Walter S. Ferguson Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
Black and white original and copy prints of Oklahoma outlaws, lawmen, agriculture, wild west shows, land openings, businesses, towns and cities, schools, settlers, members of the state government and of the U.S. Army. Also included are images of Cherokee, Osage, Delaware, Seminole, Comanche, Creek, and Apache Indians. Walter S. Ferguson Manuscript Collection also in repository.
Dates
- Creation: 1870-1920
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
735 items (735 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"}
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Walter S. Ferguson.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photoprints: Source of acquisition--Ferguson, Walter S. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--9999.
Subject
- Bacon Rind, (Osage Indian), 1860-1932 (Person)
- Bass, Sam, 1851-1878 (Person)
- Bean, Roy, -1903 (Person)
- Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942 (Person)
- Billy, the Kid (Person)
- Broadwell, Dick, 1862-1892 (Person)
- Bruner, Heck, -1902 (Person)
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 (Person)
- Canton, Frank, 1849-1927 (Person)
- Cherokee Bill, 1876-1896 (Person)
- Chisholm, Jesse (Person)
- Colcord, Charles Francis, 1859-1934 (Person)
- Cook, Bill, 1873-1900 (Person)
- Cruce, Lee, 1863-1933 (Person)
- Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972 (Person)
- Debo, Angie, 1890-1988 (Person)
- Doolin, Bill, 1858-1896 (Person)
- Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929 (Person)
- Ferguson, Walter Scott, 1886-1936 (Person)
- Foreman, Grant, 1869-1953 (Person)
- Geronimo, 1829-1909 (Person)
- Gore, Thomas P. (Thomas Pryor), 1870-1949 (Person)
- Hickok, Wild Bill, 1837-1876 (Person)
- Houston, Temple Lea, 1860-1905 (Person)
- Journeycake, Charles, 1817-1894 (Person)
- Journeycake, Isaac (Person)
- Ledbetter, William A. (Person)
- Madsen, Christian, 1851-1944 (Person)
- Miller, Zack, 1878-1952 (Person)
- Murray, William H. (William Henry), 1869-1956 (Person)
- Owen, Thomas Horner, 1873-1938 (Person)
- Payne, David Lewis, 1836-1884 (Person)
- Pike, Albert, 1809-1891 (Person)
- Porter, Pleasant (Person)
- Posey, Alexander Lawrence, 1873-1908 (Person)
- Powers, Bill (Person)
- Robertson, Alice, 1854-1931 (Person)
- Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 (Person)
- Starr, Henry, 1873-1921 (Person)
- Thomas, Elmer, 1876-1965 (Person)
- Thomas, Heck, 1850-1912 (Person)
- Tolbert, Paden, -1904 (Person)
- United States. Army -- : African American troops. (Organization)
- United States. Army. Cavalry (Organization)
- Oklahoma. Supreme Court (Organization)
- Dalton family (Family)
- Dalton Gang (Organization)
- Ketcham, Jim (Person)
- Stink, John (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Ada (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Ardmore (Okla.) -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Ardmore (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- Pictorial works
- Coffeyville (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
- El Reno (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Guthrie (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Kingfisher (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Lawton (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Muskogee (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1889
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land rush, 1893
- Oklahoma -- Law and legislation
- Oklahoma City (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Perry (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
- Tulsa (Okla.) -- Pictorial works
Topical
- American bison
- Apache Indians -- Arms and armor
- Apache Indians -- Clothing
- Bands (Music) -- Oklahoma
- Banks and banking -- Oklahoma
- Barbershops -- Oklahoma
- Carriages and carts -- Oklahoma
- Cherokee Indians -- Clothing
- Cherokee Indians -- Dwellings
- Cherokee Indians -- Government relations
- Comanche Indians -- Clothing
- Creek Indians -- Politics and government
- Delaware Indians -- Government relations
- Dust storms -- Oklahoma
- Floods -- Oklahoma -- Beaver
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Hotels -- Oklahoma
- Indian beadwork -- North America
- Land settlement -- Oklahoma
- Lumber-yards -- Oklahoma
- Motion pictures -- Oklahoma
- Oil wells -- Oklahoma
- Osage Indians -- Clothing
- Osage Indians -- Government relations
- Ponca Indians -- Clothing
- Printing machinery and supplies
- Printing plants
- Printing presses
- Railroad stations -- Oklahoma
- Railroads -- Rolling-stock -- Oklahoma
- Tornadoes
- United States marshals
- Wagons -- Oklahoma
- Wild west shows
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu