School & YouthRecord 162
Lawton High School All Girls Band
The Museum of the Great Plains catalog identifies an all-girls band posed at Lawton High School in 1939, photographed by Call's Studio.
36 records in the full inventory
School and Youth Bands
Historically significant secondary-school, boarding-school, and youth ensembles.
Historical frame
What this collection holds
School bands document education and community life, including histories shaped by segregation and coercive institutions.
Records enter this collection through evidence of an organized Oklahoma ensemble, not merely because a photograph or name resembles another band.
Published records
36 available records
School & YouthRecord 164
Snyder High School Band
The Museum of the Great Plains catalog identifies Snyder High School band members in a March 1966 Lawton Constitution photograph.
School & YouthRecord 165
Eufaula High School Band
Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee photographed the Eufaula High School Band parading on Eufaula’s main street in February 1940. The Library of Congress record number is LC-USF33-012585-M1, with digital reproduction LC-DIG-fsa-8a27944.
School & YouthRecord 191
Northwestern Academy Band
An archival photograph explicitly identifies the Northwestern Academy Band in Oklahoma Territory. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph of the Northwestern Academy Band, O.T.
School & YouthRecord 192
Chilocco Indian Agricultural School Bands
Archival records document several Chilocco school ensembles and activities in 1910, 1912, 1966, and 1973. These records must be read within the federal boarding-school and forced-assimilation system rather than as an uncomplicated story of school spirit.
School & YouthRecord 193
Broken Arrow High School Bands
Broken Arrow Bands dates the program to 1929 and publishes a director succession beginning with F. A. Duncan. The program now spans concert, marching, jazz, percussion, guard, chamber, orchestral-wind, and pep-band activities across a vertically aligned school system.
School & YouthRecord 194
Douglass High School Band
Zelia N. Breaux organized a twenty-six-member band at Douglass High School in Oklahoma City in 1923. Under her leadership it performed at national expositions and on radio while helping reshape Black school-band life in Oklahoma.
School & YouthRecord 195
Drumright High School Band
Local museum research documents a female drum major, 1937 state victory and Chicago trip, a 30-city tour, and a 1946 Mexico tour.
School & YouthRecord 196
Lawton High School Band Program
The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph.
School & YouthRecord 197
Dunbar High School Band
Archival photographs document both concert/group and marching activity at Shawnee’s segregated Dunbar High School. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph of members of the Dunbar High School Marching Band, Shawnee, OK.
School & YouthRecord 198
Union High School Bands
Union’s official history documents the Renegade Regiment, director eras, concert, jazz, marching, guard, percussion, and national activity.
School & YouthRecord 199
Owasso High School Bands
Owasso documents extensive concert success, Midwest Clinic appearances, and repeated Rose Parade participation.
School & YouthRecord 200
Bixby High School Bands
Bixby publishes a chronology spanning concert, marching, jazz, middle-school, guard, percussion, and international activity.
School & YouthRecord 201
Jenks High School Bands
Jenks documents nationally recognized marching and concert activity, including two Tournament of Roses Parade appearances.
School & YouthRecord 202
Mustang High School Bands
The current program documents a large multi-ensemble system; separate evidence establishes that band activity predates the site’s 1987 organizational date.
School & YouthRecord 203
Edmond North High School Bands
Edmond North dates its program to the school’s 1994 establishment and documents concert, marching, jazz, percussion, guard, and feeder-school structure.
School & YouthRecord 204
Edmond Santa Fe High School Bands
The program documents extensive Sweepstakes, honor-band, jazz, and international parade activity.
School & YouthRecord 205
Sallisaw High School Bands
Sallisaw documents marching, concert, jazz, and middle-to-high-school participation.
School & YouthRecord 206
McAlester High School Bands
McAlester documents sixth- through eighth-grade, wind, symphonic, marching, and auxiliary ensembles.
School & YouthRecord 207
Oklahoma Christian School Bands
School and association sources document state concert, jazz, and middle-school festival participation.
School & YouthRecord 208
Enid High School Band
An archival photograph identifies the Enid High School Band in a parade.
School & YouthRecord 209
Midwest City High School Band
An archival record preserves a 1976 Midwest City High School concert-band performance or recording.
School & YouthRecord 210
Southeast High School Band
An archival photograph identifies Southeast High School band officers in 1976–1977. The live archival metadata further states: Leaders of the Southeast High School (Spartan Band) this year include :. Seated from left : Janet Simon, Steve Harshaw and Kim Stevenson. Standing from left : Katy Ferguson, Allen Lay, Debbie McDown and Sherri Babst.
School & YouthRecord 211
Northwest Classen High School Band
An archival image documents Northwest Classen band-related twirlers. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph of; Marching with the Northwest Classen High School Band as twirlers. From left, Carla Wittroch, Becky Simon and Deaunn McDow and top row from left, Gena Brown, Sandy Bates and Sharyl Leverich.
School & YouthRecord 212
John Marshall High School Band
An archival photograph documents John Marshall band leadership. The live archival metadata further states: John Marshall High School Band.
School & YouthRecord 213
Oklahoma Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps
An archival record identifies a stable named cadet drum-and-bugle organization in 1963. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Cadets founder Edward e. Clark pins attendance awards on two drum and bugle corps members, John Ream, Crooked Oak High School, and Lee Hill, Southeast High."
School & YouthRecord 214
Mangum Girls Drum and Bugle Corps
An archival photograph clearly names the Mangum Girls Drum and Bugle Corps. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph depicting Mangum Girls Drum and Bugle Corps in full dress uniforms. Four majorettes and thirty-five additional band members. Fourteen drums on display before group.
School & YouthRecord 215
Tulsa Boy Scout Band
Archival evidence identifies a Tulsa Boy Scout/Troop 10 band as a stable sponsored youth ensemble.
School & YouthRecord 216
Oklahoma All-State Band
Research traces Oklahoma’s first All-State Band to 1929 and documents a continuing statewide honor-band system.
School & YouthRecord 217
Stillwater Colored Band
Local historical research identifies a school-connected Black band under educator Joseph Elsberry that also performed in civic parades.
School & YouthRecord 218
Edmond Memorial Historical Brass Band
A public event record documents an Edmond Memorial school ensemble performing historical brass-band repertoire.
School & YouthRecord 219
Nopper's Juvenile Band
Contemporary citations document Walter J. Nopper’s juvenile and 58-piece boy-and-girl Scout band.
School & YouthRecord 220
Walter 'Little Ten' Boys Band
A contemporary newspaper reports the named Walter “Little Ten” boys band and its performance activity.
School & YouthRecord 221
Clinton Boys Band
A contemporary newspaper separately identifies the Clinton Boys Band.
School & YouthRecord 222
Miami Agency Children's Band
Two National Archives records from Bureau of Indian Affairs holdings document a children’s band associated with the Miami Agency in northeastern Oklahoma. One is titled “[Children’s Band]”; the other documents a children’s marching band in 1905.
School & YouthRecord 223
U.S. Indian Industrial School Band at Wyandotte
A National Archives image record for the U.S. Indian Industrial School at Wyandotte depicts its band and is marked access and use unrestricted.