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London Metropolitan Archives

ITALIAN CARABINIERI BAND


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4247

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ITALIAN CARABINIERI BAND

Date(s): 1918

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.04 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A Carabinieri Band is an Italian uniformed marching band. The first Carabinieri band was founded in 1820 by the Royal Carabinieri Corps. This band first toured in 1916 to raise money for wounded Allied soldiers.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection comprises one photograph showing an Italian Carabinieri band marching down Cockspur Street, Pall Mall c 1918.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The photograph was gifted to London Metropolitan Archives in February 2000 and came from a collection of Folkestone photographs donated to Kent County Archives by a relative of one of the staff at the Italian Consulate in Folkestone.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Brass bands | Wind bands | Bands | Musical performers | Performers | Artists
Italian (cultural identity) | National identity | Cultural nationalism | Cultural identity
Military bands | Bands | Musical performers | Performers | Artists
Photographs | Visual materials

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Pall Mall | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe