Daniel Jenkins started the orphanage band as a way to raise funds. It quickly gained popularity throughout the US – and abroad! The band mixed ragtime, march, jazz, and old-time Gullah spirituals to make an exciting, unique sound.
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In 2003, the Library of Congress added the Fox Movietone video of the Jenkins Orphanage Band to the National Film Registry, deeming it "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant." (To learn more about this little known fact, load this PDF file from The Fort Jackson Leader and scroll down to page seven.)
Interestingly, this film reel – as well as others from Fox Movietone – are housed in a bunker at South Carolina's very own Fort Jackson.
This photo is a frame from the Jenkins Orphanage Band Video in the Fox Movietone News Collection at the University of South Carolina's Newsfilm Library.
SCIway thanks the library for providing this historic photo, and for allowing us to share it with our visitors.
Read our article: Orphanage Band Instrumental in Jenkins' Past and Future.
See more pictures of the Jenkins Orphanage & Jenkins Institute.
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