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Theaters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Broadway Theater, Elk City, undated

 Item — Box Photo L-5, item: 36
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Isaac C. Renfro's vineyard and grape crop, the mineral water health resorts and fountains at Sulphur, Oklahoma, along with scenes of the towns of Sulphur, Indian Territory, Clinton, Oklahoma, and Weatherford, Oklahoma, including street scenes, businesses, and parades. Mary Louise Ligon Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Cunningham-Dillion Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1667
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Vince Dillion photographs of the Miller Brothes 101 Wild West Show and Ranch. Included are scenes of cowboys, cowgirls, and Indian performers, along with photographs of Pawnee Bill's Old Town, Ponca City, and Fairfax Oklahoma.

Dates: 1910-1930

Hotel Royal, Guthrie, where the Second Territorial Legislature met in 1892.  Headquarters for C.N. Haskell, Bill Murray, and their crowd from the east side during meeting of the Constitutional Convention in 1906-1907; and of Governor Haskell and Democratic Committee 1908, 1909, 1910.  Entrance to the Brooks Opera House at the right, Oklahoma’s first real theatre which booked big stars; John Phillip Sousa Marine bands, St. Louis Symphony, Anna Dickenson in Hamlet. In the 1890’s, Lon Chaney was a stage hand at three dollars a week and slept on the stage “prop” couch.  An early automobile is parked on the street.  Guthrie, Oklahoma, circa 1928.  Original print, 8x10.  Photographer – Armantrout., ca. 1928

 Item — Box Photo W-2, item: 95
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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: ca. 1928

Interior of the Overholser Opera House, Oklahoma City, 1893., 1893

 Item — Box Photo P-31, Item: 2081
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: 1893

Lucile Oliver Stone Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1452
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of stage productions of the Tulsa Little Theater. The collection also includes a scene of the Pioneer Woman Monument at Ponca City, Oklahoma. Lucile Oliver Stone Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1913-1951

Overholser Opera House, Oklahoma City., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-31, Item: 2080
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

Picture of Aztec Theatre in Enid, Oklahoma with advertisement for Wells Fargo. An old stage coach stands in front., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-15, item: 264
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Black and white original and copy prints of Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), his family, firends, and Wild West Shows. Included are photographs of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody, along with a panorama of Gordon W. Lillie and Pawnee Indians travelling to President Herbert Hoover's inauguration. Gordon William Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

The producers of the play Black Jack Davy, Mr. R.M. Dickenson and Professor R.E. Holcombe. MISSING. , undated

 Item — Box Photo O-1, Item: 8
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Black and white original prints of the cast of a play adapted from Oskison's novel"Black Jack Davy" performed at the University of Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Theatrical broadside announcing Julian Kent in “Wild Bill,” 1876., 1876

 Item — Box Photo P-34a, Item: 3117
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: 1876

Young boy in a wagon advertising the Victor Theater. McAlester, OK, 1910., 1910

 Item — Box Photo P-47, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of McAlester, Oklahoma, including scenes of theaters, bands, and damage from a 1908 explosion at the Union railroad depot.

Dates: 1910