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People and leadership
Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity
Community and organization
Cleveland Cornet Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Cleveland. Municipal ownership, public funding, and organizational continuity are not inferred from a town name alone.
Reading the evidence
The evidence for Cleveland Cornet Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Early twentieth century as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.
Questions for further research
For Cleveland Cornet Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1896-05-22
The Cleveland Cornet Band provided music for the May 1896 Decoration Day observance, procession, public speaking, and related program.
- 1896-05-22
Following is the programme of the day's exercises: March to the grounds 10 o'clock a.m. Music by the Cleveland Cornet Band ... Music by the Cleveland Cornet Band. ... Afternoon, Music by the band ... followed by choice selections by the band.