Big Red Band records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-6-3112

Scope and content

"Big Red Band Notes," newsletters; "Through the years with the Cornell University Big Red Marching Band," 1990; clippings; t-shirts, 1983, 2001-2003; and alumni visor hat. Also, movie films of band shows from the late 1940s through the late 1950s, and Big Red Marching Band CDs 1997, 2007, 2008. 16mm motion picture films are in color and black and white. Includes footage of the bannd at Niagara, Princeton, Columbia 1948; University of Pennsylvania, n.d.; Presidential Review, 20 May, 1954; Coumbia 1 November 1958; Penn. crew formation. Other reels are unidentified.

Scope and content

Includes files, photographs, scrapbooks, and recordings.

Scope and content

Also, a clarinet played by Matthew Palumbo; its bell cracked from the cold at a home football game in 1981.

Dates

1921-2009.

Creator

Cornell University. Big Red Marching Band (Organization)
Palumbo, Matthew. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

7.9 cubic feet. (7.5 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Material documenting the history of the Cornell University Big Red Marching Band, including print and audio visual items.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Photo Albums and Scrapbooks

Boxes 1-2Box 3 Folders 1-13Box 8, 2 AlbumsBox 9, 10

Series II. Photographs not in Albums

Box 3 Folders 14, 16-20, 22-83Box 4 Folders 1-18, 30

Series III. Miscellaneous

Box 3 Folder 15, 21Box 4 Folders 19-29, 31-36Box 6, Bow, Buttons, 4 Plaques

Series IV. Media

Box 5, 5 tapes, 16 CDs Box 6, 3 VHS, 1 BETABox 7, Reel to Reel Film, 5 Mini-Records, 17 Records, Box 12, 12 reels.