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Comanche Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 306 Collections and/or Records:

Comanche Indians and Mexicans form the Post Oak Mission. Posed., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-8, item: 32
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Quanah Parker and Comanche Indians, the Post Oak Cemetery, and a mission in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Also included are baptismal scenes and a meeting place of the Choctaw council.

Dates: undated

Comanche Indians at the Comanche County Fair. Lawton, Oklahoma. Bates Studio., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-31, item: 703
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: undated

Comanche Indians butchering a cow near Anadarko, Oklahoma. 1908. Photographer- Irwin, Chickasha, I. T., 1908

 Item — Box Photo D-23, Item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Dewey County, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of the towns of Camargo, Taloga, Seiling and Putnam, along with images of farming, transportation, homesteads, businesses, and personalities.

Dates: 1908

Comanche Indians in a parade., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Comanche Indians visiting the celebration on Mexican Independence. Anadarko (Okla.) August 16, 1899., 1899, Aug 16

 Item — Box Photo P-9, Item: 456
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; Aug 16

Comanche Jack., undated

 Item — Box Photo H-4, item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Sac and Fox, Ponca, Comanche, Oto, and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: undated

Comanche lady and her two children taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Lady is Choppy Poatpybitty. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 13
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

Comanche lady named Pomo-no-vah-ehy, wife of Henry Wallace at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Pomo-no-vah-ehy means “bending over while picking something.”, Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 16
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

Comanche man and child named Major Baldwin. Anadarko (Okla.) March 25, 1899. [Missing.], 1899, Mar 25

 Item — Box Photo P-10, Item: 520
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; Mar 25

Comanche man, Mr. Yellowfish, his wife and child. Photo taken at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 11
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

Comanche man. OK., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-15, Item: 815
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

Comanche man, posed., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-6A, item: 81
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Comanche man, seated in a wicker chair. He is holding a feathered fan., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-6A, item: 95
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Comanche man with bow and arrows in fur case, carrying 2 beaded pouches. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7. Compare with #53., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 34
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

Comanche man seated in a chair., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-6A, item: 86
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Comanche Medicine Man and tepee., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-31, item: 705
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: undated

Comanche men on horseback, behind dancers. Craterville Park, late 1920s., Circa 1920

 Item — Box Photo R-13A, item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the All Indian Fair held at Craterville Park, Oklahoma, in the Wichita Mountains. The prints include those of Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians in native costumes.

Dates: Circa 1920

Comanche men on horseback, late 1920s., Circa 1920

 Item — Box Photo R-13A, item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the All Indian Fair held at Craterville Park, Oklahoma, in the Wichita Mountains. The prints include those of Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians in native costumes.

Dates: Circa 1920

Comanche men on horseback, Craterville Park, late 1920s., Circa 1920

 Item — Box Photo R-13A, item: 33
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the All Indian Fair held at Craterville Park, Oklahoma, in the Wichita Mountains. The prints include those of Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians in native costumes.

Dates: Circa 1920

Comanche men, one is Oran., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-17, Item: 962
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

Comanche squaw, 85 years of age, horseback, undated

 Item — Box Photo L-1, item: 10a
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of railroads and Lawton, Oklahoma Territory businesses.

Dates: undated

Comanche tepee made of striped cloth with family in front. U.S. Signal Corp., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-108, item: 2149
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

Comanche trio., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-18, Item: 1002
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

Comanche woman and two girls., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-8, item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Quanah Parker and Comanche Indians, the Post Oak Cemetery, and a mission in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Also included are baptismal scenes and a meeting place of the Choctaw council.

Dates: undated

Comanche woman holding her great granddaughter in a cradle. Anadarko (Okla.) 1900., 1900

 Item — Box Photo P-13, Item: 674
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

Comanche woman seated in a chair., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-6A, item: 97
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Comanche woman, wearing silver bracelets. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 38
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

Comanche woman with her laughing baby in a cradle., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-23, Item: 1416
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

Comanche women on horseback, Craterville Park, late 1920s., Circa 1920

 Item — Box Photo R-13A, item: 38
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the All Indian Fair held at Craterville Park, Oklahoma, in the Wichita Mountains. The prints include those of Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians in native costumes.

Dates: Circa 1920

Comanches going to church, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 20
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