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Fashion Styles for Lady Cornetists
A skilled photographer knows the power of a glance,understands the allure of a neckline,appreciates the graceful line of arms and torso. It's the art of seduction,and the unknown photographerwho...
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A Bassoon from Down Under
Subject, Place, and Singularity.Those are the qualities that make a premium collectable photograph. The unusual subject hereis a gentleman holding a bassoon,an instrument rarely seen in cabinet card...
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Cornets and Bicycles
The owner of a long brushy mustachelives with emotions hidden under a perpetual shade tree.Whether a frown or a smile,it's all the same to the rest of the world.This gentleman's face might convey...
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Boys with Sticks 2
An Orchestral Rehearsal.“Are you ready, Shentlemen?”Addressed to Master Ray Elphickof 18 CliffeLewes (Sussex)and posted from Tooting on April 25, 1911Dear RayI thought you would like thisfor your...
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The Day the Circus Came to Town
"Say kids, if you want to have a good time and excitement enough to beat a dime novel sky high, don’t you miss that Hagenbeck Wild Animal show that’s going to come here next Saturday. I tell you kids,...
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The Well Dressed Clarinetist No. 3
Buttons, lace, braids,cords, fourragères, aiguillettescuff insignia, shoulder straps, epaulets, belt buckles, cap badges, collar dogs,feathers, plumes, and cockadeswere once standard accoutrementsof a...
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The Special Swimsuit Edition
An attractive young woman wearing a skin tight leotardssits on a wooden barrel and smiles for the camera.Today hardly anyone would take notice of such an image.She's just modelling the latest yoga...
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A Cycling Sports Band
A brace of bassoons.A double-reed duo.Two gents sit with woodwind instrumentsthat were once regularly found in military bands. especially those with a traditionthat preferred bassoons over...
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Going Home
It was spring. If the weather remained fairthe voyage would take 10 days.Normally the ship provided accommodationfor about 900 sailors,but now its crew shared their limited quarterswith nearly 1,300...
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Mademoiselle Fifi
All she wore wereflowers, balloons, and a smile.That's all you need to know.The rest is best left to the imagination. Her smile greets us on a large 8"x10' glossy.The standard publicity passportof the...
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Lost in Translation
The bearskin cap still remains the unofficial trademarkof the British army.But the bearskin hat stylewas originally French,belonging to Napoleon's Imperial Guard. After his defeat at the Battle of...
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Lessons in Swedish
Left and stretchand two...and three...and four!Right and stretchand two...and three...and four! Armée Belge - Ecole régimentaire Leçon de gymnastique suédoise ~Belgian Army - Regimental SchoolSwedish...
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Musik im Norden
It's a bit like a floral decoration.An elaborate brassy candelabra of gleaming horns and shiny tenor tubassurround a centerpiece of glockenspiel, interspersed with decorative sprigs of...
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Xylophon Kinder part 1
Emil Jahnder kleinste Xylophon-Virtuose der Gegenwart5 jahre alt~the smallest xylophone virtuoso of the present5 Years oldDressed in a military bandsman's uniform, little Emil stands proudly behind an...
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Woodwinds at the Lake
What can be more relaxing on an afternoon by the lake than listening to the mellifluous sound of a bassoon?Why listening to two bassoons!This anonymous double reed duo and their charming assistant sit...
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The Lake Park Cornet Band
It's the first thing you notice.His tall bearskin hatnearly as fuzzyas his whiskers.He's the drum major, and even without his hathe is still a hand taller than the other bandsmen. They're outdoors in a...
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Music for Monks
It's called the King of Musical Instruments.And like a king,it is all powerful.From ethereal flutes of angelsto thundering blasts of great winds,it commands our attentionwith majestic authority. It is...
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Stupefaction!
Do you ever have one of those daysthat leaves you dumbfounded for words?When terrible news hits you in the face with such force that you are stunned for something to say?There must be a word for that...
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Xylophon Kinder part 2
I think it's the tilt of her headthat makes the photo's composition so charming.Her name is Gret'l Bode,age 8, maybe 10,and she sits beside her instrument, a xylophoneatop a beautifully carved end...
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Stand Partners, A Postcard Romance
A micro story contrived from two postcards.It's the great mystery. Who will it be? When will you meet? Where will it happen? Questions endlessly replayed but never answered. You just don't know. So you...
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