Cornet Band
Description
- Creator
- Roy Purkis, Kitchener, Ontario, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Cornet band playing in park setting. Likely Waterloo Band Festival. Note badge on first man's uniform reading "Metropolitan".
- Notes
- The Waterloo Band Festival was organized by Charles F. Thiele in 1932 in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Waterloo Musical Society. The festival became an annual event at Waterloo Park from 1932 to 1940 and again from 1946 to 1958, known as Canada's premiere band festival. At times 70 bands from Ontario, Quebec, Wisconsin, Michigan, and (one year) Kamloops, BC, appeared in concerts and parades, and over the years more than 1000 contestants participated in 100 instrumental competitions.
- Inscriptions
- Handwritten on reverse; "Class of cornets 1956".
- Date of Original
- 1956
- Date Of Event
- 1956
- Dimensions
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Width: 25 cm
Height: 20 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 25cm
Image Height: 20cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Z-7-8
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.468089 Longitude: -80.528905
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- Copyright Statement
- To obtain a copy of this item and for terms of use please contact the Waterloo Public Library.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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