El Reno (Okla.) -- Description and travel

Black and white original prints of the Rough Riders Reunion and Rodeo at Oklahoma City in 1900. Also includes prints of El Reno during the land lottery, of Lucille Mulhall, and of the Medicine Lodge, Kansas bank robbers in 1894.

Black and white copy and original prints of the towns of Enid, Oklahoma City, Norman, El Reno, Tahlequah, and Guthrie, Oklahoma; Duncan and Navajoe, Oklahoma Territory; and Spiro and Okmulgee, Indian Territory. The collection also contains photographs of Havasupai, Pima, Papago, Navajo, Hopi, Ute, Kiowa, Apache, Eskimo, and Creek Indians, along with scenes of the University of Oklahoma and its students and faculty. Edward Everett Dale Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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.

Black and white copy prints and original glass plate negatives of Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Sioux, Wichita, and Pawnee Indians. Also includes scenes of the U.S. Army, Fort Reno, Darlington Indian Agency and Concho Indian School, Indian Territory.

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Collector. Correspondence between Ryan family members regarding family affairs, and their move to El Reno, Oklahoma Territory in 1902; newspapers (1939-1974) regarding declarations of war in 1939 and 1941, the American manned moon landing, and the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. Jesse Willis Ryan Photograph Collection also in repository.