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Stillwater Band

Also documented as: Stillwater Cornet Band

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Documented history with gaps
Master record110
Newspaper clipping from The Oklahoma A and M College Mirror, February 15, 1896, page 7, documenting Stillwater Cornet Band.

Operational evidence

Stillwater Cornet Band

The Stillwater Cornet Band is named in actual activity.

The Oklahoma A and M College Mirror, February 15, 1896, p. 7. 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

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Stillwater Band in Stillwater and gives the evidence date as 1900s.; A contemporary report supplies the Cornet Band form; no continuity with the modern Stillwater Community Band is asserted.

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

History

Identity and chronology

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Stillwater Band in Stillwater and gives the evidence date as 1900s.; A contemporary report supplies the Cornet Band form; no continuity with the modern Stillwater Community Band is asserted.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

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

The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Stillwater Band in Stillwater and gives the evidence date as 1900s.; A contemporary report supplies the Cornet Band form; no continuity with the modern Stillwater Community Band is asserted.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Stillwater Band in Stillwater and gives the evidence date as 1900s.; A contemporary report supplies the Cornet Band form; no continuity with the modern Stillwater Community Band is asserted.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Stillwater Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1900s as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Stillwater Band: confirm founding and closing dates, directors, membership, sponsorship, performances, and any successor organization from primary sources.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled against W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in Oklahoma (book addendum, pp. 56–58; book illustration, p. 19), and the user-supplied newspaper corpus (NEWS-131).

  1. W. Scott Barger, We Want a Band!: A History of Community Bands in OklahomaBook addendum, pp. 56–58; book illustration, p. 19; user-supplied newspaper corpus: NEWS-131

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