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Circus

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

American Indians and others lined up to enter a circus tent. Anadarko (Okla.), 1899., 1899

 Item — Box Photo P-5, Item: 207
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1899

Circus, undated

 File — Box B-41, item: 1537-1567
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains photographs of various subjects, such as, nature, industry, and historic locations throughout Oklahoma. Also included are additional paper materials regarding information on photo developments, schedules, and photo releases.

Dates: undated

John Berlin Fink Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-2370
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1925-1955

Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-407
Scope and Contents

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General correspondence (1917-1935), and financial records (1923-1932) from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch in Marland, Oklahoma; and general correspondence (1908-1932), legal papers and contracts (1908-1932), daily expense reports (1926), programs (1908-1932), route schedules (1910-1929), and scrapbooks (1908-1926), from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show. Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1908-1932

Pawnee Bill’s and Buffalo Bill’s Circus. Handwriting on back “Pawnee Bill’s and Buffalo Bill’s Circus.” Picture taken 1910 (silver wedding anniversary) approximately 350 people sitting and standing in rows in full costume-Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill seated in center., 1910

 Item — Box Photo L-12, item: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1910

Pawnee Bill’s Wild West and Great Far East and Museum tents with performers and Band posed in front. Some 20 persons in photo around 1920. Four interesting canvas posters in background announcing different acts in the show., circa 1920

 Item — Box Photo L-12, item: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: circa 1920

Post card. Detroit 1923. Circus acts and fireworks managed by N.C. Chapman presented by Shadukian Grotto “The Awakening.” Outdoor entertainment., 1923

 Item — Box Photo L-15, item: 368
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1923

Ringling Bros.  Circus using tractors for raising canvas of main tent.  This job was formerly done by elephants, is now done by 2 case tractors and 1 caterpillar Diesel D-4., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-15, item: 62
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of the petroleum industry, including oil wells, oil fields, drilling operations, refineries, laboratories, company employees, petroleum-based products, shipping, and pipeline construction. The collection also includes images of farming, and new york City, new york.

Dates: undated

Scene from setting up circus ring., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-16, item: 403
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Scene from setting up circus ring., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-16, item: 404
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Snapshot of a decorated circus elephant., undated

 Item — Box Photo C-8, item: 50
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints and tintypes of Quapaw, Chippewa, Delaware, Potawatomi, Caddo, Osage and Peoria Indians. Also includes scenes of Wyandotte and Lincolnville, Oklahoma, and Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania.

Dates: undated

View of fairgrounds on Circus Day. Range, Texas Co., Oklahoma Sept. 9, 1912, 1912, September 9

 Item — Box Photo M-22, item: 436
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1912; September 9