A bandbox is a
hat box
A hat box (also commonly hatbox and sometimes hat bucket, hat tin or bandbox) is a container for storing and transporting headgear, protecting it from damage and dust. A more generic term for a box used to carry garments, including headgear, is ...
, or a small
baseball park
A ballpark, or baseball park, is a type of sports venue where baseball is played. The playing field is divided into two field sections called the infield and the outfield. The infield is an area whose dimensions are rigidly defined in part ba ...
. Bandbox, band box or band-box may also refer to:
Arts
*''Bandbox'', a 1912 novel by
Louis Joseph Vance
Louis Joseph Vance (September 19, 1879 – December 16, 1933) was an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer. He created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as the Lone Wolf.
Early life
Louis J ...
* ''
The Bandbox'', a 1919 American silent mystery crime film
*''Bandbox: A Novel'', a 2004 novel by
Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the "bystanders" to larger historic ...
* Bandbox, a type of automaton
jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a user-selected song from a self-contained media library. Traditional jukeboxes contain records, compact discs, or digital files, and allow user ...
made by Chicago Coin Co.
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Bentley's Bandbox'', an Australian television series which aired in 1960
* "
Story of the Bandbox", an 1878 story by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Variety Bandbox
''Variety Bandbox'' is a BBC Radio variety show transmitted initially in the General Forces Programme and then the Light Programme. Featuring a mixture of comic performances and music, the show helped to launch the careers of a number of leadi ...
'', a BBC Radio variety show (1944–1952)
Places
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Band Box (music club), next to
Birdland (New York jazz club)
Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one ...
on 52nd Street in New York City
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The Band Box, an outdoor restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee
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Band Box Diner, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Bandbox Theatre, formerly
Adolf Philipp
Adolf Philipp, also known as Adolph Philipp (January 29, 1864 – July 30, 1936), was a successful Broadway composer, writer, lyricist, director, and performer. He used the pseudonyms Jean Briquet and Paul Hervé as well as his own name.
Biography ...
's playhouse, on East 57th Street, New York City
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Baker Bowl
National League Park, commonly referred to as the Baker Bowl after 1923, was a baseball stadium home to the Philadelphia Phillies from 1887 until 1938, and the first home field of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1933 to 1935. It opened in 1887 with ...
, a former baseball field in Philadelphia nicknamed The Band Box
Other uses
* Bandbox, a graphical user interface
interaction technique
An interaction technique, user interface technique or input technique is a combination of hardware and software elements that provides a way for computer users to accomplish a single task. For example, one can go back to the previously visited p ...
that involves drawing a box around objects to select them
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Control and Reporting Centre
A Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) is according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff publication 1.02 defined as: "A subordinated air control element of the tactical air control centre for which radar control and warning operations are conducted within ...
at the Air Operations Control Station Nieuw-Milligen, Netherlands (call sign "bandbox")
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Bandbox Plot
The Bandbox Plot of 4 November 1712, was an attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, the British Lord Treasurer, which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift (author of ''Gulliver's Travels''), who happened to be visiting ...
, a 1712 attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
See also
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