Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• SERIES LIST
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Big Red Band records, 1921-2009.
Collection Number: 37-6-3112

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Photo Albums and Scrapbooks
Box 10	Folder Album 1	Cornell Band (Part I of II)	1905-1952
Box 10	Folder Album 2	Cornell Band (Part II of II)	1949-1952
Box 10	Folder Album 3	Cornell Band	1952-1953
Box 10	Folder Album 4	Cornell Band	1955-1957
Box 10	Folder Album 5	Cornell Band	1957-1962
Box 10	Folder Album 6	Cornell Band	1982-1984
Box 11	Folder 1-9	Photographs- Scrapbook	1981
Box 11	Folder 10-14	Photographs- Scrapbook	1981
Box 11	Folder 15-24	Photographs- Scrapbook	1985
Box 11	Folder 25-32	Photographs- Scrapbook	1986
Box 11	Folder 33-46	Presenting the Big Red Band and Alumni Band	1987
Box 11	Folder 47-61	Cornell Big Red Marching Band: The Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy League	1991
Box 11	Folder 62-74	The Only REAL Yearbook of the Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy League Part I	1992-1993
Box 11	Folder 75-91	The Only REAL Yearbook of the Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy League Part II	1992-1993
Box 14	Folder 1	Big Red Band scrapbook	1992
Box 14	Folder 2	Big Red Band scrapbook	1992
Box 11	Folder 92-106	Big Red Band scrapbook	1994
Box 8	Folder Album 1	The Only REAL Yearbook of the Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy Leauge	1995
Box 8	Folder Album 2	Big Red Band scrapbook	1997-1998
Box 14	Folder 3	Big Red Band scrapbook	1998
Box 14	Folder 4	Big Red Band scrapbook	1998
Box 11	Folder 107-108	The Cornell University Big Red Marching Band: Volume I	2000
Box 3	Folder 1-12	The Cornell University Big Red Marching Band: Volume II	2000
Box 3	Folder 13	The Cornell University Big Red Marching Band: Volume III	2000
Box 11	Folder 109-110	Big Red Band scrapbook	2000
Box 14	Folder 5	Big Red Band scrapbook	2000
Box 14	Folder 6	Big Red Band scrapbook	2001
Box 14	Folder 7	Big Red Band scrapbook	2001
Box 14	Folder 8	Big Red Band scrapbook	2002
Box 14	Folder 9	Big Red Band scrapbook	2002
Box 14	Folder 10	Big Red Band scrapbook	2002
Box 14	Folder 11	Big Red Band scrapbook	2002
Box 14	Folder 12	Big Red Band scrapbook	2003
Box 14	Folder 13	Big Red Band scrapbook	2004
Box 14	Folder 14	Big Red Band scrapbook	2004
Box 14	Folder 15	Big Red Band scrapbook	2004
Box 14	Folder 16	Big Red Band scrapbook	2004
Box 14	Folder 17	Big Red Band scrapbook	2005
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2005
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2006
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2007
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2008
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2009
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2011
Box 15		Big Red Band scrapbook	2013
		Series II. Photographs not in Albums
Box 3	Folder 14	Photographs	1921-1925
Box 3	Folder 16	Photographs	1936-1946
Box 3	Folder 17	Negatives	1946
Box 3	Folder 18	Photographs	1947-1948
Box 3	Folder 19	Gerald Gordon Photographs	1951-1954
Box 3	Folder 20	Photographs	1953-1958
Box 3		Slides	1957
Box 4	Folder 20	Big Red Band Negatives	1959-1960
	DVD-4152	Cornell scenes photographs	Spring and Fall
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Scope and Contents Photos taken by Harvey Rothschild, class of 1963
Box 16	Folder 2	Printed copies of Cornell scenes photographs	Spring and Fall
		Scope and Contents Photos were originally taken by Harvey Rothschild, class of 1963
Box 3	Folder 22	Photographs	1961-1966
Box 3	Folder 23	Photographs	1972-1973
Box 3	Folder 24-28	Photographs	1973
Box 3	Folder 29	Snapshot Photographs	1974
Box 3	Folder 30	Unlabled Photographs	1976-1980
Box 3	Folder 31	Unlabled Negatives	1976-1980
Box 3	Folder 32	Colgate/Cornell	1981
Box 3	Folder 33	Big Red Band Storms Lake Placid	1981
Box 3	Folder 34	Misc.	1981
Box 3	Folder 35	Photographs	1982-1983
Box 3	Folder 36	Photographs	1984
Box 3	Folder 37	Slides	October 1984
Box 3	Folder 38	Photographs	1984
Box 3	Folder 39	Photographs	1986-1990
Box 3	Folder 40	Photographs	1986
Box 3	Folder 41	Photographs	1988
Box 3	Folder 42-49	Big Red Band Photographs	1989
Box 3	Folder 50	Photographs	1989-1990
Box 3	Folder 51	Slides	December 1990
Box 3	Folder 52	Photographs	Early 1990s
Box 3	Folder 53	Photographs	September 1992
Box 3	Folder 54	Photographs	1992
Box 3	Folder 55	Photographs	1993
Box 3	Folder 56-57	Big Red Band	1994-1995
Box 3	Folder 58	Photographs	1995
Box 3	Folder 59	Photographs	1995
Box 3	Folder 60-67	Photographs	1996
Box 3	Folder 68-82	Photographs	1996
Box 3	Folder 83	Photographs	1996
Box 4	Folder 1	Big Red Band Photographs	1996
Box 4	Folder 2	Big Red Band Photographs	1996
Box 4	Folder 3	Photographs	1997
Box 4	Folder 4	Photographs	1998
Box 16	Folder 5	Sy Katz Parade photos	1998-2012
Box 4	Folder 5	Photographs	2000
Box 4	Folder 6	Photographs-Cornell Pep Band	2001
Box 4	Folder 7	Photographs	2001
Box 4	Folder 8	Photographs	2002
Box 15		Big Red Band photographs	2005
	DVD-4149	Big Red Band photos of first rehearsal, auditions, band camp, Brown, Bucknell, Columbia, Yale and first night	2009
	DVD-4150	Big Red Band photos of Cornell Days, Harvard, first marching practice, homecoming, March to North, Montreal	2009
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
	DVD-4151	Big Red Band photos of Stewart Park, Penn, Princeton, recruitment, semi-formal and spring concert	2009
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 4	Folder 9	Big Red Band Panorama Copies
Box 4	Folder 10	Section Photographs
Box 4	Folder 11	Trombones
Box 4	Folder 12-14	Big Red Band Photographs
Box 4	Folder 15-18	Big Red Band Photographs
Box 4	Folder 19	Big Red Band Large Print Group Photograph
Box 4	Folder 21-25	Big Red Band Photographs
Box 9		Oversize band photos see CD-1671 in Box 5 for a CD with scanned images of these photos	1914-1970s
Box 5	CD-1671	CD of scanned images of the oversize photographs found in box 9	1914-1970s
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 15		Oversized photos and panoramas of the band	Undated
Box 16	Folder 1	Big Red Band photos	1956-2010
Box 16	Folder 3-4	Big Red Band photographs	Undated
Box 9		Cornell ROTC Band photograph	1943
		Series III. Miscellaneous
Box 6		Plaque: Freshman Bandsmen of the Year	1956-1972
Box 16		Plaque: The Kappa Kappa Psi Outstanding Spirit Award	1962-1967
Box 6		Plaque: Cornell Big Red Band Freshman of the Year	1985-1997
Box 6		Plaque: Cornell Big Red Band Seniors of the Year	1985-1997
Box 14		Plaque: NYSPC Hilton Show	2011-03-05
		Scope and Contents Second place
Box 3	Folder 15	New York Central Train dinner menu	October 9, 1938
Box 4	Folder 34	Articles and clippings	1938-1988
Box 4	Folder 40	Brochures, schedules, fliers, programs	1938-2006
Box 4	Folder 32	History and Organization of Band Committee	1947-1948
Box 3	Folder 21	Publicity	1960s-1980s
Box 4	Folder 35	Half Time Shows	1975-1983
Box 4	Folder 36	Meeting Minutes, Constitutions, Certificates, etc.	1977-1998
Box 4	Folder 37	Big Red Band Notes	1981-2001
Box 4	Folder 27	Big Red Band Notes	1989-2004
Box 1		Big Red Band Notes	1990-1998
Box 4	Folder 38	Big Red Band Notes	2009, 2012
Box 16	Folder 6	Band staff minutes	1991-1993
Box 16	Folder 7	Band staff minutes	1994-1997
Box 4	Folder 28	Final Exams	1982-1999
Box 4	Folder 29	Final Exams	1982
Box 1		Fall final exam	1983
Box 4	Folder 30	Band Finals
Box 4	Folder 43	Correspondence	1969-1981
Box 4	Folder 42	Correspondence	1982-1992
Box 4	Folder 31	Correspondence, Constitutions, Publications, Programs, Scripts, Schedules, Rosters	1980s
Box 16	Folder 29	Correspondence, memos, speeches	1987-2019
Box 4	Folder 33	Correspondence, meeting minutes, rosters, schedules, by-laws	1990s
Box 1		Misc. Correspondence	1990s
Box 13	MU-2914	Clarinet played by Matthew Palumbo	1981
Box 4	Folder 41	Sheet Music and Marching Diagrams	1983, 1937-1938
Box 2		Five shirts and a hat	1983-1984
		Scope and Contents Includes "I Played at Carnegie Hall" shirts. Cornell Museum items ids 1243, 1244, 1185-1188
Box 4	Folder 39	Phone lists and rosters	1984-2000
Box 6		Band Seniors Bow	1986
Box 15		Drawing done for Big Red Band similar to a New Yorker magazine cover	1987-12-05
		Biographical / Historical Created by Victor Seidel for 1988 Homecoming
Box 16	Folder 26	Big Red Band Alumni Association Directory	1992-10
Box 15		Daily Sun article	2000-09-21
Box 16	Folder 28	Big Red Band Alumni Association meeting	2004-02-28
Box 6		The Big Red Roof Inn buttons given to the band	2005
Box 16	Folder 25	Schedule	2013
Box 16	Folder 30	Road trip itinerary	2013-11
Box 4	Folder 26	Harry Chapin Letter
Box 15		Print outs of displays	Undated
Box 16	Folder 27	Big Red Band drawings and artwork	Undated
Box 6		Plaque: Bandsmen of the Year	1956-1972
		Series IV. Media
Box 7	SR-1202	Record: Cornell University Concert Band, Cornell Radio Guild Inc., William A. Campbell, conductor.	1951
Box 7	SR-1203	Record: Cornell University Concert Band	1959
Box 7	SR-1204	Record: Cornell University Concert Band, Bailey Hall	March 13, 1960
Box 7	SR-1205	Record: Cornell University Wind Ensemble, Marice Stith, conductor, Bailey Hall	March 9, 1969
Box 7	SR-1206	Record: Cornell University Wind Ensemble, Marice Stith, conductor, Bailey Hall	June 8, 1969
Box 7	SR-1207	Record: Cornell University Symphonic Band, Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall	November 15, 1971
Box 7	SR-1208	Record: Cornell University Wind Ensemble, Bailey Hall	March 6, 1977
Box 7	SR-1209	Record: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band, Bailey Hall	November 15, 1977
Box 7	SR-1210	Record: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band Presents: Fight Songs of the North East	1977
		Scope and Contents Features the band playing fight songs from Cornell, Army, boston college, Boston University, Brown, Bucknell, Columbia, Colgate, Dartmouth, Harvard, Holy Cross, Navy, Penn State, Pennsylvania University, Princeton, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, Vermont, Villanova, West Virginia and Yale.
Box 7	SR-1211, 1212	Record: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1981
Box 7	SR-1213, 1214	Record: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1984
Box 7	SR-1215, 1216	Record: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1985
Box 7	SR-1217-1221	45s: The Big Red Band is on the loose (5 copies)	1986
Box 7	SR-1222, 1223	Record: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1988
Box 7	SR-31434	Cornell Big Red Football Band	1954
Box 7	SR-31435	Cornell Symphonic Band	1948-1959
Box 7	SR-31436	Cornell University Symphonic Band - performance in Bailey Hall	1962-01-07
Box 7	SR-31437	Cornell Music - Cornell Glee Club, Chimes, Concert Band	1950
		Cornell Alumni Association
Box 7	SR-31438	Cornell University Concert Band	1959
Box 7	SR-31439-31440	Cornell 1955 Concert Band	1955
Box 5	TR-9312	Tape: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band, empty case	1992
Box 5	TR-9313, 9314	Tape: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1995
Box 5	TR-9315, 9316	Tape: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1996
Box 5	TR-9317	Tape: Cornell University Symphonic Band, Bailey Hall	May 5, 1996
Box 5	CD-1655, 1656	CD: Through the years with the Cornell University Big Red Marching Band" (2 copies)	1996
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Scope and Contents Features recordings of the band from 1967 to 1996
Box 5	CD-1657, 1670	CD: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	1997
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1658	CD: Live at Lynah, recording made during hockey games at Lynah Rink, also includes radio play by play.	November 7-8, 1997
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1659	CD: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band	1999
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1660	CD: Big Red Marching Band	2000
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1661	CD: Big Red Marching Band	2001
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1662	CD: Voices of the Faithful, recording made during hockey games at Lynah Rink, cover features the hockey team holding band instruments.	February 1-2, 2002
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1663	CD: Cornell University Big Red Marching Band	2002
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1664, 1665	CD: Fall Big Red Marching Band (2 copies)	Fall 2003
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1666, 1667	CD: Fall Big Red Marching Band	Fall 2004
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1668	Big Red Marching Band	2007
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1669	Big Red Marching Band	2008
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 5	CD-1666, 1667	Fall Big Red Marching Band	Fall 2004
Box 12	F-370	Film can and leader is labeled Cornell Band Roll. 1 Niagara, Princeton, Columbia, reel itself is labeled 1937 Syracuse, Colgate, Columbia, but may be a reused reel.	1949
Box 12	F-371	Label on can says early before 1953? band day. Reel itself says "This is Cornell" R-1. Footage is in color.	Before 1953?
Box 12	F-372	Navy at Ithaca	October 4, 1952
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Scope and Contents Includes footage of Bill the Goat the live Navy mascot and also Touchdown the Cornell bear costumed human in addition to the band formations. May include footage from other games as well.
Box 12	F-373	Presidential Review	May 20, 1954
Box 12	F-385	Navy at Ithaca	October 6, 1956
Box 12	F-374	Penn at Philadelphia	November 22, 1956
Box 12	F-375	Unknown game at Cornell, date based on formation spelling out 1956. Footage shows the opposing team's band performance as well as Cornell's. Color.	1956?
		Scope and Contents Use DVD-764
Box 12	F-376	Columbia at Columbia	November 1, 1958
Box 12	F-377	Princeton at Cornell, includes card listing formations, also labeled as Fall Weekend 1958-59, Lionel Hampton, Dad's Day	October 25, 1958
Box 12	F-378	Penn, includes car noting formations	1958-1959?
Box 12	F-379	Unlabeled 7" reel
Box 12	F-380	Unlabeled 7" reel
Box 12	F-381	Unlabeled 7" reel
Box 7	F-382	Unlabeled 10.5" reel
Box 6	V-5975	BETA: Cornell Band	November 7, 1990
		Betacam
Box 6	V-5976-5978	VHS: Cornell University Marching Band, Halftime of Pittsburgh Steelers at Buffalo Bills game (3 copies)	September 30, 2001
Box 5	DVD-764	Big Red Band records	Undated
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
	DVD-4146-4148	Big Red Band videos	2009
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
Box 7	SR-34051	Big Red Marching Band	1966
		Scope and Contents Conducted by Marice Stith.
		Series V. Manager Notebooks
Box 16	Folder 8	Head manager notebook	1984
Box 16	Folder 9	Head manager notebook	1986
Box 16	Folder 10	Head manager notebook	1987-1988
Box 16	Folder 11	Head manager notebook	1987-1990
Box 16	Folder 12	Head manager notebook	1999-2001
Box 16	Folder 13	Head manager notebook	2000
Box 16	Folder 14	Head manager notebook	2000-2001
Box 16	Folder 15	Head manager notebook	2002
Box 16	Folder 16	Head manager notebook	2003
Box 16	Folder 17	Head manager notebook	2004
Box 16	Folder 18	Head manager notebook	2005
Box 16	Folder 19	Head manager notebook	2006
Box 16	Folder 20	Head manager notebook	2008
Box 16	Folder 21	Head manager notebook	2011
Box 16	Folder 22	Head manager notebook	2013
Box 16	Folder 23	Head manager notebook	2014
Box 16	Folder 24	Head manager notebook	2015
		Series VI. Webcrawls
		Big Red Bands Alumni Association website crawl
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Big Red Bands
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Big Red Marching Band Historian
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Big Red Marching Band
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Big Red Pep Band
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.