Photograph of Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters Brass Band
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photograph of Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters Brass Band

Harry C. Ellis, American, 1857 - ca. 1928 · ca. 1918

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A black-and-white photograph of the famous 369th infantry's brass band performing at the American Red Cross Hospital Number 5, in Paris, France. The band is performing outdoors, seated in chairs arranged in a half circle around leader Jim Europe. An audience of other soldiers are scattered throughout the image, some lounge on the grass in the foreground and others stand behind the band in the background.

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