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[Photograph 2012.201.B0101.0404]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fiddlin' Jim Boyer is one of seven professional musicians paid by the Oklahoma Opry Association to perform and accompany other musicians at the Saturday night show."

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Source context

Visible Gateway description identifies Fiddlin' Jim Boyer / Oklahoma Opry Association and the role professional musician; fiddler. Creation information: Hoke, Doug; May 4, 1979. Source: Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 8, 1979. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.

Oklahoma connection

Gateway caption identifies Fiddlin' Jim Boyer as one of seven professional musicians paid to perform and accompany other musicians at an Oklahoma Opry Association show.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

professional musician; fiddler

Reading this source

This is a narrow musician-role capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Band-teacher evidence is supporting rather than automatic instrument-playing evidence. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc241280/