Military and Veterans Bands

First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department

Ardmore1907Fire-department and regiment band

Documented history with gaps

Master record055

Image status

Photograph withheld

C: Rights confirmation required — not cleared for publication.

How image decisions work

Documented overview

An OHS catalog photograph explicitly identifies the First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department in 1907.

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

History

Identity and chronology

An OHS catalog photograph explicitly identifies the First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department in 1907.

Leadership

The reviewed evidence for First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Sponsorship and participation

First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department is treated as a military or veterans ensemble under the unit, post, ship, or veterans affiliation stated in its name and evidence. The packet does not infer a different command relationship or uninterrupted unit lineage.

Adult or plausibly adult; exact participation model may remain unverified.

Activity

An OHS catalog photograph explicitly identifies the First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department in 1907. The image is evidence of the depicted occasion or group, not proof of a founding date or continuous operation.

Why this band matters

Named military unit, lineage, or veterans organization with durable Oklahoma evidence.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

1907
Documented evidence
An OHS catalog photograph explicitly identifies the First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department in 1907.
Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1907 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For First Regiment Band of the Ardmore Fire Department: 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 36; catalog subgroup 413, item 413). No live item URL was available for this packet.

5143 sourceOklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 36; catalog subgroup 413, item 413

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