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Shawnee Band

ShawneeDocumented October 1899Civic band
Documented history with gaps
Master record152
Newspaper clipping from The Guthrie Daily Leader, October 30, 1899, page 1, documenting Oklahoma City Band; Shawnee Band; Oklahoma U.C.T. Band; Vaman's Band of Winfield.

Qualified contemporary evidence

No Band Contest

Rain canceled the Guthrie contest. The $250 purse was divided between the Shawnee and Oklahoma U.C.T. bands, the only official entrants. The Oklahoma City Band received praise but no award; the Winfield band was a visitor.

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

The Guthrie Daily Leader, October 30, 1899, 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

A Guthrie contest report identifies the Shawnee Band as one of two official entrants and says it shared the rain-shortened contest purse with the Oklahoma U.C.T. Band.

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

History

Identity and chronology

A Guthrie contest report identifies the Shawnee Band as one of two official entrants and says it shared the rain-shortened contest purse with the Oklahoma U.C.T. Band.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Shawnee Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Shawnee. 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 contest report identifies the Shawnee Band as one of two official entrants and says it shared the rain-shortened contest purse with the Oklahoma U.C.T. Band.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    A Guthrie contest report identifies the Shawnee Band as one of two official entrants and says it shared the rain-shortened contest purse with the Oklahoma U.C.T. Band.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

Determine the formal name and whether this was connected to any later Shawnee municipal or director-named band. Until that issue is resolved, the packet uses the narrowest chronology and identity stated in the evidence.

What remains unknown

Determine the formal name and whether this was connected to any later Shawnee municipal or director-named band.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled in the saved source corpus (The Guthrie Daily Leader, 1899-10-30 p.1). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. The Guthrie Daily Leader, 1899-10-30 p.1

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