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Second Oklahoma Infantry Band

Oklahoma1917–1918 eraNational Guard infantry band
Documented history with gaps
Master record266
Newspaper clipping from The Daily Oklahoman, September 17, 1918, page 5, documenting Second Oklahoma Infantry Band.

Organization evidence

Second Oklahoma Infantry Band

The Second Oklahoma Infantry Band was being organized with R. F. Flynn and a stated quota.

This item documents the organizing effort; NEWS-095 and NEWS-096 document the band in later activity.

The Daily Oklahoman, September 17, 1918, p. 5. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-094 · High confidence · 2688 × 2029 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

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-054, TRIAGE-055, TRIAGE-056.

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-054, TRIAGE-055, TRIAGE-056.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Second Oklahoma Infantry Band 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.

Military personnel.

Activity

Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-054, TRIAGE-055, TRIAGE-056.

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-054, TRIAGE-055, TRIAGE-056.

    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 Daily Oklahoman, February 6, 1920, page 1, documenting University of Oklahoma Band; Second Oklahoma Infantry Band; Fort Sill band.

Operational evidence

University of Oklahoma Band; Second Oklahoma Infantry Band; Fort Sill band

University of Oklahoma, Second Regiment, and Fort Sill bands are named in one report.

The Daily Oklahoman, February 6, 1920, p. 1. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-095 · High confidence · 694 × 3481 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
Newspaper clipping from The Daily Oklahoman, October 10, 1920, page 1, documenting Second Oklahoma Infantry Band.

Operational evidence

Second Oklahoma Infantry Band

The Second Oklahoma Infantry Band participated in a parade.

The Daily Oklahoman, October 10, 1920, p. 1. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

NEWS-096 · High confidence · 2166 × 3486 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 Second Oklahoma Infantry Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1917–1918 era as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Second Oklahoma Infantry 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-054, TRIAGE-055, TRIAGE-056). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-054, TRIAGE-055, TRIAGE-056

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