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Clinton Rexall Band

Clintonc. 1910-1918Commercially sponsored town band
Documented history with gaps
Master record058
Newspaper clipping from The Clinton News, August 28, 1913, page 1, documenting Clinton Rexall Band.

Operational evidence

Clinton Rexall Band

The Clinton Rexall Band is named in performance activity.

The Clinton News, August 28, 1913, p. 1. 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

An OHS cataloged postcard identifies the Clinton Rexall Band and E. F. Rockwood as director around 1910-1918.; A contemporary item adds exact activity evidence.

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

History

Identity and chronology

An OHS cataloged postcard identifies the Clinton Rexall Band and E. F. Rockwood as director around 1910-1918.; A contemporary item adds exact activity evidence.

Leadership

Rockwood as director around 1910-1918.

Sponsorship and participation

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

An OHS cataloged postcard identifies the Clinton Rexall Band and E. F. Rockwood as director around 1910-1918.; A contemporary item adds exact activity evidence.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    An OHS cataloged postcard identifies the Clinton Rexall Band and E. F. Rockwood as director around 1910-1918.; A contemporary item adds exact activity evidence.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Clinton Rexall Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats c. 1910-1918 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

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

Evidence

Sources

5 of 5 listed live source links resolved during the September 3, 2026 audit.

  1. 5143 sourceOklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 60; catalog 1982.115 / subgroup 6442, item 11; User-supplied newspaper corpus: NEWS-070

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