Oil fields -- Texas

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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.

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Black and white copy prints of Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation operations, facilities, and employees. Included are scenes of the oil industry in California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming, and in Canada and Colombia, along with photographs of Bartlesville, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Tulsa, Seminole, Oklahoma City, Cushing, Ponca City, Dilworth, Pleasant Valley, Okmulgee, and Tallant, Oklahoma. There are also photographs of numerous Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation employees, and of Osage Indians, icluding Mo She To Moi, Black Dog, Bacon Rind, and Tse Mah Hah.

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Black-and-white copy prints of independent oil producer Tom Slick and of the Cushing, Oklahoma City, and Tonkawa, Oklahoma, oil fields. The collection also includes photographs of the Slick and Urschel families. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black-and-white copy prints of independent oil producer Tom Slick and of the Cushing, Oklahoma City, and Tonkawa, Oklahoma, oil fields. The collection also includes photographs of the Slick and Urschel families. Unpublished finding aid available.

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FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Historian. Correspondence (1985-1999) and research materials (1904-2000) compiled by Ray Miles for his dissertation and biography on oilman Thomas Baker Slick, titled King of the Wildcatters: The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930.

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF) Attorney and oilman. Correspondence (1927-1962), business and general files (1903-1990), and financial records (1904-1974) of Wirt Franklin, a longtime citizen of Ardmore, Oklahoma, who was key in developing the Healdton Field. His papers span nearly the length of his six-decade career as an attorney and oilman. Among them are the records of Apple & Franklin, his law practice with Samuel Apple, which represented citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations in citizenship claims and guardianship cases in the early 20th century. The largest portion of the collection consists of the business and financial files of his many companies and partnerships, including the Crystal Oil Company, Wirtaine Petroleum Corporation, Ardmore Investment Company, Franklin, Aston & Fair, and others. The collection also documents his work as a Special Field Assistant for...