Stores, Retail -- Oklahoma

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.

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Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

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Transcripts of interviews with pioneers who took part in the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma, with accompanying township maps showing the homesteads of settlers. The collection also includes historical and cultural information about the Indian tribes, including the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw) and Ponca, that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip. The final part of the collection consists of correspondence and field notebooks written by Orville Stanley Smith and Theodore H. Barrett during an 1871 survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation in Dakota Territory. Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Photograph Collection also in repository.

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A daily account book belonging to Houghton, who owned general merchandise stores in Guthrie, Coyle, Cashion, Meridian, and Goodnight, Oklahoma.

Black and white copy prints of the town of Hackberry, which later became Sharon, Oklahoma, showing businesses, street scenes, and the railroad depot.

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Genealogies compiled by Maude Spencer of the Clinkenbeard and Willford families, including information regarding the captivity and rescue of relatives kidnapped by Delaware Indians in 1757; and a history of the Winchester store in Winchester, Woods County, Oklahoma.

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Mercantile company. Ledgers (1932-1935) listing the goods sold and prices charged in the Shumate Department Store in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma during the Depression.

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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General correspondence (1912-1930), bills of lading (1911-1921), account ledgers (1904-1928), and orders (1914-1924) of the Zweigel Mercantile Company of Atoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The collection also includes oil, gas and mining leases (1935) to Choctaw Indian lands.