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Oklahoma City Camp Modern Woodmen of America Band

Harry E. Brill directed the recently organized band at the Modern Woodmen national encampment in Buffalo. It served as escort to Head Consul A. R. Talbot, won first prize for parade excellence, and placed second in the band contest by one-half of one percent.

Modern Woodmen Oklahoma battalion and band at Buffalo encampment
Modern Woodmen Oklahoma battalion and band at Buffalo encampment · Original source
Woodmen band concert at Belle Isle Park
Woodmen band concert at Belle Isle Park · Original source

People and leadership

Brill directed the recently organized band at the Modern Woodmen national encampment in Buffalo.

Community and organization

Oklahoma City Camp Modern Woodmen of America Band is classified by its documented fraternal and contest band identity. The affiliation is reported as an organizational context, not as proof of legal ownership, continuous funding, or a successor relationship.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for Oklahoma City Camp Modern Woodmen of America Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Organized in 1911; documented June-July 1911 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For Oklahoma City Camp Modern Woodmen of America Band: confirm full active span, directors, membership, sponsorship, performances, and successor organizations.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1911-06-29

    An Oklahoma battalion and band represented Oklahoma at the Modern Woodmen of America national encampment in Buffalo in June 1911 and received an escort honor connected with the national order.

  2. 1915-06-26

    A twenty-player Woodmen of the World band was advertised for a concert at Belle Isle Park in Oklahoma City in June 1915; exact identity with the canonical Modern Woodmen of America camp band is qualified.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2365641/m1/6/
  2. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc170559/m1/5/