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Comanche Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 306 Collections and/or Records:

A large group of Comanche Native Americans being baptized in a river by Preacher Given. Note the horses in the background., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 115E
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

A large group of Native Americans in traditional dress. Includes negative., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of a group of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians standing outside a building in Lawton, Oklahoma. Some of the more prominent individuals pictured are Chief Lonewolf (Kiowa), Herman Asenap (Comanche), Lewis Ware (Kiowa), and Apache Ben (Apache).

Dates: undated

A young Comanche girl on a paint. No Neg., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-10, Item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Back and white original and copy prints of Watonga, Oklahoma, along with scenes of Cheyenne, Arapaho, Caddo and Creek Indians. William Houston Munger Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

A young Comanche Native American girl with a baby., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 66
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

Ah-chee-vee-ah, 15 year old Comanche girl., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-10, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians. Includes Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the Indian School at Fort Sill, Indian Territory.

Dates: Undated

Ahrone, Mr. & Mrs. Otto Wells, & Mr. & Mrs. John White Man., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-15, Item: 840
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: undated

Alex Mathews and his son taken at a ceremonial pow-wow. Alex is member of the Pawnee Tribe, married to a Comanche girl, Lorraine Cooscwoon., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

An elderly Comanche man standing near horses., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-13, Item: 692
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: undated

An older Comanche Native American woman watching over four Comanche Native American children., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 65
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

An older Comanche Native American woman watching over four young Comanche Native American children., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 68
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

An older white woman with seven Comanche Native American children and a Comanche Native American woman. There is a wagon and a house in the background., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 113E
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

An unidentified elderly Comanche couple. OK., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-13, Item: 726
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: undated

An older Comanche Native American woman with a young girl standing by a meeting area and in front of a house., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 79
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

An older Comanche Native American woman with a young girl standing in front of a wagon sitting behind a house., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-7, item: 78
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Comanche Indians, Red Stone Baptist Mission, Fort Sill Indian School, and members of the Given family. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

Appaetone, Kiowa Chief, & Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief at a council, July 1900., 1900, Jul

 Item — Box Photo P-23, Item: 1418
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: 1900; Jul

Ar-ko, Captain of Comanche Indian police. Wearing earrings, blanket, leggings, moccasins, and feathered accoutrements. Original. Purcell, Indian Territory., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-17, item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Apache, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Oto, and Wichita Indians taken at the Lenny and Sawyers Studio in Purcell, Indian Territory.

Dates: undated

At-tock-wie (Lone Lodge), a Comanche Indian, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Bird Chief (Milky Way, Esa-habet, Asa-havey), Comanche, was known as “Friend of Everybody” and was contact between whites and Indians regarding captives. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians.

Dates: 1869-1874

Black and white steel engraving of “Emigrants Attacked by the Comanches.” (1853). Depicts war party attacking a group of covered wagons. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 93
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of feats of horsemanship near the great Comanche village in Texas. A first edition plate. (1841). By G. Catlin from Catlin’s Letter and Notes.  , 1841

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 92
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1841

Black Coal., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-37, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Northern Arapaho chief Black Coal, a pony, and an oil derrick in Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

Boys or students at Cache Creek Mission, West of Apache, Oklahoma. Negative, 5x7, Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Boys or students Cache Creek Mission, West of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Bryan W. Lovelace Collection

 Collection — Box L-27
Identifier: WHC-M-365
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

A journal kept by Joseph R. Smith of New York, recording his experiences while on a surveying expedition through Indian Territory. Smith describes the expedition's encounters with hostile Comanches, friendly Osages, severe weather and insect hordes. Also included in this collection are photocopies of a legislative document (1858) and a published article (1850), both regarding Creek Nation boundaries.

Dates: 1850-1858

Burgess Looking Glass, Comanche, wearing fringed buckskin clothing, breechcloth, and fur-wrapped braids. Posed on a tree stump., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-13, Item: 700
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: undated

Camp of Quanah Parker., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-22, Item: 1285
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: undated

Captain Ahko, Comanche., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-18, Item: 999
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: undated

Cassanova, a Comanche., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-34a, Item: 3166
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: undated

Chaddle Kaungky or Black Goose. No negative, undated

 Item — Item Photo H-19, item: 93
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Hume family, Anadarko, Indian Territory and the University of Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Mohave, Sioux, Comanche and Apache Indians. Carlton Ross Hume Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Chief Wild Horse in war bonnet, Comanche, portrait., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-86, item: 188
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated