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Elk City Band

Elk CityActive 1914Town band
Documented history with gaps
Master record083
Newspaper clipping from The Daily Oklahoman, September 27, 1910, page 4, documenting Oklahoma City Metropolitan Band; Elk City, Nowata, Thomas, Hobart, Poteau, and Chilocco bands.

Operational evidence

Oklahoma City Metropolitan Band; Elk City, Nowata, Thomas, Hobart, Poteau, and Chilocco bands

A fair report names the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Band and bands from multiple towns and Chilocco.

The Daily Oklahoman, September 27, 1910, 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

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Elk City Band in Elk City and gives the evidence date as Active 1914.; A multi-band fair report supplies additional activity evidence.

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 Elk City Band in Elk City and gives the evidence date as Active 1914.; A multi-band fair report supplies additional activity evidence.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Elk City Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Elk City. 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 Elk City Band in Elk City and gives the evidence date as Active 1914.; A multi-band fair report supplies additional activity evidence.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Elk City Band in Elk City and gives the evidence date as Active 1914.; A multi-band fair report supplies additional activity evidence.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Elk City Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active 1914 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Elk City 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-084).

  1. W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in OklahomaBook addendum, pp. 56–58; user-supplied newspaper corpus: NEWS-084

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