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Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1893

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

A boomer camp in Arkansas City, Kansas, where prospective settlers were waiting for the Cherokee Strip to open. May 1, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

Cherokee Strip Opening, entering land by trail and train, 1893. (Outsized) , 1893

 Item — Box Photo O-1, Oversize Box: Photo Room 9a
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory and Oklahoma; statehood day activities in Guthrie, Oklahoma and the opening of the Cherokee Strip. Liberty National Bank Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1893

Colored postcard entitled “Run of 1889.” However, image is based on Prettyman photo of the 1893 Run into the Cherokee Strip., 1893

 Item — Box Photo P-30, Item: 2034
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: 1893

Crossing Salt Fork River near Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory Wagon train of Boomers, c. 1880’s., 1880’s

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1880’s

Drawing for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory, 10 a.m., July 29, 1901., 1901

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1901

Drawing for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory The drawing took place at El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, beginning at 10 a.m., July 29, 1901. It was held on the platform with canvas roof shown in the left center of the picture. The method of opening w, 1901

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1901

Drawing for Kiowa Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory The tops of freight cars furnished seats for some of the interested 30,000 persons who witnessed this drawing.

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893-1901

El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, period of registration for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory July 10 to July 26 inclusive, 1901; this picture taken in the morning shows the refreshment stands in the streets, which served hot dogs and drinks., 1901

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1901

First train leaving the line north of Orlando for Perry, September 16, 1893. Opening for the Cherokee Strip., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

Getting ready for The Run of 1893 when the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlement.  Negative enclosed, 1893

 Item — Box Photo L-4, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Cheyenne Indians, and scenes of settlers waiting for the land run near Tipton, Oklahoma Territory.

Dates: 1893

Homesteaders (“Strippers”) waiting in line to register for the run into the Cherokee Strip at Orlando, Oklahoma Territory, September 11, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

In line at the land office, Perry, Oklahoma Territory, September 22, 1893, 9 a.m., waiting to file claims., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

Line at Post Office, Perry, Oklahoma Territory, October 16, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 31
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

Line-up of men, horses and wagons waiting for the starting gun at the land opening of the Cherokee Outlet Strip. 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

Opening of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory Six of the 33 employees of the General Land Office who were detailed to assist in the opening.

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893-1901

Registering at Oklahoma Strip Run. Orlando, Oklahoma. 7:00am, September 11, 1893., 1893 September 11

 Item — Box Photo M-4, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Guthrie and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory and state. Photographs in the collection include scenes of businesses, the street car system, and of the Run of 1893, taken near Orlando, Oklahoma Territory. Also included are photographs of Wichita and Comanche Indians.

Dates: 1893 September 11

Registering for the land run. Hoke Smith’s grand … booth. Crowd surrounding four tents. Probably Orlando, O.T., September, 1893. Copy print, 5x7. Negative, 5x7., 1893 September

 Item — Box Photo S-3, Item: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Davenport and Shamrock, Oklahoma and Perry, Stroud, and Chandler, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of cotton marketing, streets, railroad construction, the Oklahoma National Guard and tornado damage at Chandler.

Dates: 1893 September

Scene in Lawton, Oklahoma Territory the morning of the land opening, August 6, 1901., 1901

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1901

“Strippers” in line at Orlando, Oklahoma Territory, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

“Strippers waiting in line, Sept. 16, 1893” for opening of Cherokee Strip., 1893, Sept 16

 Item — Box Photo P-30, Item: 2038
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: 1893; Sept 16

The land run on Oklahoma’s Cherokee Strip with poem by Ruth Olive Angel, undated

 Item — Box Photo K-1, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kenneth Kaufman, his relatives, and one photograph of Hydro, Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

The nine registration booths at Orlando, Oklahoma Territory where 36,000 persons registered for the opening into the Cherokee Strip lands, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893

U.S. Land Office clerical force and U.S. Deputy Marshals, Perry, Oklahoma Territory, October 13, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 32
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.

Dates: 1893