Oklahoma Musicians

Archive source

[Photograph 2012.201.B1308.0701]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Only close friends know that Sam Thompson, 17, Central's all-state basketball center commands a piano keyboard with the same authoity as the courts, on which he scored 542 points in 27 games this season to help the Cardinals to the state semifinals."

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Source context

Visible Gateway description identifies Sam Thompson / piano keyboard and the role piano keyboard player. Creation information: ; March 26, 1951. Source: Oklahoma Times, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 28, 1951. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.

Oklahoma connection

Direct named piano-keyboard playing evidence for a Central High School student in Oklahoma.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

piano keyboard player

Reading this source

This is a broad-noun card-screen capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, cultural context, and republication rights require separate review. Supporting rows do not independently establish active playing in the pictured scene. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc631628/