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Medford Band

MedfordActive by January 1906Town or civic band
Documented history with gaps
Master record155
Newspaper clipping from The Oklahoman, January 16, 1906, page 2, documenting Norman Band; Edmond Band; Oklahoma City Band; University of Oklahoma Band; Crescent Band; Enid Band; Perkins Band; Mulhall Band; Medford Band; Tonkawa Preparatory School Band; Rough Riders brass band.

Qualified contemporary evidence

Inaugural-day report

The report describes town delegations and their bands at Guthrie, distinguishes the University of Oklahoma and Tonkawa school bands, and records a concert by the Oklahoma City Band.

The source securely documents the named reference; broader organizational continuity remains unresolved.

The Oklahoman, January 16, 1906, p. 2. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-033 · Medium confidence · 1448 × 3787 JPEG

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

A Guthrie inaugural-day report records a Medford delegation arriving with a band.

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

History

Identity and chronology

A Guthrie inaugural-day report records a Medford delegation arriving with a band.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Medford Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Medford. 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

A Guthrie inaugural-day report records a Medford delegation arriving with a band.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    A Guthrie inaugural-day report records a Medford delegation arriving with a band.

    Source 1

Primary-source images

Newspaper evidence

These article images document the named band or event. They are evidence pages, not standalone photographs of the ensemble.

Newspaper clipping from The Weekly Times Journal, January 19, 1906, page 6, documenting Norman Band; Edmond Band; Oklahoma City Band; University of Oklahoma Band; Crescent Band; Enid Band; Perkins Band; Mulhall Band; Medford Band; Tonkawa Preparatory School Band; Rough Riders brass band.

Corroborating reprint

Inaugural-day report, reprint

A reprint of the Guthrie inaugural-day report repeats the town, university, preparatory-school, and Rough Riders band references.

This reprints the inaugural-day report represented by NEWS-033 and is not counted as an independent event.

The Weekly Times Journal, January 19, 1906, p. 6. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-039 · High confidence · 2435 × 3724 JPEG

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.

Open full-resolution article imageGateway citation guidance

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Medford Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by January 1906 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Medford Band: confirm full active span, directors, membership, sponsorship, performances, and successor organizations.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled in the saved source corpus (The Oklahoman, 1906-01-16 p.2; The Weekly Times-Journal, 1906-01-19 p.6). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. The Oklahoman, 1906-01-16 p.2; The Weekly Times-Journal, 1906-01-19 p.6

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