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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0872]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. The visible caption gives a history of New Orleans jazz, Preservation Hall, brass-band funerals, and named musicians including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, Kid Thomas Valentine, George Lewis, the Eureka Brass Band, and Oscar Chicken Henry.

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Source context

This is an Oklahoma newspaper/source record about New Orleans jazz rather than evidence that the named musicians originated in Oklahoma. The visible caption describes the tradition, older performers, Preservation Hall, and the Eureka Brass Band.

Oklahoma connection

The Oklahoma City newspaper, Oklahoma City place field, and Oklahoma Publishing Company collection establish an Oklahoma source/place tie; the depicted subject is New Orleans jazz history.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

New Orleans jazz history; bands; brass band; named musicians

Reading this source

The item supports a source and place connection to Oklahoma but not Oklahoma origin for the named New Orleans musicians; several names and words are misspelled in the visible caption; item-level republication rights remain unassessed. Local research copy GW-ITEM-0297-New-Orleans-Jazz-Notes-Linger-On-med_high.jpg; SHA-256 06821B2C9391E84446B5392216D091B10491E55EEA6A75CF9452D85050CC2E11.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1700822/