A sharp and rich group portrait showing Sisson's Band of Troy, Arizona. Troy was a short lived mining town located in Pinal County, AZ. Its post office was established in 1901 and discontinued in 1910. It was considered a “model mining camp” due to its ban on alcohol. With a population of about 200, the town had a school, assay laboratory, boardinghouse, store, hospital, union hall and reading room and a municipal water system.

In 1902 John W. Sisson, president of the Troy-Manhattan Copper Company, donated 24 instruments to the local music professor to form a band, on the condition that it would bear his name.