John Wesley Morris Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1975
Creator
- Morris, John W., 1907-1982 (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
449 items (449 items)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of John Wesley Morris.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photoprints: Source of acquisition--Morris, John Wesley. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1983.
Subject
- Morris, John W., 1907-1982 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Agriculture -- Oklahoma
- Automobiles -- Oklahoma
- Banks and banking -- Oklahoma
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Oklahoma
- Bridges -- Oklahoma
- Business enterprises -- Oklahoma
- Butcher shops -- Oklahoma
- Carriages and carts -- Oklahoma
- Cherokee Indians -- Dwellings
- Chickasaw Indians -- Education
- Choctaw Indians -- Oklahoma
- Cities and towns -- Oklahoma
- Cotton -- Oklahoma
- Cotton gins and ginning -- Oklahoma
- Creek Indians -- Dwellings
- Creek Indians -- Education
- Distilleries -- Oklahoma
- Distilling industries -- Oklahoma
- Dust storms -- Oklahoma
- Farmers -- Oklahoma
- Fishing -- Oklahoma
- Floods -- Oklahoma -- Seminole
- Fox Indians -- Oklahoma
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Grain elevators -- Oklahoma
- Grocers -- Oklahoma
- Hardware stores -- Oklahoma
- Health resorts -- Oklahoma
- Hotels -- Oklahoma
- Locomotives -- Oklahoma
- Logging -- Oklahoma
- Mines and mineral resources -- Oklahoma
- Oil wells -- Oklahoma
- Postal service -- Oklahoma
- Quarries and quarrying -- Oklahoma
- Railroad stations -- Oklahoma
- Sauk Indians -- Oklahoma
- Sawmills -- Oklahoma
- School children -- Oklahoma
- Schools -- Oklahoma
- Sod houses -- Oklahoma
- Steamboats -- Oklahoma
- Stone industry and trade -- Oklahoma
- Wagons -- 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
