Robert E. Cunningham Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
Black and white glass plate negatives from original prints, original glass plate negatives and copy prints of settlement scenes of Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Perry and Lawton, Oklahoma Territory. Included are scenes of numerous other Oklahoma towns, the oil industry, businesses, railroads, farming, the military, and cowboys, along with studio portraits of Afro-Americans. The collection also contains photographs of the Land Run of 1893.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1930
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
726 items (726 items)
Language of Materials
English Lang
Ownership and Custodial History
Purchased.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Glas plate negatives: Source of acquisition--Unknown. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1978.
Subject
- Cornish, Geo. B. (George Bancroft) (Person)
- Cunningham, Robert E. (Robert Earl), 1906-1991 (Person)
- Prettyman, William S., 1858-1932 (Person)
- United States. Army -- : Artillery. (Organization)
- United States. Army. Cavalry (Organization)
- United States. Army. Infantry (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Arkansas City (Kan.) -- Description and travel
- Beaver (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Cimarron River (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Guthrie (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Lawton (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Lawyers -- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma -- Description and travel
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land rush, 1893
- Oklahoma City (Okla.)
- Perry (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Ponca City (Okla.) -- Description and travel
Topical
- Actors -- Oklahoma
- African Americans -- Oklahoma
- Automobiles -- Oklahoma
- Bands (Music) -- Oklahoma
- Banks and banking -- Oklahoma
- Baptism
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Oklahoma
- Bees (Cooperative gatherings) -- Oklahoma -- Photographs
- Bridges -- Oklahoma
- Butcher shops -- Oklahoma
- Carriages and carts -- Oklahoma
- Cattle -- Oklahoma
- Cotton -- Oklahoma -- Marketing
- Cotton gins and ginning -- Oklahoma
- Cotton picking -- Oklahoma
- Cowboys -- Oklahoma
- Drugstores -- Oklahoma
- Farmers -- Oklahoma
- Farms -- Oklahoma
- Ferries -- Oklahoma
- Fire engines -- Oklahoma
- Fire fighters -- Oklahoma
- Floods -- Oklahoma -- Perkins
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Hardware stores -- Oklahoma
- Horses -- Oklahoma
- Hotels -- Oklahoma
- Hunting -- Oklahoma
- Land settlement -- Oklahoma
- Laundry industry -- Oklahoma
- Law enforcement -- Oklahoma
- Locomotives -- Oklahoma
- Oil fields -- Oklahoma
- Oil storage tanks
- Oil wells -- Equipment and supplies -- Oklahoma
- Oil wells -- Oklahoma
- Parades -- Oklahoma
- Petroleum workers -- Oklahoma
- Photography -- Oklahoma -- Studios and dark rooms
- Postal service -- Oklahoma
- Public baths -- Oklahoma
- Railroad stations -- Oklahoma
- Railroads -- Design and construction -- Oklahoma
- Railroads -- Rolling-stock -- Oklahoma
- Ranches -- Oklahoma
- Restaurants -- Oklahoma
- Sawmills -- Oklahoma
- School children -- Oklahoma
- Schools -- Oklahoma
- Sewing -- Oklahoma
- Sod houses -- Oklahoma
- Stables -- Oklahoma
- Surveying -- Oklahoma -- Instruments
- Surveyors -- Oklahoma
- Theaters -- Oklahoma
- Tractors -- Oklahoma
- United States marshals
- Wagons -- Oklahoma
- Windmills -- Oklahoma
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Monnet Hall, 3rd Floor
630 Parrington Oval
Norman Oklahoma 73019
405-325-2904
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
