Indians of North America -- Missions
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
A forest scene showing foundation stones which are believed to have been those of a Spanish mission during the 1600’s., Undated
Black-and-white original prints of Mangum, Oklahoma Territory and State; and Greer County, Texas and Oklahoma Territory. also included are scenes of the range cattle industry, businesses, schools, and farming.
A group of men, Indians and whites, taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
An Indian man from Cache Creek Mountain, Undated
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
An Indian teepee at Cache Creek Mission, Undated
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Arthur W. Evans Collection
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Collector. Correspondence (1906–1968); certificates (1891–1918); and news clippings (1928–1939) regarding University of Oklahoma president Arthur Grant Evans, federal funding for schools in Indian Territory, the issue of separate statehood for Oklahoma and Indian territories, and Evans’s participation in the United States’ propaganda effort in World War I; a typescript regarding the history (1816–1831) of the Presbyterian church and missions in the eastern Cherokee Nation; a diary (1887) of A. G. Evans; and original records (1830–1857) of the New Echota Church in the Cherokee Nation, as recorded by Samuel A. Worcester, church clerk. Arthur W. Evans Photograph Collection also in repository.
Boys or students at Cache Creek Mission, West of Apache, Oklahoma. Negative, 5x7, Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Boys or students Cache Creek Mission, West of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Cache Creek Mission, built in 1892, 1892
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Cache Creek Mission ground, 1895, 1895
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Cache Creek Mission picnic, Undated
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Camp grounds at the Cache Creek Mission, Undated
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Choir, St. Patrick’s Indian pupils. Dietrick’s Opera House, Anadarko, Oklahoma March 17, 1909. 2 copy prints, 5x7. Negative, 5x7., 1909 March 17
Black and white copy prints of Catholic churches, schools and monastic orders in Oklahoma. Also includes Osage and Quapaw Indians and scenes of Guthrie, Boley, Langston, Fairfax, Ardmore, Antlers and Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Comanche family group. Albert Attocknie and his wife Faye who is holding their child in her arms. Taken at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Comanche family group. Seated is David and Choppy Poatpybitty with family taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Comanche lady and her two children taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Lady is Choppy Poatpybitty. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Comanche lady named Pomo-no-vah-ehy, wife of Henry Wallace at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Pomo-no-vah-ehy means “bending over while picking something.”, Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Comanche man, Mr. Yellowfish, his wife and child. Photo taken at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Comanches going to church, Undated
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Congregation at the temporary building of the Walter Indian Baptist Church., undated
Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.
Congregation of Deyo Mission., undated
Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.
Construction of the Cache Creek Mission dormitory, Undated
Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
D. C. Ward Collection
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Missionary. A typescript of an article (1939) regarding the history of the Cache Creek Indian Mission, located in southwestern Oklahoma, which ministered to various Plains Indian tribes. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.
Deacons from three missions: Deyo, Post Oak and Walters., undated
Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.
Division of Manuscripts Collection
Drawing of the First Mission Church of Episcopal Methodism, and graves of its first missionary (Rev. John Stewart) and converts. History of the church is on the back of the photograph showing the location of the graves and the names of the Wyandot Chiefs buried there. Drawing shows graves in front of a small church building in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Church was build in 1824, with this photograph being made in 1861. Original print, 4x6. Photographer’s board., 1861
Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.
Emma H. DeKnight Collection
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Teacher. A diary (1886-1892) kept by DeKnight, relating her experiences as a teacher at the Chilocco Indian School and the Otoe School at the Red Rock Indian Agency, both in Indian Territory. The primary emphasis of the diary is on the time Deknight spent among the Otos and includes a list (1887) of her Oto students.
Floy Duncum Collection
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Collector. Memoirs (n.d.) of James Louis Avant, relating his experiences as bailiff of the U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas at Fort Smith, and as a Disciplinarian of the Kiowa Government Schools at Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, along with anecdotes of a hunting trip in the Kiamichi (Oklahoma) Mountains, plus two obituaries (1941) of Avant.
Folsom Training School Collection
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School. Business and legal records (1922-1975) of the Folsom Training School, a Methodist mission school for Indians located in Smithville, Oklahoma; Folsom Reunion Association correspondence and mailing lists (1968, 1985-1986); history of Sealey Chapel Methodist Church with announcements (1966, 1970, 1981-1986) of Folsom reunions; and an article concerning the school.
Four boys or students at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Comanche boy on right is Nat Perkaquanard., Undated
Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.
Funeral of Rev. E.C. Deyo at Deyo Mission after 33 years of service at that station., undated
Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.