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Petroleum workers -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur James Williams Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1679
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: 1910-1940

George Case Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1527
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Dewey, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The collection includes street scenes, oil drilling activities in the Weber Pool near Dewey, school children, and an airplane manufactured by the Dewey Airplane Company.

Dates: 1905-1918

Magnolia Petroleum Company Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo M-2
Identifier: WHC-P-1536
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of oil field activities near Wirt, Oklahoma and Healdton, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1914-1924

Martha T. Swearingen Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1625
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Ramona, Indian Territory and Oklahoma state, including scenes of businesses, ranching, and oil storage construction. Martha T. Swearingen Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1904-1930

Moore Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1614
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Moore and Snyder, Oklahoma Territory; Norman, Cement, Welch, Frederick, Stroud, Davidson, Vinita, Tipton, Peek, Ioland, Damon, and Elmore City, Oklahoma; and Coweta, Indian Territory. Included are scenes of businesses, the oil industry, railroads, parades, the University of Oklahoma, football, cotton marketing, and fire fighters.

Dates: 1900-1925

Nigel Anthony Sellars Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-2623
Scope and Contents

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Manuscripts (1987-2000) by historian Nigel Anthony Sellars for his book"Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930" and for Sellars's articles and essays on Oklahoma labor issues, labor unions, and the Industrial Workers of the World during the period of 1905-1930; research materials collected by Sellars for his writings; and publications (1980-2001) regarding labor and socialist issues in Oklahoma and the nation.



Dates: 1905-2001

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

Rose Mary Burt Wyatt Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1445
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of oil wells, railroad construction and the towns of Kiefer and Shamrock, Oklahoma. The collection also includes scenes of Sacred Heart Mission. Rose Mary Burt Wyatt Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1900-1918

Seminole Producer Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1627
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of the towns of Seminole and Bowlegs, Oklahoma during the oil boom of the 1920's. The collection includes scenes of the towns and oil production activities.

Dates: 1920-1936

Stephens County Historical Museum Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1648
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Comanche, Empire City and Marlow, Oklahoma, and Duncan, Indian Territory. The collection includes photographs of businesses, farming, street scenes, firefighters, schools, banks, and the oil industry.

Dates: 1880-1980

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 H. Keown Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-2118
Scope and Contents

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Collector. Publications concerning different aspects of the oil industry, including water flooding and conservation; abstracts of real estate titles from Oklahoma counties; and directories from both the East Texas and Oklahoma City Associations of Petroleum Landmen.

Dates: 1951-1977