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.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : b&w ; 17 x 9.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
