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Broken Bow (Okla.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Crowd at sale of town lot in Broken Bow. The McClure house and two lots sold for $850. The owners were offered $1,000 the next day Broken Bow, Oklahoma., undated

 Item — Box Photo N-7, Item: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: undated

First barber shop and tailor shop in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.  Four men on porch of barber shop – two in bow ties and white jackets, one wearing sleeve protectors., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-29, item: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of scenes in McCurtain County, Oklahoma including logging, railroad construction, businesses, and agriculture. The collection contains prints of the towns of Haworth, Idabel, Wright City, Broken Bow, Smithville, Eagletown, and Garvin, Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

First lumber/stone mill in Broken Bow, built by Choctaw Lumber Co., which became Dierks Forest Inc. (later bought by Weyerhauser) Broken Bow, Oklahoma., undated

 Item — Box Photo N-7, Item: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: undated

First train to use the new Broken Bow depot. Crowd of people is in the station. Broken Bow, Oklahoma, 1911, 1911

 Item — Box Photo N-7, Item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1911

Jail and whipping tree six miles east of Broken Bow.  Build in 1884 in Eagletown, county seat of Eagle Country, Choctaw Nation.  Served until end of tribal government in 1906.  Photo taken in Eagletown in the 1920s., 1920's

 Item — Box Photo M-29, item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of scenes in McCurtain County, Oklahoma including logging, railroad construction, businesses, and agriculture. The collection contains prints of the towns of Haworth, Idabel, Wright City, Broken Bow, Smithville, Eagletown, and Garvin, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1920's

The Choctaw Lumber Co. and Sawmill. Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. July 22, 1916. Photo – J. Cullen., 1916 July 22

 Item — Box Photo W-28, item: 418
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1916 July 22