Liberty Cornet Band Minutes and Membership Book

Liberty Cornet Band (West Chester, Pa.)
African-Americans--Chester County, Pa.--Music
African-American musicians--Pennsylvania--Chester County
Band musicians--Pennsylvania--Chester County
Musicians--Pennsylvania-Chester County
Music--20th century
Cornet music

This digitized volume contains the meeting minutes of the Liberty Cornet Band dating from 1920-1932 and 1937, and includes the names of appointed officers and members of the band. In addition to documenting specific motions and actions taken by band members, the volume records paid membership dues/fees, voting results, plans for future performances, mention of committee reports, personnel issues (i.e. fines to band members), administrative costs, performance venues, and concert ticket sales/costs. An index to the band’s cash accounts is listed on the verso of the front cover, and these cash account inventories include the band’s monthly receipts and expenses. Noted band members in this volume include the following three Presidents: Alfred Bowman (1923), Jacob Milby (1924-1930), and Herman Ray (1930-1932). William H. Burton, a teacher at West Chester’s Gay Street School and later a professor at Cheney University, served as the band’s Secretary from 1927 to 1932.

Liberty Cornet Band

1920-1932, 1937

Chester County (Pa.)

Text

Administrative Records

application/pdf

2021.5000.10

2021.5000.10

English

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Chester County History Center

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.