Tonkawa Public Library (Okla.)

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection

Collection

Identifier: WHC-M-264

Scope and Contents

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Transcripts of interviews with pioneers who took part in the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma, with accompanying township maps showing the homesteads of settlers. The collection also includes historical and cultural information about the Indian tribes, including the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw) and Ponca, that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip. The final part of the collection consists of correspondence and field notebooks written by Orville Stanley Smith and Theodore H. Barrett during an 1871 survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation in Dakota Territory. Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1832-1958

Found in: Western History Collections / Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection

Tonkawa Public Library Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: WHC-P-1162

Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1893-1918

Found in: Western History Collections / Tonkawa Public Library Photograph Collection

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Tonkawa Public Library (Okla.)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection

Tonkawa Public Library Photograph Collection

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