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Title
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Coon-Sanders Band
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Description
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Exterior view of Coon-Sanders Band. Identified in Fred Edmiston's book The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks as left to right: Bill Haid, John Thiell, Joe Richolson, Joe Sanders, Carleton Coon, Orville Knapp, Harold Thiell, Nick Musolino, and Pop Estep at Niles. Michigan in 1925.
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Carleton Coon and Orville Knapp
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Description
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View of Carleton Coon pushing a wheel barrow with Orville Knapp seated in it. Location is Niles, Michigan, taken while the band was on tour. Sanders in his scrapbook captions the photo: "Orville undergoing his strenuous daily constitutional - doing nothing! Niles, Michigan."
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders and Orville Knapp
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Description
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Exterior view of reeds player Orville Knapp on the left and Joe Sanders on the right. Sanders captions the photo in his scrapbook: "A great picture of Knapp, engaged in an old Swedish custom with me." According to Edmiston's book, p. 328 - "Orville Knapp played reeds...After he left Coon-Sanders in the summer of 1925, he eventually clicked with his own band that he started in 1934." His career was cut short when the airplane he was piloting crashed on July 16, 1936, near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Date
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1924-09
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Object Type
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Photograph
