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Postal service -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

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

Shawnee Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1124
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Hazel, Sayre, Shawnee, Romulus, and Newalla, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of schools, businesses, farming, railroads, sawmills and mining.

Dates: 1896-1928

Small frame building that served as the post office at Reed, Oklahoma. The employees have posed outside. There are two horse drawn enclosed buggies and two motorcycles for rural delivery, Circa 1910

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original print of postal workers and the post office at Reed, Oklahoma. Kenneth E. Crook Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Circa 1910

Territorial Oklahoma Manuscripts Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-1937
Scope and Contents

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Subject collection. Typescript and original manuscript accounts by pioneers and frontiersmen regarding the settlement of No Man's Land and the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.

Dates: 1881-1907

Tim Hicks Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo H-27
Identifier: WHC-P-1589
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Ardmore, Oklahoma and Marietta, Indian Territory. The collection includes photographs of the postal service, businesses, school children and Woodsmen of the World.

Dates: 1895-1929

W. E. Tomlinson Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1643
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of Lawton, Oklahoma Territory, including street scenes, businesses, United States marshals, the Lawton police, and railroads. W. E. Tomlinson Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1878-1901

W. L. Payne Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1493
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Okfuskee, Indian Territory and Okemah, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including street scenes, views of businesses, cotton marketing, and outlaws.

Dates: 1874-1925

William B. Randall Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1635
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of oil drilling activities in Osage County, Oklahoma Territory, and scenes of the towns of Ramona, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Claremore, Webbers Falls, Dewey, Tulsa, Miami, Bartlesville, Garvin, Avant, and Skiatook, Oklahoma. The collection also contains scenes of the U.S. Army, railroads, busineses, and schools. William B. Randall Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1900-1930

William Matthew Tilghman Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1165
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of Oklahoma marshals, outlaws, frontier life, and agriculture along with scenes of the communities of Perry, Guthrie, Fort Sill and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of Apache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux and Wichita Indians. William M. Tilghman Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1889-1925

Woodward County Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1186
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1893-1915