American Historical Ephemera and Photography

3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. mounted albumen photograph (toning, clipped edges). Credited to Davidson on affixed paper label to verso along with pencil inscription reading "First Cross Roads Band / Taken about 1868." Pictured is a band of about 14 people, most holding brass horns, standing outside of a brick building with an American flag positioned to one side of the group.

The image was reproduced in the Tuesday, 29 November 1949 issue of TheGazette and Daily (York, PA) with the following caption: "Cross Roads band of 1868 is pictured above. Members were, left to right: First row, W. S. logan, William Stabley, John Hershner, Clate Miller and James Alexander; second row, Henry Mitzel, James Smith, Richard Brenneman, Albert Brenneman and D. D. Trout, and third row, John Mitzel, Henry Stabley, Dan Glessick and Joe Alexander. This is another in the series of old-time pictures The Gazette and Daily is publishing from time to time."

A fully separated copy of the image and caption from The Gazette and Daily is included in this lot along with a handwritten list of the names and a photocopy of the newspaper clipping.