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Sorghum industry -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Birtie and Marvin Whitlow and Daniel and Steve Bessinger making sorghum. Near Newalla, Oklahoma, circa 1912. Donor: Mrs. Leon MacDonald, Jr., circa 1912

 Item — Box Photo S-24, item: 77
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Hazel, Sayre, Shawnee, Romulus, and Newalla, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of schools, businesses, farming, railroads, sawmills and mining.

Dates: circa 1912
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1124, Shawnee Public Library Photograph Collection

Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1133
Scope and Contents 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: 1870-1930
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

Little Audie, Carl, Esther, Birtie, Marvin, Papa and Steve making sorghum. Near Newalla, Oklahoma, circa 1912. Donor: Mrs. Leon MacDonald, Jr., circa 1912

 Item — Box Photo S-24, item: 76
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Hazel, Sayre, Shawnee, Romulus, and Newalla, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of schools, businesses, farming, railroads, sawmills and mining.

Dates: circa 1912
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1124, Shawnee Public Library Photograph Collection

Noah Wheeler Homestead. Native gypsum stone house consisting of one room and sorghum mill powered by horses. Many neighbors com here to process their came into sorghum; it became a social occasion as well as work. They knew what it was like to be poor, sometimes living on sand hill plums, rabbis and gravy. Mrs. Ted Adkins was one of their ten children. One mile east of the junction of Highway 64 with Highway 34 near the Cimarron River, Woods Co, OK. Circa 1910., circa 1910

 Item — Box Photo B-31, item: 56
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Buffalo, Charleston, Selman, Augusta, Fargo, Dacoma, Wakita, Brule and Doby Springs, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of businesses, families, farming, ranching, sod houses, schools and school children in and around these Oklahoma communities.

Dates: circa 1910
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-831, Buffalo (Oklahoma) Museum Photograph Collection

Shawnee Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1124
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Hazel, Sayre, Shawnee, Romulus, and Newalla, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of schools, businesses, farming, railroads, sawmills and mining.

Dates: 1896-1928
Found in: Western History Collections / Shawnee Public Library Photograph Collection
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