c. 1916—Chicago, Illinois

A photograph of Chicago Salvation Army Band members shows tuba, trombone, horns, trumpets, and cornet (see below image; public domain) (Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0066937. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society). The related quote by George Bernard Shaw, from only a few years earlier, is “Many a sinner has played himself into heaven on the trombone, thanks to the Salvation Army” (1907).