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5th Cavalry Band at Fort Reno
Contemporary Oklahoma newspaper evidence identifies the named ensemble in actual performance, organization, personnel, finance, or travel activity; see TRIAGE-099.
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Military, workplace, fraternal, and institutional ensembles.
The ensemble collection includes groups associated with military service, employers, organizations, and institutions. The source accounts describe different forms of sponsorship and participation.
An institutional connection is not the same as open public membership. Historical descriptions remain tied to their dates and sources rather than becoming claims about present-day eligibility.
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Akdar Temple Band
Tulsa archival photographs identify the Akdar Band in 1915 and the Akdar Temple Band at the 1920 Imperial Council session in Portland.; A contemporary item confirms the Shrine-band form of the name.
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Ardmore Chamber of Commerce Band
Photographs document the chamber band in 1916 and 1917; the later item names George D. Barnard as director.
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First Field Artillery Band
A reproduced Museum of the Great Plains photograph identifies the First Field Artillery Band at Fort Sill in 1935.
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First Oklahoma Infantry Band
Sergeant Francis Mockel directed the band after its development at Fort Sill, where it performed around Lawton and Medicine Park before moving to Camp Bowie in August 1917. A March 1918 report records its dissolution and the trans
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First Regiment Band, Oklahoma National Guard
A 1897 anniversary history says the band began with seventeen members sworn in by Governor Renfrow on June 12, 1894, traces its early leadership, and reports thirty-four members. Other reports document major parades and a 1902 acc
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Frisco R.R. Band
Two contemporary reports identify the Oklahoma inaugural ensemble as a thirty to thirty-four member territorial band assembled at Mulhall and known in Washington as the Frisco R.R. Band. It participated in the March 4 presidential
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Marietta Chamber of Commerce Band
The reviewed Oklahoma band history identifies Marietta Chamber of Commerce Band in Marietta and gives the evidence date as Documented October 1922.
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Muskogee Shrine Band
Museum research credits Tony Goetz with organizing and directing a Shrine band that played national conventions and regular civic events.
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Future interviews will connect these sources with the recollections of people who made music.
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