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Cotton picking -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Elenore Wyskup Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1656
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Polish-Americans from central Oklahoma. The collection contains individual studio portraits, along with scenes of weddings, businesses, and farming.

Dates: 1903-1914

Hollis Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1132
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Hollis, Bethel, Dryden, Looney and Metcalf, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of businesses, postal service, agriculture, parades, schools, school children, and studio portraits from these communities during both the territorial and statehood periods.

Dates: 1878-1966

McAlester Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1639
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Italian Americans in Pittsburg County, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Included in the collection are photographs of their organizations, businesses, coal mining, sports, and cemeteries, along with photographs of the towns of McAlester, Indian Territory and Oklahoma state, Krebs, Indian Territory, and Hartshorne and Crowder, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1895-1935

Robert E. Cunningham Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1666
Scope and Contents

Black and white glass plate negatives from original prints, original glass plate negatives and copy prints of settlement scenes of Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Perry and Lawton, Oklahoma Territory. Included are scenes of numerous other Oklahoma towns, the oil industry, businesses, railroads, farming, the military, and cowboys, along with studio portraits of Afro-Americans. The collection also contains photographs of the Land Run of 1893.

Dates: 1880-1930