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Bartlesville Cornet Band

BartlesvilleDate not statedCornet band
Documented history with gaps
Master record067
Newspaper clipping from The Weekly Examiner, March 27, 1896, page 2, documenting Bartlesville Cornet Band.

Operational evidence

Bartlesville Cornet Band

The Bartlesville Cornet Band held an organizational meeting.

The Weekly Examiner, March 27, 1896, p. 2. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-161 · High confidence · 2691 × 936 JPEG

Underlying newspaper issue published before 1923; public-domain publication. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, and Gateway credit retained under current Gateway citation guidance.

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Documented overview

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Bartlesville Cornet Band in Bartlesville and gives the evidence date as Date not stated.; Three meeting notices document organizational activity.

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Bartlesville Cornet Band in Bartlesville and gives the evidence date as Date not stated.; Three meeting notices document organizational activity.

Leadership

Three meeting notices document organizational activity.

Sponsorship and participation

Bartlesville Cornet Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Bartlesville. Municipal ownership, public funding, and organizational continuity are not inferred from a town name alone.

Adult or plausibly adult; exact participation model may remain unverified.

Activity

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Bartlesville Cornet Band in Bartlesville and gives the evidence date as Date not stated.; Three meeting notices document organizational activity.

Why this band matters

Named Oklahoma community or municipal ensemble with durable evidence (Bartlesville Cornet Band).

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Bartlesville Cornet Band in Bartlesville and gives the evidence date as Date not stated.; Three meeting notices document organizational activity.

    Source 1

Primary-source images

Newspaper evidence

These article images document the named band or event. They are evidence pages, not standalone photographs of the ensemble.

Newspaper clipping from The Weekly Examiner, March 19, 1897, page 4, documenting Bartlesville Cornet Band.

Operational evidence

Bartlesville Cornet Band

The Bartlesville Cornet Band held an organizational meeting.

The Weekly Examiner, March 19, 1897, p. 4. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-162 · High confidence · 2989 × 979 JPEG

Underlying newspaper issue published before 1923; public-domain publication. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, and Gateway credit retained under current Gateway citation guidance.

Open full-resolution article imageGateway citation guidance
Newspaper clipping from The Weekly Examiner, May 14, 1897, page 4, documenting Bartlesville Cornet Band.

Operational evidence

Bartlesville Cornet Band

The Bartlesville Cornet Band held an organizational meeting.

The Weekly Examiner, May 14, 1897, p. 4. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-163 · High confidence · 3036 × 1154 JPEG

Underlying newspaper issue published before 1923; public-domain publication. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, and Gateway credit retained under current Gateway citation guidance.

Open full-resolution article imageGateway citation guidance

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Bartlesville Cornet Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Date not stated as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Bartlesville Cornet Band: confirm founding and closing dates, directors, membership, sponsorship, performances, and any successor organization from primary sources.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled against W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in Oklahoma (book addendum, pp. 56–58), and the user-supplied newspaper corpus (NEWS-161, NEWS-162, NEWS-163).

  1. W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in OklahomaBook addendum, pp. 56–58; user-supplied newspaper corpus: NEWS-161, NEWS-162, NEWS-163

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