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Jimmie Baker and His Collegians

Candidate group · high confidence

What the evidence supports

OHS catalogs document Mayo Hotel, Tulsa, circa 1940 (Ed Gowans, pianist/arranger), and an Oklahoma A&M Christmas dance circa 1941.

Approximate photo dates; founding, home base and full roster unresolved.

Confidence detail: high. Evidence notes are not a count of distinct ensembles.

OHS photograph catalog, Jimmie Baker and his Collegians, accession 20950.26, circa 1940

OHS photograph catalog, accession 20950.19, circa 1941