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Waurika Concert Band

WaurikaActive by 1909; exact photograph date not statedConcert band
Documented history with gaps
Master record057

Image status

Photograph withheld

C: Rights confirmation required — not cleared for publication.

How image decisions work

Documented overview

An OHS catalog photograph identifies the Waurika Concert Band posed in front of the R. L. Newton Company.

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

History

Identity and chronology

An OHS catalog photograph identifies the Waurika Concert Band posed in front of the R. L. Newton Company.

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

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

An OHS catalog photograph identifies the Waurika Concert Band posed in front of the R. L. Newton Company. The image is evidence of the depicted occasion or group, not proof of a founding date or continuous operation.

Why this band matters

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

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    An OHS catalog photograph identifies the Waurika Concert Band posed in front of the R. L. Newton Company.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Waurika Concert Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by 1909; exact photograph date not stated as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Waurika Concert 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 in the saved source corpus (Oklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 51; catalog 23388.42, item 2). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. 5143 sourceOklahoma Historical Society - Bands.pdf, PDF page 51; catalog 23388.42, item 2

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