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Durant Cornet Band

Durant1890sCornet or civic band
Documented history with gaps
Master record278
Newspaper clipping from The M Alester News Capital, April 20, 1897, page 1, documenting Durant Cornet Band.

Operational evidence

Durant Cornet Band

The Durant Cornet Band is named in actual activity.

The M Alester News Capital, April 20, 1897, 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

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-083.

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

History

Identity and chronology

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-083.

Leadership

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity

Sponsorship and participation

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

Adult or mixed-age status not established.

Activity

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-083.

Why this band matters

Stable named Oklahoma ensemble documented by contemporary primary evidence.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-083.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Durant Cornet Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1890s as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Durant Cornet Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled in the saved source corpus (Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-083). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-083

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