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Group portrait of the San Jose Orchestral Society, E. L. King, conductor. These twenty-seven men took turns being photographed in one of the two tuxedos available. One man was even pulled from his sickbed, dressed in a tuxedo, propped up and posed with his instrument for the photographer. The individual photographs were then pieced together and adhered to the charcoal drawing of a grand interior space. An article in the Mercury News, dated September 9, 1998, covers the history of the photograph, donated to History San Jose by officers of Germania Verein in July 1998. The San Jose Orchestral Society was the first orchestra west of the Rockies, presenting their first annual concert before 1880. The works of Beethoven figured prominently in the orchestra's repertoire.
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