Railroad stations

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Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma and Norman, Oklahoma.

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Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives, taken by Andrew Alexander Forbes. Includes scenes of the range cattle industry in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, sodhouses, railroad construction, the United States Army, buffalo, andalso of Sac and Fox and Cheyenne Indians.

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...

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Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

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Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

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Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

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Black and white original and copy prints of the Foress B. Lillie family and Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory and state. The collection includes street scenes, transportation, businesses, outlaws, and oilwells, as well as scenes of places, cities and towns in California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Foress B. Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Black-and-white copy prints of railroad depots at Pauls Valley and Byars, Indian Territory; Wanette, Newkirk, Tecumseh, Shawnee, Meeker, Payson, Sparks, Chuckaho, Kendrick, Avery, Cushing, Yale, Quay, Maramec, Skedee, Ralston, Fairfax, Remington, Kaw, and Uncas, Oklahoma Territory; and Macomb, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of locomotives, railroad bridges and railroad yards.

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Black and white original prints and panoramas of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. The collection includes scenes of Main Street, businesses, the railroad depot, and a parade for the returning World War I servicemen of Garvin County, Oklahoma.

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Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black and white copy and original prints of railroads in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The collection also contains scenes of Fort Smith and Western Railroad locomotives and rolling stock.

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)Corporate records arranged in five functional sub-groups of executive files; legal files; engineering records; property accounting; and real estate and industrial development records. Record series of the executive sub-group include minutes (1905-1915, 1947-1975); annual reports (1884-1908, 1915-1932, 1941, 1948-1975); subject files (1900-1984); monthly letters to the Board of Directors (1921-1972); correspondence (1913-1976); corporate files of associated railroads (1910-1975); liquidation files (1968-1984); and stock ledgers (1853-1864; 1906-1933). In the legal sub-group are: subject files (ca. 1925-1979); correspondence (1969-1976); contracts (1900-1910, 1930, 1950-1960); merger files-Union Pacific (1963-1975); merger files-other railroads (1920-1980); litigation files (1830-1960); legislation files-state level (1908-1920); and...

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Black and white original prints of the towns of Riverton (Sayre), El Reno, and Doxey, Oklahoma Territory. Also included are photographs of the Benton family, businesses, railroads, and University of Oklahoma students. Joseph Benton Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Black-and-white copy prints of railroad depots at Pauls Valley and Byars, Indian Territory; Wanette, Newkirk, Tecumseh, Shawnee, Meeker, Payson, Sparks, Chuckaho, Kendrick, Avery, Cushing, Yale, Quay, Maramec, Skedee, Ralston, Fairfax, Remington, Kaw, and Uncas, Oklahoma Territory; and Macomb, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of locomotives, railroad bridges and railroad yards.

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Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives of the settlement of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes images of street scenes, businesses, building construction, Guthrie as a tent city, railroads, and the United States military at Guthrie.

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Black-and-white copy prints of railroad depots at Pauls Valley and Byars, Indian Territory; Wanette, Newkirk, Tecumseh, Shawnee, Meeker, Payson, Sparks, Chuckaho, Kendrick, Avery, Cushing, Yale, Quay, Maramec, Skedee, Ralston, Fairfax, Remington, Kaw, and Uncas, Oklahoma Territory; and Macomb, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of locomotives, railroad bridges and railroad yards.

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Black-and-white copy prints of railroad depots at Pauls Valley and Byars, Indian Territory; Wanette, Newkirk, Tecumseh, Shawnee, Meeker, Payson, Sparks, Chuckaho, Kendrick, Avery, Cushing, Yale, Quay, Maramec, Skedee, Ralston, Fairfax, Remington, Kaw, and Uncas, Oklahoma Territory; and Macomb, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of locomotives, railroad bridges and railroad yards.

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Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Black and white original and copy prints of the Foress B. Lillie family and Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory and state. The collection includes street scenes, transportation, businesses, outlaws, and oilwells, as well as scenes of places, cities and towns in California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Foress B. Lillie Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives of the settlement of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes images of street scenes, businesses, building construction, Guthrie as a tent city, railroads, and the United States military at Guthrie.

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Black-and-white copy prints of railroad depots at Pauls Valley and Byars, Indian Territory; Wanette, Newkirk, Tecumseh, Shawnee, Meeker, Payson, Sparks, Chuckaho, Kendrick, Avery, Cushing, Yale, Quay, Maramec, Skedee, Ralston, Fairfax, Remington, Kaw, and Uncas, Oklahoma Territory; and Macomb, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of locomotives, railroad bridges and railroad yards.

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Black-and-white original and copy prints of train depots in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, and engines from the Midland Valley Railroad Company and from the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company. Also included are photographs of railroad employees, railcars, work crews, and train wrecks. Unpublished finding aid available.

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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.

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Black and white copy prints of Norman and Cheyenne, Oklahoma Territory and state. Also photographs of Drumright and Broken Bow, Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma, cowboys, businesses, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians.

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Black-and-white original and copy prints of train depots in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, and engines from the Midland Valley Railroad Company and from the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company. Also included are photographs of railroad employees, railcars, work crews, and train wrecks. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black and white copy prints of Dustin, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including scenes of businesses, railroads, farming, and cotton gins. The collection also contains a scene of Cromwell, Oklahoma and a photograph of Creek Indians.

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Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives of the settlement of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes images of street scenes, businesses, building construction, Guthrie as a tent city, railroads, and the United States military at Guthrie.