Arthur James Williams Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: WHC-P-1679

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates

Creation: 1910-1940

Creator

Williams, Arthur James, 1877-1954 (Person)

Restrictions on Access

On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.

Open for public research.

Extent

954 items (954 items)

Language of Materials

{:aar=>"Afar", :abk=>"Abkhazian", :ace=>"Achinese", :ach=>"Acoli", :ada=>"Adangme", :ady=>"Adyghe; Adygei", :afa=>"Afro-Asiatic languages", :afh=>"Afrihili", :afr=>"Afrikaans", :ain=>"Ainu", :aka=>"Akan", :akk=>"Akkadian", :alb=>"Albanian", :ale=>"Aleut", :alg=>"Algonquian languages", :alt=>"Southern Altai", :amh=>"Amharic", :ang=>"English, Old (ca.450-1100)", :anp=>"Angika", :apa=>"Apache languages", :ara=>"Arabic", :arc=>"Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)", :arg=>"Aragonese", :arm=>"Armenian", :arn=>"Mapudungun; Mapuche", :arp=>"Arapaho", :art=>"Artificial languages", :arw=>"Arawak", :asm=>"Assamese", :ast=>"Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese", :ath=>"Athapascan languages", :aus=>"Australian languages", :ava=>"Avaric", :ave=>"Avestan", :awa=>"Awadhi", :aym=>"Aymara", :aze=>"Azerbaijani", :bad=>"Banda languages", :bai=>"Bamileke languages", :bak=>"Bashkir", :bal=>"Baluchi", :bam=>"Bambara", :ban=>"Balinese", :baq=>"Basque", :bas=>"Basa", :bat=>"Baltic languages", :bej=>"Beja; Bedawiyet", :bel=>"Belarusian", :bem=>"Bemba", :ben=>"Bengali", :ber=>"Berber languages", :bho=>"Bhojpuri", :bih=>"Bihari languages", :bik=>"Bikol", :bin=>"Bini; Edo", :bis=>"Bislama", :bla=>"Siksika", :bnt=>"Bantu (Other)", :bos=>"Bosnian", :bra=>"Braj", :bre=>"Breton", :btk=>"Batak languages", :bua=>"Buriat", :bug=>"Buginese", :bul=>"Bulgarian", :bur=>"Burmese", :byn=>"Blin; Bilin", :cad=>"Caddo", :cai=>"Central American Indian languages", :car=>"Galibi Carib", :cat=>"Catalan; Valencian", :cau=>"Caucasian languages", :ceb=>"Cebuano", :cel=>"Celtic languages", :cha=>"Chamorro", :chb=>"Chibcha", :che=>"Chechen", :chg=>"Chagatai", :chi=>"Chinese", :chk=>"Chuukese", :chm=>"Mari", :chn=>"Chinook jargon", :cho=>"Choctaw", :chp=>"Chipewyan; Dene Suline", :chr=>"Cherokee", :chu=>"Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic", :chv=>"Chuvash", :chy=>"Cheyenne", :cmc=>"Chamic languages", :cnr=>"Montenegrin", :cop=>"Coptic", :cor=>"Cornish", :cos=>"Corsican", :cpe=>"Creoles and pidgins, English-based", :cpf=>"Creoles and pidgins, French-based", :cpp=>"Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based", :cre=>"Cree", :crh=>"Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish", :crp=>"Creoles and pidgins", :csb=>"Kashubian", :cus=>"Cushitic languages", :cze=>"Czech", :dak=>"Dakota", :dan=>"Danish", :dar=>"Dargwa", :day=>"Land Dayak languages", :del=>"Delaware", :den=>"Slave (Athapascan)", :dgr=>"Dogrib", :din=>"Dinka", :div=>"Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian", :doi=>"Dogri", :dra=>"Dravidian languages", :dsb=>"Lower Sorbian", :dua=>"Duala", :dum=>"Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350)", :dut=>"Dutch; Flemish", :dyu=>"Dyula", :dzo=>"Dzongkha", :efi=>"Efik", :egy=>"Egyptian (Ancient)", :eka=>"Ekajuk", :elx=>"Elamite", :eng=>"English", :enm=>"English, Middle (1100-1500)", :epo=>"Esperanto", :est=>"Estonian", :ewe=>"Ewe", :ewo=>"Ewondo", :fan=>"Fang", :fao=>"Faroese", :fat=>"Fanti", :fij=>"Fijian", :fil=>"Filipino; Pilipino", :fin=>"Finnish", :fiu=>"Finno-Ugrian languages", :fon=>"Fon", :fre=>"French", :frm=>"French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)", :fro=>"French, Old (842-ca.1400)", :frr=>"Northern Frisian", :frs=>"Eastern Frisian", :fry=>"Western Frisian", :ful=>"Fulah", :fur=>"Friulian", :gaa=>"Ga", :gay=>"Gayo", :gba=>"Gbaya", :gem=>"Germanic languages", :geo=>"Georgian", :ger=>"German", :gez=>"Geez", :gil=>"Gilbertese", :gla=>"Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic", :gle=>"Irish", :glg=>"Galician", :glv=>"Manx", :gmh=>"German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)", :goh=>"German, Old High (ca.750-1050)", :gon=>"Gondi", :gor=>"Gorontalo", :got=>"Gothic", :grb=>"Grebo", :grc=>"Greek, Ancient (to 1453)", :gre=>"Greek, Modern (1453-)", :grn=>"Guarani", :gsw=>"Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian", :guj=>"Gujarati", :gwi=>"Gwich'in", :hai=>"Haida", :hat=>"Haitian; Haitian Creole", :hau=>"Hausa", :haw=>"Hawaiian", :heb=>"Hebrew", :her=>"Herero", :hil=>"Hiligaynon", :him=>"Himachali languages; Western Pahari languages", :hin=>"Hindi", :hit=>"Hittite", :hmn=>"Hmong; Mong", :hmo=>"Hiri Motu", :hrv=>"Croatian", :hsb=>"Upper Sorbian", :hun=>"Hungarian", :hup=>"Hupa", :iba=>"Iban", :ibo=>"Igbo", :ice=>"Icelandic", :ido=>"Ido", :iii=>"Sichuan Yi; Nuosu", :ijo=>"Ijo languages", :iku=>"Inuktitut", :ile=>"Interlingue; Occidental", :ilo=>"Iloko", :ina=>"Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)", :inc=>"Indic languages", :ind=>"Indonesian", :ine=>"Indo-European languages", :inh=>"Ingush", :ipk=>"Inupiaq", :ira=>"Iranian languages", :iro=>"Iroquoian languages", :ita=>"Italian", :jav=>"Javanese", :jbo=>"Lojban", :jpn=>"Japanese", :jpr=>"Judeo-Persian", :jrb=>"Judeo-Arabic", :kaa=>"Kara-Kalpak", :kab=>"Kabyle", :kac=>"Kachin; Jingpho", :kal=>"Kalaallisut; Greenlandic", :kam=>"Kamba", :kan=>"Kannada", :kar=>"Karen languages", :kas=>"Kashmiri", :kau=>"Kanuri", :kaw=>"Kawi", :kaz=>"Kazakh", :kbd=>"Kabardian", :kha=>"Khasi", :khi=>"Khoisan languages", :khm=>"Central Khmer", :kho=>"Khotanese; Sakan", :kik=>"Kikuyu; Gikuyu", :kin=>"Kinyarwanda", :kir=>"Kirghiz; Kyrgyz", :kmb=>"Kimbundu", :kok=>"Konkani", :kom=>"Komi", :kon=>"Kongo", :kor=>"Korean", :kos=>"Kosraean", :kpe=>"Kpelle", :krc=>"Karachay-Balkar", :krl=>"Karelian", :kro=>"Kru languages", :kru=>"Kurukh", :kua=>"Kuanyama; Kwanyama", :kum=>"Kumyk", :kur=>"Kurdish", :kut=>"Kutenai", :lad=>"Ladino", :lah=>"Lahnda", :lam=>"Lamba", :lao=>"Lao", :lat=>"Latin", :lav=>"Latvian", :lez=>"Lezghian", :lim=>"Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish", :lin=>"Lingala", :lit=>"Lithuanian", :lol=>"Mongo", :loz=>"Lozi", :ltz=>"Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch", :lua=>"Luba-Lulua", :lub=>"Luba-Katanga", :lug=>"Ganda", :lui=>"Luiseno", :lun=>"Lunda", :luo=>"Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)", :lus=>"Lushai", :mac=>"Macedonian", :mad=>"Madurese", :mag=>"Magahi", :mah=>"Marshallese", :mai=>"Maithili", :mak=>"Makasar", :mal=>"Malayalam", :man=>"Mandingo", :mao=>"Maori", :map=>"Austronesian languages", :mar=>"Marathi", :mas=>"Masai", :may=>"Malay", :mdf=>"Moksha", :mdr=>"Mandar", :men=>"Mende", :mga=>"Irish, Middle (900-1200)", :mic=>"Mi'kmaq; Micmac", :min=>"Minangkabau", :mis=>"Uncoded languages", :mkh=>"Mon-Khmer languages", :mlg=>"Malagasy", :mlt=>"Maltese", :mnc=>"Manchu", :mni=>"Manipuri", :mno=>"Manobo languages", :moh=>"Mohawk", :mon=>"Mongolian", :mos=>"Mossi", :mul=>"Multiple languages", :mun=>"Munda languages", :mus=>"Creek", :mwl=>"Mirandese", :mwr=>"Marwari", :myn=>"Mayan languages", :myv=>"Erzya", :nah=>"Nahuatl languages", :nai=>"North American Indian languages", :nap=>"Neapolitan", :nau=>"Nauru", :nav=>"Navajo; Navaho", :nbl=>"Ndebele, South; South Ndebele", :nde=>"Ndebele, North; North Ndebele", :ndo=>"Ndonga", :nds=>"Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low", :nep=>"Nepali", :new=>"Nepal Bhasa; Newari", :nia=>"Nias", :nic=>"Niger-Kordofanian languages", :niu=>"Niuean", :nno=>"Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian", :nob=>"Norwegian Bokmål; Bokmål, Norwegian", :nog=>"Nogai", :non=>"Norse, Old", :nor=>"Norwegian", :nqo=>"N'Ko", :nso=>"Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho", :nub=>"Nubian languages", :nwc=>"Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa", :nya=>"Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja", :nym=>"Nyamwezi", :nyn=>"Nyankole", :nyo=>"Nyoro", :nzi=>"Nzima", :oci=>"Occitan (post 1500); Provençal", :oji=>"Ojibwa", :ori=>"Oriya", :orm=>"Oromo", :osa=>"Osage", :oss=>"Ossetian; Ossetic", :ota=>"Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)", :oto=>"Otomian languages", :paa=>"Papuan languages", :pag=>"Pangasinan", :pal=>"Pahlavi", :pam=>"Pampanga; Kapampangan", :pan=>"Panjabi; Punjabi", :pap=>"Papiamento", :pau=>"Palauan", :peo=>"Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.)", :per=>"Persian", :phi=>"Philippine languages", :phn=>"Phoenician", :pli=>"Pali", :pol=>"Polish", :pon=>"Pohnpeian", :por=>"Portuguese", :pra=>"Prakrit languages", :pro=>"Provençal, Old (to 1500)", :pus=>"Pushto; Pashto", :que=>"Quechua", :raj=>"Rajasthani", :rap=>"Rapanui", :rar=>"Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori", :roa=>"Romance languages", :roh=>"Romansh", :rom=>"Romany", :rum=>"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan", :run=>"Rundi", :rup=>"Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian", :rus=>"Russian", :sad=>"Sandawe", :sag=>"Sango", :sah=>"Yakut", :sai=>"South American Indian (Other)", :sal=>"Salishan languages", :sam=>"Samaritan Aramaic", :san=>"Sanskrit", :sas=>"Sasak", :sat=>"Santali", :scn=>"Sicilian", :sco=>"Scots", :sel=>"Selkup", :sem=>"Semitic languages", :sga=>"Irish, Old (to 900)", :sgn=>"Sign Languages", :shn=>"Shan", :sid=>"Sidamo", :sin=>"Sinhala; Sinhalese", :sio=>"Siouan languages", :sit=>"Sino-Tibetan languages", :sla=>"Slavic languages", :slo=>"Slovak", :slv=>"Slovenian", :sma=>"Southern Sami", :sme=>"Northern Sami", :smi=>"Sami languages", :smj=>"Lule Sami", :smn=>"Inari Sami", :smo=>"Samoan", :sms=>"Skolt Sami", :sna=>"Shona", :snd=>"Sindhi", :snk=>"Soninke", :sog=>"Sogdian", :som=>"Somali", :son=>"Songhai languages", :sot=>"Sotho, Southern", :spa=>"Spanish; Castilian", :srd=>"Sardinian", :srn=>"Sranan Tongo", :srp=>"Serbian", :srr=>"Serer", :ssa=>"Nilo-Saharan languages", :ssw=>"Swati", :suk=>"Sukuma", :sun=>"Sundanese", :sus=>"Susu", :sux=>"Sumerian", :swa=>"Swahili", :swe=>"Swedish", :syc=>"Classical Syriac", :syr=>"Syriac", :tah=>"Tahitian", :tai=>"Tai languages", :tam=>"Tamil", :tat=>"Tatar", :tel=>"Telugu", :tem=>"Timne", :ter=>"Tereno", :tet=>"Tetum", :tgk=>"Tajik", :tgl=>"Tagalog", :tha=>"Thai", :tib=>"Tibetan", :tig=>"Tigre", :tir=>"Tigrinya", :tiv=>"Tiv", :tkl=>"Tokelau", :tlh=>"Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol", :tli=>"Tlingit", :tmh=>"Tamashek", :tog=>"Tonga (Nyasa)", :ton=>"Tonga (Tonga Islands)", :tpi=>"Tok Pisin", :tsi=>"Tsimshian", :tsn=>"Tswana", :tso=>"Tsonga", :tuk=>"Turkmen", :tum=>"Tumbuka", :tup=>"Tupi languages", :tur=>"Turkish", :tut=>"Altaic languages", :tvl=>"Tuvalu", :twi=>"Twi", :tyv=>"Tuvinian", :udm=>"Udmurt", :uga=>"Ugaritic", :uig=>"Uighur; Uyghur", :ukr=>"Ukrainian", :umb=>"Umbundu", :und=>"Undetermined", :urd=>"Urdu", :uzb=>"Uzbek", :vai=>"Vai", :ven=>"Venda", :vie=>"Vietnamese", :vol=>"Volapük", :vot=>"Votic", :wak=>"Wakashan languages", :wal=>"Walamo", :war=>"Waray", :was=>"Washo", :wel=>"Welsh", :wen=>"Sorbian languages", :wln=>"Walloon", :wol=>"Wolof", :xal=>"Kalmyk; Oirat", :xho=>"Xhosa", :yao=>"Yao", :yap=>"Yapese", :yid=>"Yiddish", :yor=>"Yoruba", :ypk=>"Yupik languages", :zap=>"Zapotec", :zbl=>"Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss", :zen=>"Zenaga", :zgh=>"Standard Moroccan Tamazight", :zha=>"Zhuang; Chuang", :znd=>"Zande languages", :zul=>"Zulu", :zun=>"Zuni", :zxx=>"No linguistic content; Not applicable", :zza=>"Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki"}