1910
  • Minnesota State Training School Band, Red Wing
  • Model City Tam O'Shanter Band, Tracy
  • Monitcello Cornet Band
  • Morgan Cornet Band, 1908
  • Normania Cornet Band
  • North St Paul Band, 1885
  • Orpheus Band
  • Prairie Lawns Band, Walnut Grove
  • Salvation Army Band
  • St James Fire Department Band, 1913
  • St Mary's College Band, Winona, 1923
  • Starbuck Concert Band
  • Swanville Cornet Band, 1915
  • Two Harbors Marine Band
  • Two Harbors Marine Band
  • Wabasso Band, 1912
  • Watertown Ladies Band
  • Waterville Citizens Band
  • Watkins Band
  • Wells Maroon Band
  • Willmar Municipal Band

    Mississippi
  • German Cornet Band, 1876
  • Kosciusko Cornet Band
  • Kosciusko Cornet Band
  • Ocean Springs Brass Band, 1912
  • Unknown Band

    Missouri
  • Arcadia Valley Baptist Boys Band
  • Butler Cornet Band, 1908
  • Cameron Military Band, Cameron, 1907
  • Clark Concert Band, Clark, 1909
  • Edina Ladies Band, 1908
  • Emma Cornet Band
  • Enterprise Military Band, Hermann, 1913
  • Fredericksburg Military Band
  • Huckstep Concert Band, Bowling Green
  • I.O.O.F. Home Band of Missouri, 1907
  • Lebanon Concert Band, 1912
  • Liberal Brass Band, 1907
  • Lutesville Band, 1911
  • Schell City "Lady" Band
  • State Normal Military School Band, Cape Girardeau
  • Unknown Band, Maryville, Missouri
  • Webb City Band

    Montana
  • 14th Infantry Band, Helena, 1916
  • Boston and Montana Band, Bute, 1907
  • Crow Indian Boys Band, St Peter's Mission, 1880s
  • Ekalaka Band
  • Glendive Ensemble, 1900
  • Ladies Imperial Band, Bozeman, 1911
  • Ladies Imperial Band, Bozeman, 1911
  • Military Band, Helena, WWI

    Nebraska
  • Aurora Concert Band, 1909
  • Band, Ansley, 1907
  • Band, Nelson, 1935
  • Band, Bridgeport
  • Bristow Military Band, 1909
  • Chadron Band, , 1912
  • Chadron Boosters Band,
  • Commercial Club Band, Wayne
  • Dorhman's Band, Ewing
  • German Cornet Band, Sutton
  • Band, Hastings, 1908
  • Humboldt City Band, 1910
  • Humbolt City Band
  • Hyannis Band, 1914
  • Kearney Band, 1907
  • Pecks Bad Boys Band, Kearney
  • Petersburg Brass Band
  • Polk Band
  • Queen City Band, Beatrice, 1908
  • Rahn's Concert Band, Andrews, 1909
  • Sidney Military Band
  • State Normal Band, Peru
  • Superior Band
  • Sydney Juvenile Concert Band, 1908
  • Sydney Juvenile Concert Band, 1911
  • Wausa Town Band, 1910
  • Wood River Band, 1910
  • York College Band, York, 1909

    Nevada
  • Salvation Army Band, Reno
  • Salvation Army Band, Reno
  • Tonopah Boys School Band

    New Hampshire
  • 3rd New Hampshire Regiment Band, 1862
  • Band, 1909
  • Band, Echo Lakes, Franconia Notch
  • Bradford Band
  • Claremont Cornet Band, 1873
  • Claremont Band, 1908
  • Emery's Military Band, Dover
  • Gilsum Brass Band
  • Gilsum Brass Band
  • Gilsum Brass Band
  • Gilsum Brass Band
  • Hanson's American Band, Rochester, 1909
  • Hinsdale Brass Band, 1889
  • Hinsdale Brass Band, 1906
  • Kinston Cornet Band, 1885
  • Milford Band, 1870
  • Oleson's Band, Berlin
  • Rindge Cornet Band
  • Unknown Band, New Hampshire

    New Jersey
  • Boonton Rubber Manufacturing Company Band, 1915
  • C Biederman's Boys Band, Newark
  • D.A. Russell Post Band, Hanmonton
  • Flemington Band, 1911
  • High Bridge Band, 1907
  • John Wanamaker Cadet Band, Seaside Heights
  • Lafayette Cornet Band
  • Milford Band, 1913
  • Military Band, Sea Girt, 1909
  • Pitman Concert Band
  • Robinsons Band, Sea Girt
  • Sousa Band, Atlantic City
  • St Mary's Boys Band, Landisville
  • Underwood Social and Athletic Band, Jersey City
  • Union Band, Farhils
  • Union Band, Sussex
  • Union Cornet Band, Far Hills
  • Unknown Band, Asbury Park, New Jersey 1909

    New Mexico
  • CVFD Band, Carlsbad

    New York
  • 2nd Regiment Band
  • 5th Infantry Band, Plattsburg
  • 10th Precinct Police Band, Buffalo
  • 23rd Regiment Band,
  • 23rd Regiment Band
  • 65th Regiment Band, 1891
  • 71st Regiment Band
  • American Band, Fiskdale
  • American Band, founded in 1837, one of America's oldest civilian concert bands. A history of The American Band
  • Atlanta and North Cochocton Band
  • Band, Newburgh
  • Band, Rochester, 1915
  • Banda Rossa, Utica
  • Beacon Fire Engine Company Band, 1907
  • Bowman's Band, Brooklyn, 1910
  • Canajoharie Band, 1924
  • Cattaraugus Band, 1908
  • Citizens Band, Cato, 1906
  • Citizens Cadet Band, Medina
  • Cloversville Cornet Band
  • Cobleskill Brass Band
  • Collins 10th Regiment BandAlbany, 1907
  • Cornwall Village Band
  • Corona Typewriter Band, Groton
  • Coughlin's 12th Regiment Band (New York), Earls Court, 1909
  • Croghan Cornet Band
  • Dolgeville Citizens Cornet Band, 1890s
  • Downsville Concert Band, 1907
  • Downsville Concert Band, 1907
  • Downsville Concert Band
  • Downsville Concert Band
  • Dryden Cornet Band, 1910
  • Earville Band
  • Earville Military Band
  • Elmira Cornet Band, 1861
  • Elmira Cornet Band, 1864
  • Endicott City Band, 1915
  • Fireman's Band, New Hamburg
  • Firth Carpet Co. Band - Firthcliff. (taken in front of the old Firthcliff Club House which had an auditorium, barber shop, a bowling alley in the basement, and meeting rooms)
  • Fish's Eddy Cornet Band
  • Fort Dayton Band, Herkimer
  • Fort Plain Band, 1910
  • General Electric Band, Schenectady
  • Greene Cornet Band, 1875
  • Guays Boys Band, Massena
  • Hammondsport Band, 1908
  • Hammondsport Band, 1908
  • Home Town Band, Schoharie, 1905
  • Homer Band, pre-1893
  • Innes Band
  • Ithaca Band
  • Jeffersonville Cornet Band, 1910
  • Jo Basile, the Brass Band King
  • Keatings Band, Olean, 1909
  • Little Falls Band
  • Lowville Band
  • Lowville Band
  • Lowville Band, 1908
  • Lowville Band, 1909
  • Maccabee Band, Elmira
  • Malone City Band
  • Manhatten Company Silk Mill Band, Ogdensburg, 1912
  • Miller's Cornet Band, Hume, 1905
  • Montgomery Cornet Band, 1911
  • Nanuet Fire Engine Co. Band, 1910
  • National Staff Band, 1910
  • New Baltimore Cornet Band, 1890
  • New York City Police Band, Bass Section, 1922
  • Old Fort Plain Band, Fort Plain
  • Packard's Band, Greene
  • Penn Yan School Girl's Band, 1927
  • Pennyann Cornet Band, 1890s
  • Phillips Band, Oswego, 1916
  • Pine Valley Band
  • Port Leyden Military Band
  • Prattsburg CMA Band, 1906
  • Prattsville Cornet Band
  • Prattsville Cornet Band
  • Prattsville Cornet Band, 1906
  • Randles Ladies Band, Walden, 1911
  • Remington Typewriter Band, Ilion
  • Richters Manhattan Beach Band
  • Rome Metallic Bedstead Company Band, 1905
  • Salvation Army National Staff Band
  • School of Aerial Photography Band, Rochester
  • Scinta Band, Buffalo
  • Seneca Cornet Band, Buffalo
  • Sonyea Brass Band
  • St Cyrile Boys Band, Binghampton
  • St Joseph's Seminary Band, Yonkers, 1920
  • State Reformatory Band, Elmira
  • Stephens Mills Band, 1907
  • Sydney Band
  • Taberg Cornet Band, 1908
  • Taberg Cornet Band, 1911
  • Tow Sw Stanistawa BandMills, 1908
  • Walden Band, 1910
  • Weedsport Band, 1913
  • Westkill Band, 1908

    North Carolina
  • Glenola Band, 1880
  • Glenola Band, 1880

    North Dakota
  • Band, Ellendale, 1909
  • Bottineau Band, 1909
  • Capital City Band
  • Cavalier Band
  • Cleveland Brass Band
  • Community Band, Wimbledon
  • Community Band, Wimbledon
  • Community Band, Wimbledon
  • Glenburn Band, 1909
  • Hope Concert Band
  • Minot Band, 1909
  • Minot Concert Band, 1908
  • Mount Carmel Band, 1908
  • Mountrail County Band, Stanley
  • Plaza Cornet Band
  • Unknown Band, 1909
  • Willow Lake Cornet Band
  • United Kingdom UK Bands
    Australia Australia
    Canada Canada
    New Zealand New Zealand
    Other lands or unknown Others
    United States USA (AL-ME)
    United States USA (MD-ND)
    United States USA (OH-WV)
    United States USA (WI-various)
    United States USA (unknown)

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