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Polly's Musical Maids

MuskogeeOrganized January 12, 1915Women's commercial/novelty band
Documented history with gaps
Master record290
Newspaper clipping from The Tulsa Tribune, August 19, 1917, page 1, documenting Polly's Musical Maids.

Operational evidence

Polly's Musical Maids

Polly's Musical Maids of Muskogee is described with organization date and leadership.

The Tulsa Tribune, August 19, 1917, p. 1. 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-113.

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-113.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Polly's Musical Maids is classified as a jazz, dance, territory, commercial, broadcast, or touring ensemble. A branded performing identity is not treated as a municipal or nonprofit charter unless a source says so.

Women; adult/minor mix not established.

Activity

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-113.

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-113.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Polly's Musical Maids does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Organized January 12, 1915 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Polly's Musical Maids: 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-113). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-113

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