Fredericksburg Military Band, circa 1915

How does a marching brass band cross an unbridged Ozark river? On a cable-driven ferry, of course. 

This sharp focus cabinet photograph preserves the record of a lost musical tradition and a vanished transportation technology. 

In its entry about Fredericksburg, the Gasconade Historical Society documents the population of the tiny village in 1879 population at 40. It likely never much exceeded that. 

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