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Seattle Police Department Band, 1915 (MOHAI 12957)
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Seattle's Police Department Band started out by playing Sunday evening concerts at police headquarters. By the 1920s, they marched in city parades, played for city celebrations, played concerts in parks, and participated in funeral ceremonies for fallen comrades.
This 1915 image shows the members of the Seattle Police Department Band posed on the sidewalk outside department headquarters. That year, the band participated in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition world's fair in San Francisco. The bass drum at the left bears the logo of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle's own world's fair.
Handwritten on image: W.G. Matthews, 1915.
Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, February 25, 1913 and September 21, 1915.
Subjects (LCTGM): Bands--Washington (State)--Seattle; Clarinets; Seattle (Wash.). Police Department; Trombones; Trumpets; Tubas; Uniforms
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