Agriculture -- Oklahoma

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Black and white copy prints of businesses, street scenes and buildings, railroads, farm scenes, families, schools and recreation in Ada, Roff and Wetumka, Oklahoma.

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Black and white copy prints of Boyce and Alice Timmons, Cherokee Indians, Osage Indians, and the Tyner family.

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Black and white original and copy prints of Osage and Kaw Indians, oil wells, farming scenes, schools, and scenes of Guymon and Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory.

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Black and white copy prints of Dustin, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including scenes of businesses, railroads, farming, and cotton gins. The collection also contains a scene of Cromwell, Oklahoma and a photograph of Creek Indians.

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Black and white original prints of Sac and Fox Indians. The collection includes views of Sac and Fox housing, agriculture, and transportation. Arza Bailey Collins Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Black and white copy prints of Buffalo, Charleston, Selman, Augusta, Fargo, Dacoma, Wakita, Brule and Doby Springs, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of businesses, families, farming, ranching, sod houses, schools and school children in and around these Oklahoma communities.

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Black and white original prints of Navajoe, Oklahoma Territory, and Altus, Oklahoma Territory and state. The collection includes scenes of ranching, grain elevators, farming, and the storage and moving trade.

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Black and white copy prints of Camargo, Oklahoma scenes of railroad accidents, sod houses, businesses and farming activities.

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Black and white copy prints of Marlow, Oklahoma, and the Waters family.

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Black and white copy prints of Arapaho, Clinton, Corn and Thomas, Oklahoma. Also included are scenes of agriculture, dust storms, funerals, houses, churches, and schools. The majority of the collection deals with the Mennonites in Washita County, Oklahoma.

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Black and white copy prints of Vince Dillion photographs of the Miller Brothes 101 Wild West Show and Ranch. Included are scenes of cowboys, cowgirls, and Indian performers, along with photographs of Pawnee Bill's Old Town, Ponca City, and Fairfax Oklahoma.

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Black and white original glass plate negatives with copy prints of Cheyenne, Nez Perce, Kiowa, Sac and Fox, Pawnee, Ponca, Apache, Iowa, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Cherokee, Creek, Sioux, Kaw, Osage, and Oto Indians. Also includes scenes of farming, ranching, wild west shows, railroads, oil wells and Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory.

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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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Black and white copy prints of Porum, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including photographs of businesses, railroads, school children, farming, ranching, mining and family portraits.

Scope and Contents 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...

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Black and white copy prints of Cordell, Oklahoma, including street scenes, businesses, railroads, cotton harvesting and a photograph of Quanah Parker's star house at Cache, Oklahoma.

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Black and white original prints of Harrah, Oklahoma Territory and state, and of Polish-American families in the area. Included are street scenes, weddings, businesses and the Oklahoma Gas and Electric plant at Harrah.

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Black and white copy prints of Czech Americans from the towns of Bison, Goltry, Banner and Prague, Oklahoma. The collection includes scenes of weddings, schools, churches, and farming.

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Black and white copy prints of Sentinel, Oklahoma, including photographs of street scenes, businesses, farming, cotton gins and baptisms.

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Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Chickasha and Minco, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and Tuttle, Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of street scenes, businesses, agriculture, railroads, schools, ferries, fire fighters, airplanes, and electric railroads.

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Black and white original prints of the interior of the J.D. Simpson hardware store in Arapaho, Oklahoma Territory, along with a scene of Simpson's farming activity.

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Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

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Black and white copy prints of Cloud Chief, Oklahoma Territory, and the towns of Ardmore, Foss, Gotebo, and Cordell, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of businesses, railroads, farming, picnicking, schools, a Ku Klux Klan parade and tornado damage. James Franklin Parman Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Photographer and collector. Black and white original prints of railroads in Oklahoma, including scenes of depots, locomotives, rolling stock, bridges and track. The collection also contains photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns, industries, agriculture, businesses and mining activities.

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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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Black and white original prints of Kingfisher, Oklahoma Territory and state, including scenes of businesses, farming, railroads, cotton marketing, firefighters and schools. The collection also contains a photograph of Onego, Oklahoma.

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Black and white original prints of Garber, Oklahoma Territory, including scenes of farming, businesses, oil wells, bands and schools.

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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.

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Black and white original prints of Bluejacket, Indian Territory. Included in the collection are scenes of farming, schools, and railroads.

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A family history entitled, As My World Turns, by Lena Rivers Been Miller. This work is a brief spiral bound autobiography of Lena Rivers Been Miller that describes many of her early life experiences in Clinton, Foss, and Parkersburg, Oklahoma, including notes on family life, education, entertainment, and local events. Also contains information on the Barnes and Been family genealogies.