Hollis Public Library Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
Black and white copy prints of Hollis, Bethel, Dryden, Looney and Metcalf, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of businesses, postal service, agriculture, parades, schools, school children, and studio portraits from these communities during both the territorial and statehood periods.
Dates
- Creation: 1878-1966
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
98 items (98 items)
Language of Materials
English Lang
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of the Hollis Public Libtrary.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photoprints: Source of acquisition--Hollis Public Library. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1981.
Subject
- Hollis Public Library (Okla.) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Bethel (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Dryden (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Hollis (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Looney (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Metcalf (Okla.) -- Description and travel
Topical
- Automobiles -- Oklahoma
- Automobiles -- Oklahoma -- Maintenance and repair
- Bands (Music) -- Oklahoma
- Banks and banking -- Oklahoma
- Baptism
- Baptists -- Oklahoma
- Barbershops -- Oklahoma
- Carriages and carts -- Oklahoma
- Corn -- Harvesting -- Machinery
- Cotton -- Oklahoma -- Marketing
- Cotton gins and ginning -- Oklahoma
- Cotton picking -- Oklahoma
- Drugstores -- Oklahoma
- Earth houses -- Oklahoma
- Farm life -- Oklahoma
- Farmers -- Oklahoma
- Farms -- Oklahoma
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Grocers -- Oklahoma
- Hardware stores -- Oklahoma
- Laundry industry -- Oklahoma
- Laundry workers -- Oklahoma
- Log cabins -- Oklahoma
- Methodist Church -- Oklahoma
- Oil wells -- Oklahoma
- Parades -- Oklahoma
- Photography -- Oklahoma -- Studios and dark rooms
- Picnics -- Oklahoma
- Post office buildings -- Oklahoma
- Postal service -- Oklahoma -- Equipment and supplies
- Postal service -- Oklahoma -- Letter carriers
- Restaurants -- Oklahoma
- Rural free delivery -- Oklahoma
- School children -- Oklahoma
- Schools -- Oklahoma
- Taverns (Inns) -- Oklahoma
- Threshing -- Oklahoma
- Threshing machines -- Oklahoma
- Tractors -- Oklahoma
- Washing machines
- 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
