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Farry Concert Band

Farryc. 1900Concert band
Documented history with gaps
Master record056

Image status

Photograph withheld

C: Rights confirmation required — not cleared for publication.

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Documented overview

An OHS glass-plate catalog record identifies the Farry Concert Band around 1900.

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

History

Identity and chronology

An OHS glass-plate catalog record identifies the Farry Concert Band around 1900.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Farry Concert Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Farry. 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 glass-plate catalog record identifies the Farry Concert Band around 1900.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    An OHS glass-plate catalog record identifies the Farry Concert Band around 1900.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

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

What remains unknown

For Farry Concert 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 in the saved source corpus (Oklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 43; catalog 20736.TO.F019.76.1, item 87). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. 5143 sourceOklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 43; catalog 20736.TO.F019.76.1, item 87

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