Carl Landrum Historical Bands Collection, 1845-2010

By Carol Berthold

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Collection Overview

Title: Carl Landrum Historical Bands Collection, 1845-2010

ID: 12/9/167

Primary Creator: Landrum, Carl (1916-2003)

Extent: 1.15 cubic feet

Arrangement: Original order.

Date Acquired: 07/13/2020

Subjects: Band Musicians, Instrumental music, Military Bands, Music -- Illinois, Music - United States

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of photographs, newsclippings, concert programs, tour flyers, correspondence, published articles, music scores and parts,and posters documenting American wind band performance practice between the 1850s and 1930s as well as Landrum's historical research on American bands. Materials are organzed in original order.

Biographical Note

Carl Landrum (1916-2003) was born in Quincy, IL. He graduated from Quincy College, and after serving in the military, working as a musician, and teaching in Ursa and Lewistown, MO, returned to Quincy and became the band and orchestra director at Quincy Notre Dame school, and the director of the Quincy Park Band, which he founded in 1948. After becoming interested in history by participating in the Civil War centenntial celebrations, in 1965 he started writing a local history column in the Quincy Herald-Whig, "From Quincy's Past." A year later, he published his first book, titled Quincy and the Civil War.

Landrum continued directing the Quincy Park Band until 1993, and wrote ten additional books on local history, including his last book on the musical life of Quincy, published posthumously by his wife, Shirley Landrum, in 2010.

Subject/Index Terms

Band Musicians
Instrumental music
Military Bands
Music -- Illinois
Music - United States

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: Pamela Potter

Acquisition Method: Gift

Box and Folder Listing


Volume 1: John Philip Sousa and His Band, 1868-1987Add to your cart.
Copies of original photographs of Sousa, his bands, concert programs, enlistment papers and news clippings.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Photo Binder 1: John Philip Sousa and His Band (1 of 3), 1882-1978Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Sousa and A.A.Harding with Urbana High School Band; poster for Sousa and Band at Paris Exposition, March 1, 1900; Sousa and select band members, 1912; poster for Sousa Band program, 1909; Sousa and Thomas A. Edison; Band in Regina, Canada, 1925; Sousa Band baseball team; clarinet section of Sousa Bank in 1915; Band at Willow Grove, PA, 1919; Sousa Band at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, July 4, 1915 (band members named by section); U.S. Marine Band, J.P. Sousa, director; Sousa Band at St. Louis World's Fair, 1904; Sousa Band in Hamburg, Germany, 1900; Sousa's Band, 1882; world's largest bass horn, 1893; Sousa and Band at inaugural presentation of Sousa's 101st march, :"The Gallant Seventh, November 5, 1922; U.S. Marine Band , August, 1882; Frank Simon's ARMCO Band, Patrick Conway Band, 1926; Bohumir Kryl Band; Everett Allyn Moses Band; Program, Sousa conducting at Columbian Music Festival, 1893; newspaper articles announcing Sousa's death, March 6, 1932;. correspondence from Sousa, September 12, 1902.
Folder 2: Photo Binder 1: John Philip Sousa and His Band (2 of 3), 1868-1945Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include:  First enlistment papers of John Philip Sousa in the U.S. Marine Corps as cabinet maker, June 1868, Defense Dept. photo; copy of enlistment papers of John P. Sousa in the U.S. Marine Corps as principal musician, July 1872, Department of Defense Photo; Sousa and Edwin Frank Goldman, 1929; John Philip Sousa with inscripton to Mrs. Herbert L. Clarke, 1928; Sousa and Band, Crystal Palace, London, June 15, 1903; Sousa in Marine Band uniform; Sousa at U. of Illinois, March 0, 1930; Sousa Band at Willow Grove Park, August 21, 1907; last picture of Sousa taken at 7 p.m., March 5, 1932, housrs before he died; Sousa's Band, 1882; program from Sousa's Concert Band, April 26, 1896; U.S. Marine Corps Band, ca. 1900, Sousa conductor; Sousa Band, some players identified, 1919.
Folder 3: Photo Binder 1: John Philip Sousa and His Band (3 of 3), 1872-1987Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: U.S. Marine Corps Band, 1889; poster announcing 38th annual tour of Sousa and his Band, 1930; Sousa's father and mother; consent papers signed by Antonio Sousa giving permission for his son to re-enlist in the Marine Band, 1872; tryout estimate for Sousa as honorary conductor of U. of Illinois Concert Band, March 20, 1930; concert programs; Marine Band, 1882; original letter with musical notation from Sousa to George Nichols, October 22, 1913;  concert ticket for Sousa and Band, Quincy College, November 2, 1927; color reproduction of photo, Sousa's Band, Paris Exposition; negative of photo of Sousa, inscribed to Mrs. Herbert L. Clarke, 1928; copy of original manuscript of Stars and Stripes Forever.
Oversize Portfolio Case 1: Sousa Band Columbian Exposition Newspaper Advertisement, 1893Add to your cart.
Item 1: Sousa Band Columbian Exposition Newspaper Advertisement, page 1, 1893Add to your cart.
Item 2: Sousa Band Columbian Exposition Newspaper Advertisement, page 2, 1893Add to your cart.
Volume 2: John Philip Sousa, Personal and Band Photos, 1888-1932Add to your cart.
Materials related to John Philip Sousa's personal life and background and his bands, band programs, tryout applicaions, military enistment forms.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Photo Binder 2: John Philip Sousa, Personal and Band Photos (1 of 2), 1888-1932Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Sousa's tryout forms for U. of Illinois Concert Band, March 20, 1930; original Sousa Band programs, New Zealand tour, 1911; U.S. Marine Corps Band, Albany, NY, 1888. Sousa and his Band, World's Fair, Glasgow Scotland, 1901;  Sousa at home, 1921; U.S. Marine Corps Band, Cape May, NJ, ca. 1891; Sousa and A.A. Harding, Interlochen; Sousa and Saint-Saens, 1915; Tuba section, Sousa Band, 1921 and 1927 (musicians identified); Sousa Band Percussion section (musicians identified); Bass drummer Gus Helmecke; Sousa Band, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1911; A.A. Harding and U. of Illinois band staff examining Sousa's music; Sousa birthplace; Sousa grave and monument; Sousa on his 77th birthday; Sousa's casket, lying in state, Band Room, Marine Barracks, Washington, DC; Sousa at the piano; Sousa the night before he died.
Folder 5: Photo Binder 2; John Philip Sousa, Personal and Band Potos (2 of 2), 1893-1923Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include:Sousa duck hunting; Sousa and his wife, Jennie Bellis Sousa; Sousa's favorite oil protrait; Helen Sousa Abert; Priscilla Sousa; Sousa's house; Sousa in U.S. Navy uniform, 1918; Sousa, 1912; Sousa waiting to direct, London, 1905; Sousa, 1893; Sousa 1923, Lt. Comm. Sousa, U.S.N.R.F.; Sousa, 1921; Sousa Memorial Room, U. of Illinois; Sousa, two other band directors, getting harcuts; Sousa and U.S. Marine Band, ca. 1900.
Volume 3: School, Military and Community Bands, 1870-1979Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Photo Binder 3: School, Military, and Community Bands (1 of 5), 1908-1979Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Joliet Township High School Band, 1948; article about Victor Grabel, bandmaster, 1966 U. of Illinois Concert Band, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, April 27, 1953; U. of Illinois Concert Band, 63rd Annversary concert, March 19 and 20, 1953; U. of Illinois Symphony Orchestra; U. of Illinois Concert Band, 62nd Anniversary concert, March 12 and 13, 1952; U.S. Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants, 1975; Bandmasters' Calendar, 1979; House of David Band; Bowling Green (MO) Band, 1911, with handwritten note; Huckster Band, 1911; Huckster Band, 1926; Edna (MO) Ladies' Band; Moulder's Band, Quincy (IL), 1912; Mid-West conference attendees, 1956.
Folder 7: Photo Binder 3: School, Military, and Community Bands (2 of 5), 1895-1958Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs included: Quincy (IL) Chamber of Commerce Glee Club, 1916; Empire Band, Quincy (IL) (members identified); 50th Regimental Band, Iowa National Guard, c. 1895 (members identified);  Chautauqua Orchestra, Boulder, CO, 1901; St. John's Evangelical Church Orchestra, 1895; Markee Family Band, Quincy, IL, ca. 1900; Ewing's Zouave Band, 1910; Fifth Infantry Band, Quincy, IL, 1912; Hapgood's Military Band of McPherson, KS; U.S. Army Band marching down Pennsylvania Avenue; U. of Michigan Symphony Band, 1958; Burlington, Iowa Municipal Band; International Staff Band, Salvation Army, Great Britain; Territorial Staff Band of the Chicago Salvation Army; Royal Dutch Military Band; U.S. Marine Corps Band, W.F. Santelmann, leader; combined Air Force, Army, and Navy Bands' broadcast, VE Day (1945).
Folder 8: Photo Binder 3: School, Military, and Community Bands (3 of 5), ca. 1900-1954Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: U.S. Army Band; U.S. Marine Corps Band marching, ca 1950; Frederick Innes; Regimental Band of the Scots Guards; Patrick Gilmore; R.B. Hall; Victor Herbert as leader of 22nd Regiment Band; U. of Illinois Bands playing unusual instruments from A.A. Harding's collection, 1933; David Wallace Reeves; Edwin Franks Goldman; U. of Illinois Concert Bands, 56th Anniversary Concert, March 27, 1946; Victor Grabel; Col. George S. Howard, conductor, U.S. Air Force Band; U.S. Air Force Band; Edina (MO) Ladies' Band; postcards, 56th Annual Convention, American Federation of Musicians, June 1953; postcard, 57th Annual Convention, American Federation of Musicians, June 1954.
Folder 9: Photo Binder 3: School, Military, and Community Bands (4 of 5), 1870-ca. 1954Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Commander Charles Brendler, U.S. Navy Band; U.S. Navy Band, 1954; Palmyra (MO) Band, 1901 (members identified); Fifth Infantry Band, 1917; 5th Infantry Band, Camp Lincoln, IL, August, 1912; Brickyard Band, Quincy, IL, ca. 1908 (members identified); Quincy City Band, 1909; Imperial Band of Quincy (IL) (members identified); First Regiment Band, Hannibal, MO, 1898 (members identified); First Regiment Band, Hannibal, MO, 1909 (membes identified); Thomas Preston Brooke; Bowling Green, MO Band, ca. 1900; Rackett Family Orchestra and Band, Quincy, IL, 1882; Markee Family Band and Orchestra.
Folder 10: Photo Binder 3: School, Military, and Community Bands (5 of 5), 1902-1954Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Bethel Cornet Band, Bethel, MO, 1902 (members identified); band members, Notre Dame High School, Quincy, IL; Herberg's Conngold-Terrace Orchestra; article about Quincy (IL) Herald drum and bugle corps, ca. 1890s; W. Paris Chambers; American Federation of Musicians, 57th Annual Convention, June 1954; Denver Symphony Orchestra; Herbert L. Clarke; Henry Fillmore; Pat Conway, leader, Conway Band, ca. 1910; W.P. English.
Volume 4: Civil War Military Bands and Music, 1845-1962Add to your cart.
Photographs of regimental bands and musicians from Civil War period.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Photo Binder 4: Civil War Military Bands and Music (1 of 2), 1845-1955Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Joe Gorton Cornet Band, 1850; 50th Regimentl Band of Keokuk, IA, ca 1895 (members and instruments identified); article from "Sounds of John Philip Sousa"; John Ripley Morse; Band of School of Boston Harbor, 1858; Field Music, 164th New York; Military Music Headquarters, Arlington, VA; Post Musicians, Fortress Monroe; March of the Grand Army on F Street,  1865; First Indiana Heavy Artillery Band at Baton Rouge, LA, 1862; band at Fairfax, VA, 1963; Band of 67th New York Infantry; Twenty Piece Band, Oneida, NY, 1863; Allentown (PA) Band, 1852; Band of 67th New York Infantry during Civil War; Winter Headquarters, Camp Stoneman, near Washington, D.C.; Band of the Second Maine Infantry Division, 1861; Talty's Fifers and Drummers; C,R,M, Pohle, drum major, FIrst Virginia, April 1861; Zouave Band of Philadelphia's 114th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunters; Early Band, 1864; Stonewall Brigade Band, 1845; Sherman's Band, of the First Brigade, Third Division, Fifteenth Army Corps (mambers identified).
Folder 2: Photo Binder 4; Civil War Military Bands and Music (2 of 2), ca. 1860s-1962Add to your cart.
Articles and notes include: "Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War: 1862," 1961-1962l  "Civil War's Music Man"; "Illinois' Master Bandsman"; ntes from various sources on Civil War bands and others of the middle-1800s.
Volume 5: Photo Binder 5: Bands, Band Leaders and Notable Musicians, 1884-1956Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Photo Binder 5: Bands, Band Leaders and Notable Musicians (1 of 4), 1884-1954Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Municipal Band, Stony Falls, SD; Frederick Neil Innes Band; Goldman Band; U.S. Navy Band, 1959; U.S. Marine Corps Band marching in Washington, 1900; William (Billy) Northcott; Gilmore's Band, 1884; Allentown Band; Cities Service Band; Guarde Republicaine Band, Paris, France, 1954; Walter Emerson; Joliet (IL) High School Band; U. of Illinois Concert Band, 58th Anniversary Concert, 1946; Arthur Pryor, 1933; Al Sweet and band; A.R. McAllister, Edwin Franko Goldman, and A.A. Harding; photo of notable figures taken in U. of Illinois' band room, 1934; A.B. Rolfe's Independent Band, 1885; Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms; Herbert L.Clarke and Ernest H. Clarke, 1895; Herbert L. Clarke, cornet virtuoso, Sousa Band, 1916;Alesandro Liberati.
Folder 4: Photo Binder 5: Bands, Band Leaders and Notable Musicians (2 of 4), 1894-1952Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Ernst Albert Couturier, cornet virtuoso, 1930; Benjamin C. Bent; Nathan Franko Band, 1894; Walter B. Rogers, cornetist with Sousa Band; Arthur Pryor, trombone soloist, Sousa Band; John Hazel, 1915; Jules Levy, cornet soloist; Fourth Regiment National Guard Band of Missouri, 1898; Arthur Pryon Band members: Charles Thetford, John Hyer, Harold Stambaugh, Burt Smith; Arthur Pryor wiith Band; August Caputo Band; E.A. Lefebre, saxophone virtuoso, Sousa Band; Ellory Royal Marine Band, 1908; Fred Weldon, Bandmaster, 2nd Regimental Band of Illinois; Giuseppe Creatore, 1926; Giuseppe Creatore and Band, 1926; Oresto Vessello; Mathew Arbuckle, coronet soloist; Bohumir Kryl and band, 1906 (some members identified); Herbert L. Clarke and hs Muncipal Band, Long Beach, CA; Everette James,cornetist, and son Harry James, Mighty Haag Circus Band, 1922; New York World's Fair Band, 1940; Merle Evans, Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1952; Archie R. McAllister.
Folder 5: Photo Binder 5: Bands, Band Leaders and Notable Musicians (3 of 4), 1904-1955Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Robert W. Fraker; Georges Barrere and William S. Haynes; Russ Henegan, 1955; A.A. Harding; Mark Hindsley, Director, U. of Illinois Bands; Richmond, IN High School Orchestra, 1921; Harold Bachman; Eugene LaBarre; Irish Guards Band at St. Louis World's Fair, 1904; Grand Army Band of Canton, OH; Ben Ali Temple Oriental Band; Dodge City Cowboy Band; Bohumir Kryl.
Folder 6: Photo Binder 5: Bands, Band Leaders and Notable Musicians (4 of 4), 1885-1956Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Giant saxophone; Wiliam Paris Chambers; Edwin Franko Goldman; U. of Illinois Band, 1885; Richard Goldman; Flint, Michign Municipal Band,1914; Albertus L. Meyers, conductor, Allentown Municipal Band; Harold Bachman's Million Dollar Band;; Paul Lavalle, conductor, Band of America; Karl L. King, leader, Fort Dodge Municipal Band; Alessandro Liberati, cornet soloist; John J. Richards; Cities Service Band of America, Paul Lavalle, conductor; Frank Simon; Theobald Boehm.
Volume 6: Photo Binder 6: Rare Music Instruments and Historic Band Uniforms, 1848-1988Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Photo Binder 6: Rare Music Instruments and Historic Band Uniforms (1 of 2), 1848-1858Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Louis Hotterre-le-Romain, performer, One Key Flute;1899 Serpent and Brass-Keyed Bugle; Saxhorms (1840-1850); Ferveille serpent, Indian horn, Cae Anglais (English horn), Basset horn; unusual wind and brass music instruments; band of Farm and Trades School of Boston Harbor; Saxhorns (1840-1850); Gorton Cornet Band, 1850; Edward Kendall; drawing of DIstin family with Saxhorns, 1844; drawing of Adolphe Sax.
Folder 8: Photo Binder 6: Rare Music Instruments and Historic Band Uniforms (2 of 2), 1964-1988Add to your cart.
Notes, clippings from publications and newspapers, descriptions of historic instruments, drawings of historic uniforms.
Volume 7: Photo Binder 7: Early School, Military, and Notable Bands, Band Leaders and Musicians, 1850-1960Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Photo Binder 7: School, Military and Notable Bands, Band Leaders and Musicians (1 of 2), 1850-1882Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: John Stow's Circus Band Wagon, 1850; band from Farm and Trades School of Boston Harbor; John Ripley Morse; Mann Family of Platteville, first circus musicians from WI; band from Waukesha, WI; St. Mary's School Band; Ole Bull monument, Minneapolis; Ole Bull lithograph and photograph; Jenny Lind, ca. 1850; L.M. Gottschalk; Walter M. Smith; original Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1882; Thomas Orchestra, Steinway Hall, NY; Civil War drummer; drum major Patrick Yard, 1861-1865; band serenading the Colonel of the Regiment at his headquarters, Union Mill, VA, early 1862.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Photo Binder 7: Early School, Military and Notable Bands, Band Leaders and Musicians (2 of 2), 1864-1960Add to your cart.
Copies of photographs include: Band, Company C, 18th Kentucky Volunteers, June 1864; Civil War Fife and Drum Corps,; band members, 4th Michigan; P.S. Gilmore's Band, 1885; Albert C. Sweet, cornet soloist; Gilmore and Band, Madison Square Garden; Gilmore's 100 piece band, 1892; H.A. Vander Cook, founder, Vander Cook School of Music; Gilmore's 22nd Regiment Band of New York; Patrick S. Gilmore; Sgt. Charles W. Freudenvoll, Gilmore Band Bb clarinet; newspaper articles about Patrick Gilmore; Ernest S. Williams, cornetist with famous bands; Francis Scala, leader, U.S. Marine Band, 1856-1871; humorous publications.
Volume 8: History of Music in Quincy and Adams County (IL), 2010Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 2: History of Music in Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, 2010Add to your cart.
Book: authors Carl and Shirley Landrum. early history (1831-1960); recent history (1960-2010). Lists music organizations, schools and dance bands.
Volume 9: Music and Instruments: Articles, Notes, Essays and Correspondence, 1926-1961Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Music and Instruments: Articles, Notes, Essays and Correspondence, 1926-1961Add to your cart.
Sousa Band Book for drums; notes on music instruments; personal correspondence re: historic music instruments; articles from music publications and periodicals; articles and pictures of numerous historic music instruments.
Item 10: Large Photographs, 1907-1954Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Large Photographs, 1907-1954Add to your cart.
Photographs include: John Philip Sousa: Goldman Band, 1954; Sousa's Band and G.A.R. Audience, 1907.