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Tulsa American Legion Band

TulsaActive by 1940American Legion/veterans band
Documented history with gaps
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Documented overview

A contemporary Daily Oklahoman notice advertised a concert by the Tulsa American Legion Band; later obituaries identify leadership, but it is not treated as an earlier Tulsa Community Band name.

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

History

Identity and chronology

A contemporary Daily Oklahoman notice advertised a concert by the Tulsa American Legion Band; later obituaries identify leadership, but it is not treated as an earlier Tulsa Community Band name.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

Tulsa American Legion 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.

Adult veterans/community ensemble.

Activity

A contemporary Daily Oklahoman notice advertised a concert by the Tulsa American Legion Band; later obituaries identify leadership, but it is not treated as an earlier Tulsa Community Band name.

Why this band matters

Distinct Tulsa veterans-band organization documented by contemporary primary evidence.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    A contemporary Daily Oklahoman notice advertised a concert by the Tulsa American Legion Band; later obituaries identify leadership, but it is not treated as an earlier Tulsa Community Band name.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Tulsa American Legion Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by 1940 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Tulsa American Legion 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 (Daily Oklahoman, 1940-08-30, p. 9; Tulsa newspaper report). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. Daily Oklahoman, 1940-08-30, p. 9; Tulsa newspaper report

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