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U.S.S. Oklahoma Band

U.S.S. Oklahoma; Oklahoma namesake and naval history1924-1925United States Navy ship band
Documented history with gaps
Master record059

Image status

Photograph withheld

C: Rights confirmation required — not cleared for publication.

How image decisions work

Documented overview

An Oklahoma Historical Society catalog photograph from the John J. Clunie Collection identifies the U.S.S. Oklahoma Band in the foreground and dates the scene to 1924–1925.

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

History

Identity and chronology

An Oklahoma Historical Society catalog photograph from the John J. Clunie Collection identifies the U.S.S. Oklahoma Band in the foreground and dates the scene to 1924–1925.

Leadership

No bandmaster or individual musician has been identified in the reviewed catalog record.

Sponsorship and participation

The ensemble was a U.S. Navy ship’s band attached to the battleship Oklahoma. Its inclusion is based on the ship’s Oklahoma namesake and the state’s naval memory, not on a claim that the band was based in Oklahoma.

Adult or plausibly adult; exact participation model may remain unverified.

Activity

The photograph securely documents the band in the mid-1920s. The official Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships supplies ship context but not a band chronology.

Why this band matters

Named military unit, lineage, or veterans organization with durable Oklahoma evidence.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    An Oklahoma Historical Society catalog photograph from the John J. Clunie Collection identifies the U.S.S. Oklahoma Band in the foreground and dates the scene to 1924–1925.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The site should keep the naval location distinction explicit and should not infer specific Pacific-cruise performances from the photograph alone.

What remains unknown

Personnel, exact image location, and shipboard performance dates remain unknown.

Evidence

Sources

The captured OHS catalog record and official Naval History and Heritage Command ship history were reconciled on 2026-09-03.

  1. 5143 sourceOklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 47; catalog subgroup 18636.87, item 70
  2. History source

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