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Griffin Rock Island Band

HennesseyEarly twentieth centuryRailroad/workplace band
Documented history with gaps
Master record286
Newspaper clipping from The Oklahoma State Capital, October 9, 1901, page 5, documenting Oklahoma Cavalry Band; Griffin Rock Island Band of Hennessey.

Operational evidence

Oklahoma Cavalry Band; Griffin Rock Island Band of Hennessey

The Oklahoma Cavalry Band and Griffin Rock Island Band of Hennessey are named separately.

The Oklahoma State Capital, October 9, 1901, p. 5. 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-094.

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-094.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Griffin Rock Island Band is classified by its documented railroad/workplace band identity. The affiliation is reported as an organizational context, not as proof of legal ownership, continuous funding, or a successor relationship.

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-094.

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-094.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Griffin Rock Island Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Early twentieth century as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Griffin Rock Island 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-094). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-094

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