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Mines and mineral resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

A large group of people visiting a mine. Outsize photographs., Undated

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a , Item: 22-23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the mining activities of the Kali-Inla Coal Company. Kali-Inla Coal Company Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Aerial view of Picher, Oklahoma. World’s largest lead and zinc area (at that time) cir. 1925, circa 1925

 Item — Box Photo M-23, item: 549
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: circa 1925

Another view of “Little Jonny” Mine, Leadville Colo.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 66
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

Beck Mining Company’s Mill, Picher, Oklahoma. (Outsize), undated

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints and panoramas of the Grand River Dam, mining and smelting in the Picher, Oklahoma area, the town of Miami, Oklahoma and businesses. Also included are photographs of Will Rogers and of Quapaw and Seneca Indians.

Dates: undated

Bluegrass Mine, U.S. Mine in center and Beaver Mine in distance. Miami Ottawa County, Oklahoma. August 20, 1916. Photo – Perry., 1916 August 20

 Item — Box Photo W-30, item: 679
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: 1916 August 20

Central Mill, Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Company. Picher, Oklahoma (Outsize), undated

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 20-23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints and panoramas of the Grand River Dam, mining and smelting in the Picher, Oklahoma area, the town of Miami, Oklahoma and businesses. Also included are photographs of Will Rogers and of Quapaw and Seneca Indians.

Dates: undated

Cherokee Nation Papers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-943
Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)Official correspondence, letterpress copybooks, reports, chiefs' mesages, speeches of delegates, proceedings, laws, court decisions, acts, leases, election returns, registers of removal claims, and clippings relating to the affairs of the Cherokee Nation. Specifically included are groups of papers and records on the following subjects: the official Cherokee newspaper, the CHEROKEE ADVOCATE (1869-1906); the Cherokee Boundary Survey (1871-1873); Cherokee Nation censuses (1868-1901); the Cherokee Outlet (1871-1896); Citizenship (1856-1904); the Creek War or the William Cobb murder case (1880-1885); the Dawes Commission (1894-1907); Delegations, agents and attorneys (1816-1910); the Eastern (North Carolina) Cherokee (1871-1906); Education (1856-1906); Elections (1856-1901); the Cherokee Insane Asylum (1874-1907); Intruders (1868-1902);...
Dates: 1801-1982

Chickasaw Nation Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-1085
Scope and Contents

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Typescripts of laws (1871-1881) and newspaper articles (1874-1933) relating to the lands, institutions and the affairs of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.

Dates: 1871-1933

Close view of part of Colorado Iron and Fuel Co. Plant, Pueblo, Colo.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 55
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

Coleman Cole Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-117
Scope and Contents

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Choctaw Chief. Typescripts of correspondence relating to Choctaw participation in the Indian Union proposal developed in the Okmulgee Council; published speeches; Choctaw Tribal Council proceedings; accounts of Choctaw court cases; and other papers pertaining to intruders, tribal citizenship, and royalties from Choctaw coal lands, all during the period of Cole's tenure as Principal Chief, 1874-1878.

Dates: 1875-1879

Dewor mining crew 1912. Tanquary photo., 1912

 Item — Box Photo W-30, item: 675
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: 1912

Double story timbers reinforcing mine walls-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

Douglas H. Johnston Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-322
Scope and Contents

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Typescripts of various laws, speeches and special messages made by Johnston as Governor of the Chickasaw Nation before the Chickasaw Legislature, on issues such as tribal government, land, mineral resources, finances, claims, education and the ownership of slaves.

Dates: 1896-1936

Example of tunnel mining. Log timbers support rock ceiling. Horse drawn ore wagons-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 68
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

First aid to the injured in a coal mine., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-32, Item: 2193
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: undated

General view at distance of McKinley Gold Mine at Cripple Creek, Colo.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 48
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

General view from distance of cyanide plant near Colo. Springs, Colo. Property of A.S. and R. Co.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 51
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

General view from distance of Elkton Gold Mine, in Colo.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 45
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

General view of new hoisting shaft at Portland Gold Mine, in Colo.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

General view of Portland Gold Mine, in Colo.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 34
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

Gilbert Wesley Dukes Collection

 Collection — Box D-29
Identifier: WHC-M-174
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Typescripts of correspondence written during Dukes' tenure as Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation and relating to leases, stockraising, and Choctaw schools, together with speeches, biographical information, and political writings reflecting the problems involved in the transition from tribal government to territorial and ultimately state jurisdiction.

Dates: 1877-1905

Goldhill, Nevada, 1868., 1868

 Item — Box Photo P-34b, Item: 3222
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...
Dates: 1868

Group of mine workers relaxing near building before descending in cage at Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado.-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

Heavy timbering supporting walls of tunnel-1907., 1907

 Item — Box Photo C-14, item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of mines and mining at Cripple Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Leadville, and Victor, Colorado. The collection also contains some scenes of cattle ranching and Pikes Peak.

Dates: 1907

Incline tram to Lennon Mine., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-30, item: 678
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Joe Wayne Simons (great grandson of last miner to escape) standing next to monument for Mine Disaster in Adamson, Oklahoma Sept. 4, 1914-1975, 1914-1975

 Item — Box Photo M-22, item: 448
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: 1914-1975