Jerry Whistler Snow Collection
Scope and Contents
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Correspondence (1893-1915) to and from various members of the Whistler family regarding life in Oklahoma Territory, describing a first ride in an automobile, sicknesses, diseases and quarantines, floods, Sac and Fox Indian dances and customs, the Sac and Fox Indian Agency and its Agent, Lee Patrick, the Chilicco Indian School, Wild West shows, and holiday celebrations. Correspondents include Maude Mayes Whistler, Pearl Mayes Whistler, and Gertrude Naden. Jerry Whistler Snow Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1893-1915
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
2 ft. (2 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Jerry Whistler Snow.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Snow, Jerry Whistler. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1986.
- Abortion -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Automobiles -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Buckskin Bill's Historical Wild West Show
- Carl Hagenbeck's Circus
- Chilocco Indian School -- : Oklahoma.
- Climate -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Diseases -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Epidemics -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Floods -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Flynn, Dennis Thomas, 1861-1939
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Holidays Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indian land transfers -- Oklahoma -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Kenneth, Margaret
- Keokuk, Frank
- Land settlement -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lincoln County Producer's Association (Okla.)
- Nadan, Gertrude
- Oklahoma -- Health and hygiene Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- History -- 1907- Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- History -- To 1907 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Patrick, Lee
- Quarantine -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Railroads -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Snow, Jerry Whistler
- St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. La Pointe Agency
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sac and Fox Agency (Kan. and Okla.)
- Whistler, Maude Mayes
- Whistler, Pearl Mayes
- Wild west shows Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- 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
