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[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0103]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Most people played around during the Great Raft Race held Monday in Tulsa, but few did it as melodiously as the members of Deano's Wandering Polka Band and Wind Ensemble, left, who showed a lot of brass on the meandering Arkansas River as they cruised along on their floating bandstand."

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Source context

Visible Gateway item-page data captured for this research row. Source: "Rafts Ahoy !", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 5, 1978. Collection: This photograph is part of the following collection of related materials. | Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection The Oklahoma Publishing Company, the parent company of many prominent Oklahoma newspapers, amassed a significant collection of photographs that span more than a century. The wide variety of photographs accompanied stories in the newspapers. About | Browse this Collection. Place/context: This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection and was provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society to The Gateway to Oklahoma History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.. Creation data: Cook, J. Don 1978.. Physical description: 1 photograph. Provided by: Oklahoma Historical Society. Identifier: ark:/67531/metadc372288. Subjects: Arkansas River at Tulsa; Daily Oklahoman photographs; Great Raft Race. Digital files: 1 image file available in multiple sizes. No outside biography or identity merge is asserted.

Oklahoma connection

The visible record was returned by the exact polka-plus-Oklahoma search. The caption establishes polka music, a polka band, an Oklahoma dance/festival, or Oklahoma newspaper/event context where stated; this does not establish an origin claim for every person or group.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

polka band/wind ensemble

Reading this source

Only the visible Gateway metadata, caption, and captured image are represented here; individual and group identity, exact Oklahoma relationship, duplicates, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc372288/