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.

Wisconsin
  • Ableman Band, 1912
  • Albany Cornet Band
  • American Legion Band, Beaver Dam
  • Band, 1908
  • Band, Madison, 1913
  • Bezucha Brothers Family Band, Hillsboro
  • Boscobel Juvenile Band, 1910
  • Burnett Concert Band, 1910
  • City Band, Ashland,
  • Clayton Concert Band, 1911
  • Clyman Band, 1908
  • Country Band, Haugen
  • Dana Band, La Crosse, 1907
  • Delevan City Band
  • EHB Band, Appleton, 1910
  • Fairwater Village Band
  • Family Band, Eauclaire
  • Gillett Band, 1915
  • High School Cadet Band, New Richmond
  • Ladies Band, Randolph, 1909
  • Lake Geneva Band, 1900
  • Ludington Guard Band, Menomonie
  • Milford Band, 1890
  • Military Band
  • Monarch Band, Readville, 1907
  • Necedah Band
  • New Glarus Juvenile Band, 1906
  • New Richmond High School Cadet Band, 1910
  • North Milwaukee Band
  • North Side Band, New Richmond, 1918
  • North Side Band, New Richmond, 1918
  • Ohio State Band, Madison, 1913
  • PHS Scouts Band
  • Port Washington Band
  • Prairie du Chien Band
  • Ridgeland and Prairie Farm Brass Band
  • Ripon College Marching Band
  • River Falls Band
  • South Side Band, Two Rivers, 1909
  • St Coletta Instituate Band, Jefferson, 1930s
  • Swiss Military Band, Milwaukee, 1909
  • Tigerton City Band
  • Tomah Marching Band, 1923
  • University of Wisconsin Band, 1885
  • University of Wisconsin Regimental Band, 1899
  • University of Wisconsin Regimental Band, 1912
  • Unknown Band, on sledge, Wisconsin?
  • Utopian Ladies Band, Belleville
  • Utopian Ladies Band, Belleville
  • Viroqua 3rd Regiment Band, 1909
  • Waupun State Prison Band, 1910
  • White City Band, Port Edwards
  • Wild Rose Brass Band, 1920
  • Wisconsin State Prison Band, Waupun, 1910

    Wyoming
  • Eagles Band, Douglas, 1910
  • WOW Pilot Camp Band, Laramie

    Unspecified state location
  • 1st US Engineers Band
  • 3rd Regiment Band, Rochester, 1908
  • 8th Infantry Band
  • 10th Veteran Reserve Corps Band
  • 10th Veteran Reserve Corps Band, 1865
  • 20th Infantry Band, World War 1
  • 24th Army Corps Band, 1865
  • 65th Regiment Band
  • 74th Regiment Band
  • 107th Colored Infantry Band
  • 356th Infantry Division Band, in France, WW1
  • Adel Juvenile Military Band, 1892
  • Al Sweet's Concert Band, 1909
  • American Expeditionary Forces 301st Engineers Band, 1919
  • Army Band, with children as music stands, WW1
  • Bainbridge Band
  • Bainbridge Brass Band, 1905
  • Band of the 107th Colored Infantry, 1865
  • Band of the 9th Veteran Reserve Corps
  • Barnum and Bailey Concert Band, 1910?
  • Barnum & Bailey Concert Band, 1910
  • Barnum Bailey Circus Band
  • Battle Creek Silver Cornet Band, 1868
  • Belview Silver Cornet Band, 1890
  • Belview Silver Cornet Band, 1910
  • Bessie Cornet Band
  • Big Springs Cornet Band
  • Blackwell Band, 1918
  • Bloomer Band, 1909
  • Bloomfield Cornet Band, 1860s
  • Boston Ladies' Military Band
  • Bothell Concert Band, 1910
  • Boyne City Band
  • Bridgton Band
  • Bristol Butler Band, 1896
  • Buckeye Band, Lake Ohio
  • Buckingham Band
  • Burrows and Leons Circus Band
  • Cadillac Band
  • Calumet Miners' Band
  • Carharroak Brass Band, 1919
  • Carlisle College Indian Band, 1906
  • Carlisle Indian Band
  • Carlisle Indian School Band
  • Carrier Mills Cornet Band
  • Cawker City Band
  • CCGB Band,
  • Charlotteville Band, 1908
  • Chester Cornet Band
  • Christian Bible School Martial Band
  • Church Army Band, 1915
  • Circus Band, 1912
  • Clay City Cornet Band
  • Cleburne Band, Santa Fe, 1913
  • Combat Engineers Band, WW1
  • Cordova Cornet Band
  • Cordova Cornet Band, 1903
  • Corfu Cornet Band
  • Corfu Cornet Band
  • Crippled Children's Brass Band,
  • Davis City Band
  • Dr Diamond Dick's Female Band
  • Dubuque Girls Band, 1923
  • Dunstable Cornet Band, 1878
  • E. B. Brass Band
  • East Haddam Bohemian Band
  • East Woodstock Cornet Band, 1927
  • Eastern Training College Salvation Army Men Cadets Band
  • Edward Shippen Military Band
  • Elwyn Band
  • Eustis Cornet Band
  • Ewings Zouave Band
  • Falls Creek Cornet Band
  • Falls Creek Tannery Band
  • Female Marching Band
  • Field Artillery Band Horn Players, 1906
  • Field Band of the 16th NGNY, 1898
  • Firemen's Band
  • First Brigade Band, Greeley
  • Ford Motor Band, 1920s
  • Fort McKinley YMCA Band
  • Fort Monroe Post Band
  • Fratia Romana Band, E Youngstown
  • Geneva Military Band
  • Gilmore Band, 1870s
  • Gloucester Cornet Band, 1880
  • Goodland Band
  • Granville Centre Cornet Band
  • Granville Centre Cornet Band, 1912
  • Grass Valley Concert Band
  • Hagenbeck -Wallace Circus Band, 1912
  • Hallstead Band
  • Hardie and Von Leers Celebrated Indian Band
  • Hebron Military Band
  • Helen May Butler's Ladies Military Brass Band
  • Hermines Midget Band
  • Hibbing Concert Band
  • Hillgrove Band, 1898
  • Hills American Indian Band
  • Hills American Indian Band
  • Hopi Indian Training School Band, 1901
  • Horicon City Band
  • Horseshoe Cornet Band, 1910
  • Hudson Band
  • I.O.O.F. Orphans Home Band, 1915
  • Iloogans Reed and Brass Band
  • Independence Band, Onset
  • Isabel Band
  • Jackson Brass Band, 1860
  • Jeffersonville Band, 1907
  • Jenningtown Citizens Band, 1909
  • Jewell's Concert Band, Barnum and Bailey Show 1908
  • Keystone Juvenile Band
  • Killarney Ladies Silver Band, 1908
  • Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic Military Band of Utah
  • Lakeland Band
  • Larwill Band
  • Lavina Boosters Brass Band
  • Le Fanfare du College du Sacre Coeur, Bathurst
  • Lewis Concert Band
  • Liberati's Grand Military Band, 1888
  • London Band, 1911
  • Lone Star Band, 1916
  • Lynchburg Cornet Band
  • Lyon and Healey Band, 1879 (print)
  • Lyons Concert Band, 1908
  • Magnolia Cornet Band
  • Marmarth Band, 1914
  • McK. H. S. Concert Military Band, 1907
  • Mechanics Band
  • Mechanics Brass Band
  • Merle Evans Band, Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailer's Circus
  • Metropolitan Life Military Band, 1910
  • MFB? Band
  • Mission House Band, 1912
  • Montpelier Military Band
  • Mooseheart Boys Band
  • Mooseheart Boys Band, 1914
  • Moreland Band?
  • Mount Morris Brass Band, 1894
  • Musique de la 1ere brigade d'artillerie de Campagne de Pera
  • Ned Brill's Band, Barnum & Bailey's Circus, 1911
  • New England Provincial S. A. Band
  • Newbury Cornet Band
  • Norfolk and Western Concert Band
  • Noss Family Band
  • Notre Dame College Band
  • Onaga Concert Band
  • Otho Concert Band
  • Pace's Silver Cornet Band
  • Palacios Marine Band
  • Parker Watts Circus Band, 1939
  • Parkersburg Concert Band, 1907
  • Pea Ridge College Band
  • Pierpoint Band
  • Pioneer Cornet Band
  • Prattsburg CMA Band, 1907
  • Pykes Concert Band, Johnston City
  • Railway and Cornet Band Historical Photos
  • Red Cliff Brass Band, 1887
  • Reeves American Band, 1901
  • Reliance Brass Band, 1910
  • Richardsons Cornet Band, 1879
  • Rifton Band, 18??
  • Ringling Brothers Annex Band, 1911
  • Ringling Brothers Circus Band, 1898
  • Ringling Brothers Concert Band, 1913
  • Ringtown Citizens' Band
  • River City Band
  • Rivers Citizens Band
  • Royal Italian Band
  • Rushville Brass Band, 1908
  • Russell Ladies Band
  • Ryan's Concert Band
  • S.O. Coventry Brass Band
  • Salvation Army "War Chariot" Band, 1893
  • Salvation Army Band
  • Salvation Army Band
  • San Leandro Band, 1886
  • Shepard Family Band
  • Silver Cornet Band, 1870
  • Silver Family Concert Band
  • Simmonds Military Band
  • Skaneateles Band, 1911
  • Sousa Band members, Tour of England - en route between the Crystal Palace and Alexandra Palace
  • Sousa Band, 1905
  • Sousa Band, 1907
  • Sousa Band, 1919
  • Sousa Band, world tour 1910
  • Sousa's Band, 1900
  • Spring Creek Band
  • St Cloud Band
  • Steinauer Neb Edmund Band, 1915
  • Stockbridge MWA Band, 1909
  • Stockington Brass Band
  • Stockington Brass Band
  • Stones Prairie Band
  • Strohl Family Band, 1870 (see further info on Strohls)
  • Sweets Concert Band, Ringling Brothers, 1911
  • Sykesville Band, 1922
  • Tavistock Carnival Band
  • Teeswater Cornet Band
  • Transconda Band
  • Tuskegee Institute Band
  • Tuskegee Institute Band
  • Twin City Band
  • U.S.S. Von Steuben Band
  • Union Cornet Band
  • US Field Artillery Band
  • US Marine Band, 1882 (Musical Director, JP Sousa)
  • US Naval Academy Hospital Band, 1860s
  • USS New York Band, 1918? - all wearing flu masks
  • W.J. Band, 1903
  • Wabash College Band, 1900
  • Walk-Over Shoe Band, Brockton
  • Webb City Cornet Band
  • West Bergholt Brass Band, 1920s
  • West Frankfort Cornet Band, 1900s
  • West Sullivan Band, 1890
  • Western Amateur Band
  • Whittier Cornet Band
  • Widow McCarty Band
  • Wilksville Cornet Band, 1908
  • Wortham Concert Band, 1907
  • Young American Brass Band
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    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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