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Blackburn Band

BlackburnActive by June 1900Town or civic band
Documented history with gaps
Master record156
Newspaper clipping from The Pawnee Dispatch, June 1, 1900, page 4, documenting First Regiment Band of Guthrie; Blackburn Band; Pawnee Band.

Operational evidence

Fourth of July event advertisement

The First Regiment Band of Guthrie and the Blackburn and Pawnee bands were advertised to furnish music for a local celebration.

The Pawnee Dispatch, June 1, 1900, p. 4. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

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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

A Pawnee celebration advertisement names the Blackburn Band as one of three ensembles engaged to furnish music.

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

History

Identity and chronology

A Pawnee celebration advertisement names the Blackburn Band as one of three ensembles engaged to furnish music.

Leadership

The reviewed evidence for Blackburn Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Sponsorship and participation

Blackburn Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Blackburn. 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

A Pawnee celebration advertisement names the Blackburn Band as one of three ensembles engaged to furnish music.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    A Pawnee celebration advertisement names the Blackburn Band as one of three ensembles engaged to furnish music.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Blackburn Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by June 1900 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Blackburn Band: confirm full active span, directors, membership, sponsorship, performances, and successor organizations.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled in the saved source corpus (The Pawnee Dispatch, 1900-06-01 p.4). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. The Pawnee Dispatch, 1900-06-01 p.4

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