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The documented story
The repository record states that the Byars Concert Band was organized February 22, 1910, and names many members in the photograph. The image is evidence of the depicted occasion or group, not proof of a founding date or continuous operation.
Community and organization
Byars Concert Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Byars. Municipal ownership, public funding, and organizational continuity are not inferred from a town name alone.
Reading the evidence
No material contradiction is resolved by assumption. For Byars Concert Band, Organized February 22, 1910 is treated as the documented evidence span, not automatically as a founding date, closing date, or proof of continuous operation.
Questions for further research
For Byars Concert Band: active span, membership, directors, and later status remain to be researched.
People named in related records
Names are retained as recorded in their source contexts.
- E. R. Harrison — Pictured band member (1910)
- Otto Foster — Pictured band member (1910)
- Luther Miller — Pictured band member (1910)
- Fred Hornbeak — Pictured band member (1910)
- Forrest Clair — Pictured band member (1910)
- Mr. Findley — Pictured band member (1910)
- Bill Vauoy[?] — Pictured band member (1910)
- Zene Foster — Pictured band member (1910)
- Walcot Zucker — Pictured band member (1910)
- Johnny Harris — Pictured band member (1910)
- Roger Harris — Pictured band member (1910)
- Arthur Edgmon — Pictured band member (1910)
- Ray Grider — Pictured band member (1910)
- Kelsey Warren — Pictured band member (1910)
- Howard Findley — Pictured band member (1910)
- Moody Bowman — Pictured band member (1910)
Dated evidence in this record
- 1910
The 1910 Byars Concert Band photograph metadata names E. R. Harrison, Otto Foster, Luther Miller, Fred Hornbeak, Forrest Clair, Mr. Findley, Bill Vauoy[?], Zene Foster, Walcot Zucker, Johnny Harris, Roger Harris, Arthur Edgmon, Ray Grider, Kelsey Warren, Howard Findley, and Moody Bowman.
- 1910
A local newspaper retrospective presents two 1910 photographs captioned Byars Brass Band and describes a lakeside-pavilion performance.