Evidence update · September 9, 2026
These September 9 additions strengthen ten existing profiles. Dated observations remain distinct from founding dates and uninterrupted continuity.
A report headed “Band for Hobart” describes an organizing committee, fourteen active members and six instruments still needed. The Commercial Club appropriated funds for those instruments. This is evidence of an organization in progress, not an exact founding date or proof that its first concert had occurred.
The university library’s 1928 Kendallabrum summary lists University of Tulsa Band among its organizations. Band is also listed in the 1936 summary, and University Band appears in 1939. The 1938 student index contains further member-level references. The 1939 mention of a massed concert with 36 bands remains a separate event question; it is not a verified list of 36 individual appearances.
The 1930 Scarab identifies Howard Moore Jr. as associate band director and contains a member biography crediting Band ’26–’29. The 1931 volume includes further member references; the 1933 volume mentions a 1930–31 Band Queen and band membership. These references support earlier activity without resolving every ensemble’s name or structure.
Printed pages 202–203 identify the orchestra separately from the Band and name Harold Witten with the band. The roster supplies qualifying instrumental evidence. Individual name spellings require comparison with the page images before republication.
The faculty roster on printed page 9 records a formal responsibility for band and orchestra. The evidence concerns the Alva institution and must not be merged with Northwestern Academy at Carrier.
The 1925 Oracle music-department account, on printed page 36, includes band among its activities. It supplements the existing 1904 Scrub Band photograph and later university history. The account does not establish that the 1904 and 1925 groups were continuously the same ensemble.
The college pamphlet A Day at Oklahoma A. and M. College describes the campus band playing while the cadet regiment drilled in 1913. This contemporary account corroborates early band activity and its cadet setting. It does not establish a separate military-band organization.
Contemporary Guthrie reports describe afternoon and evening concerts by the Chilocco Indian Band at the opera house on Sunday, May 25, 1902. They establish actual concerts, earlier than the dated photographs already in this profile. The reports identify a 35-piece band and musical soloists.
The Museum of Tulsa History catalog identifies an Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation Employees Band photograph, dated about 1928, at the south entrance of Central High School. It adds a source and the Corporation wording to the existing employee-band record; the wording alone does not identify a second ensemble.
A Metropolitan Library System photograph shows uniformed India Temple Band members with instruments outside the Baptist White Temple in Oklahoma City. The archive tags the image to the 1910s. That catalog dating is retained separately from the circa-1926–1928 photograph already in this record.
Explore seven reviewed visiting-band entries, with announcements and reported performances clearly distinguished. Visiting events are counted separately from resident-band profiles.
The archive retains 217 public profiles. Records requiring identity or evidence checks remain outside the public profile count. Read the collection’s status.