Finding Aid for Carl Landrum Historical Bands Collection, 1845-2010 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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

Browse by Volume:

[Volume 1: John Philip Sousa and His Band, 1868-1987],
[Volume 2: John Philip Sousa, Personal and Band Photos, 1888-1932],
[Volume 3: School, Military and Community Bands, 1870-1979],
[Volume 4: Civil War Military Bands and Music, 1845-1962],
[Volume 5: Photo Binder 5: Bands, Band Leaders and Notable Musicians, 1884-1956],
[Volume 6: Photo Binder 6: Rare Music Instruments and Historic Band Uniforms, 1848-1988],
[Volume 7: Photo Binder 7: Early School, Military, and Notable Bands, Band Leaders and Musicians, 1850-1960],
[Volume 8: History of Music in Quincy and Adams County (IL), 2010],
[Volume 9: Music and Instruments: Articles, Notes, Essays and Correspondence, 1926-1961],
[Item 10: Large Photographs, 1907-1954],
[All]

Volume 4: Civil War Military Bands and Music, 1845-1962

Photographs of regimental bands and musicians from Civil War period.

Box 2

Folder 1: Photo Binder 4: Civil War Military Bands and Music (1 of 2), 1845-1955: 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-1962: 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.