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Law enforcement -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Rennie Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1421
Scope and Contents

A black and white original print of a jury, judge, and marshal in Ardmore, Indian Territory. Albert Rennie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1892

Charles B. Rhodes Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo R-5
Identifier: WHC-P-1422
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy and original prints of Judge Isaac Parker and federal marshals who operated out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Also included are photographs of some of the outlaws captured or killed by the marshals. Charles B. Rhodes Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1880-1930

Dewey County Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-835
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Dewey County, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of the towns of Camargo, Taloga, Seiling and Putnam, along with images of farming, transportation, homesteads, businesses, and personalities.

Dates: 1890-1915

Edward Everett Dale Collection

 Collection — Drawer 8607
Identifier: WHC-M-146
Scope and Contents

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Historian. Correspondence, student term papers, theses and dissertations, and personal research materials regarding the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, the state of Oklahoma, Indians of North America and the American Southwest; teaching materials used by Dale at Harvard and the University of Oklahoma; administrative and other files of the Works Progress Administration's Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; U.S. Government documents issued by various cabinet-level departments and agencies, including Agriculture and Interior; and a portion of the University of Oklahoma Persidential papers of James Shannon Buchanan and Stratton D. Brooks. Edward Everett Dale Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1865-1948

Kiowa County Historical Society Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1692
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white copy prints of Chickasha, Indian Territory; Mountain Park, Cooperton, Roosevelt, Cold Springs, Newkirk, Enid, Hobart and Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Also photographs of farming, businesses, railroads, and the oil industry. Also scenes of Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians with photographs of Delos Lone Wolf, Geronimo and Quanah Parker.

Dates: 1870-1948

Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1971
Scope and Contents

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Scrapbooks of clippings (1957-1961) from Oklahoma newspapers on the activities of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Dates: 1957-1961

Robert E. Cunningham Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1666
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: 1880-1930

The first jury convened in Wewoka for Seminole County, 1908. Sixteen men are pictured in suits. Photo by Glen Spettel., 1908

 Item — Box Photo C-7, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the Seminole Council house and Seminole Nation Governor's residence near Wewoka, Oklahoma, along with a print of the first jury convened in Wewoka for Seminole county.

Dates: 1908