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Chickasaw Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Ben Lewis (age 95) Chickasaw Indian for whom Wm. H. Murray won his greatest legal fee—$72,00. O.F. Mixson Studio, Wharton, Texas., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-42, item: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes scenes of Alfalfa Bill as governor, the 1907 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, the inauguration of Johnston Murray as Governor of Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation Senate, the Murray farm in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Also contains scenes of the Oklahoma National Guard, petroleum industry operations in Oklahoma, colonists of the Murray family in Bolivia, and scenes of the Murray Colony in Bolivia.

Dates: undated

Bloomfield Academy, Chickasaw Nation. Opened in 1852., 1852

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1852

Building at Collins Institute. Chickasaw Nation, I.T., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated

Building at Collins Institute. Chickasaw Nation, I.T., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated

C. B. Clark Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-3137
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Ku Klux Klan activities and meetings in Oklahoma and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The collection also includes photographs of drawings of Tishomingo, a Chickasaw war chief, and of John Coffee.

Dates: 1832-1925

Chickasaw Boarding at Sulphur (Educational system established 1851), undated

 Item — Box Photo M-18, item: 30
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: undated

Chickasaw Capital Building at Tishomingo, Chickasaw Nation, c. 1896. This was the third Chickasaw Capital Building., 1896

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1896

Chickasaw capitol bell., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated

Chickasaw Capitol or Council House at Tishomingo, Oklahoma., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-25, Item: 1516
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

Chickasaw Capitol, Tishomingo, and Chickasaw Nation Seal, undated

 Item — Box Photo M-18, item: 29
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: undated

Chickasaw freedman filing for allotments at Tishomingo, undated

 Item — Box Photo M-18, item: 28
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: undated

Chickasaw governor Byrd’s home near Stone Wall., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated

Chickasaw Orphan Home near Madill, OK., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated

Chickasaw Rock Academy at Wapanucka, I.T. A girl’s school established by the Chickasaw Nation in 1852., 1852

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: 1852

Commission of the Chickasaw and Choctaw that sold the old Choctaw Capital at Tushkahoma – May 1928.  1. Wm. Ward 2. A.L. Irvine 3. J.E. Tidwell 4. J.D. Fulton 5. J.F. Tomlin 6. D. Budris  7. J.B. Queen 8. W.H. Angell 9. J.G. Farr.  (Oversized Photo), 1928

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 44
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1928

Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1931
Scope and Contents

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Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Dates: 1967-1972

Douglas H. Johnston, Jr. holding violin in studio portrait., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 46
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: undated

Edward Bryant Johnson Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-320
Scope and Contents

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Banker and rancher. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records and related papers concerning the banking, ranching and oil interests of Edward Johnson, a Chickasaw Indian businessman and banker in Norman, Oklahoma. Edward Bryant Johnson Photograph Collection also in repository.

(Note: for other objects previously listed in Box 19, see Outsized boxes at end of collection. These were moved August 12, 2011.)

Dates: 1882-1929

Edward Everett Dale Collection

 Collection — Drawer 8607
Identifier: WHC-M-146
Scope and Contents

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Historian. Correspondence, student term papers, theses and dissertations, and personal research materials regarding the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, the state of Oklahoma, Indians of North America and the American Southwest; teaching materials used by Dale at Harvard and the University of Oklahoma; administrative and other files of the Works Progress Administration's Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; U.S. Government documents issued by various cabinet-level departments and agencies, including Agriculture and Interior; and a portion of the University of Oklahoma Persidential papers of James Shannon Buchanan and Stratton D. Brooks. Edward Everett Dale Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1865-1948

Estelle Chisholm Ward, with horse, and Llewellyn “Ludie” Johnston with bicycle—1892., 1892

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1892

Gertrude Thomas, one-half Chickasaw, wearing buckskin dress with fringe and decorated with elk teeth.  Studio portrait.  Original print, 5x7.  Photographer’s board: Irwin, Chickasha, I.T., Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-2A, item: 137
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.

Dates: Undated

Gov. Douglas H. Johnston’s home at Emet, Chickasaw Nation. (L to R) Ground: Jess Hearrell (brother of Mrs. W.H. Murray), “Ludie” Johnston, and C.W. Walker. Porch: Old African American Jim, unidentified man in chair, Gov. Douglas H. Johnston, Juanita Johns, 1898

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1898

Group portrait (L to R) Back row: Dolly Franklin, Jenny Yarbarough, Estelle Chisholm Ward, Bessie Welch, Nettie Burris, Lizzie Saffron. Front row: Julie Chisholm, Dosia Kemp, “Ludie” Johnston, Mamie Harris (daughter of Gov. R.M. Harris), Laura Moberly. Bl, 1893

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1893

Group Portrait (L to R) Back row: (standing) Dolly Franklin, Laura Morberly, Mamie Harris (daughter of Gov. R.M. Harris), Susie Cooper, Mr. E.B. Henshaw. Front row: (seated) Lula White (granddaughter of Gov. Cyrus Harris), Jenny Yarborough, Teddie Mead, M, 1892

 Item — Box Photo L-19, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1892

Group portrait of the members of the last Chickasaw Legislature—1905-06. (Oversized photo), 1905-1906

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1905-1906

Group portrait of the Senate and officers of the Chickasaw Legislature – 1905-1096. (L to R) Lower row: G.W. Young, James McCurtain, M.V. Cheadle (pres.), Dan Collins, O.D. White (sec.), Martin Newberry, Henry Grinslade, Dave Steeley. Upper row: Geo. Colb, 1905-1906

 Item — Oversize box Photo Room 9a, Item: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. Included are scenes of the Bloomfield Academy, the Chickasaw Nation capitol building, officials of the Chickasaw tribal government, and Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson. The collection also contains photographs of Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, Elmer Thomas, William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and Saladin Watie.

Dates: 1905-1906

Hampton Tucker Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-622
Scope and Contents

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Lawyer. Legal files, correspondence, coal mining reports (1899-1916), and related papers concerning Tucker's service as mining trustee for the Choctaw Nation (1912-1918), for the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations (1929-1949), and as national attorney for the Choctaw Nation (1924-1929).

Dates: 1895-1945

Harley Institute. Chickasaw Indian School. Tishomingo, I.T., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated

Horace Pratt Collection

 Collection — Box P-10
Identifier: WHC-M-1860
Scope and Contents

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Indian chief. Typescripts of two conscription acts (1864) by the Chickasaw Nation legislature organizing Chickasaw troops for Confederate service.

Dates: 1864

Joshua Harley tombstone near Tishomingo, I.T., undated

 Item — Box Photo I-1A, item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the Male and Female Cherokee Seminaries, the Chilocco Indian School, the Chickasaw Orphanage, Rock Academy, Collins Institute, and the Harley Institute.

Dates: undated