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Musical instruments

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

A quartet of music players. Includes three women and one man, each holding their respective instrument., Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-6A, item: 152
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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 Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Band from Chilocco Indian School at the Cheyenne Fair, 1912. No Neg., 1912

 Item — Box Photo M-10, Item: 54
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Back and white original and copy prints of Watonga, Oklahoma, along with scenes of Cheyenne, Arapaho, Caddo and Creek Indians. William Houston Munger Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1912

Band members holding instruments, standing outdoors. Small crowd in background, one man on a bicycle, people in horse drawn carriages. North McAlester, ca. 1904., circa 1904

 Item — Box Photo M-30, item: 43
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: circa 1904

Calliope, undated

 Item — Box Photo L-16, item: 397
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

“Crazy Ray” Choisser, America’s calliope King, Cole Brothers Clyde Beatty Circus. Los Angeles., undated

 Item — Box Photo L-14A, item: 259
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Frank and Mamie Brezny on the porch of Uncle Ernest Brezny’s house. He is playing a fiddle, and she is playing an accordion. Prague, Oklahoma, 1928., 1928

 Item — Box Photo N-6, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Czech Americans from the towns of Bison, Goltry, Banner and Prague, Oklahoma. The collection includes scenes of weddings, schools, churches, and farming.

Dates: 1928

Garber Concert Band of 19 pieces, Undated

 Item — Box Photo P-40, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Garber, Oklahoma Territory, including scenes of farming, businesses, oil wells, bands and schools.

Dates: Undated

Group of men with false faces with musical instruments as in a band, undated

 Item — Box Photo R-7, item: 117
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of oil drilling activities in Osage County, Oklahoma Territory, and scenes of the towns of Ramona, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Claremore, Webbers Falls, Dewey, Tulsa, Miami, Bartlesville, Garvin, Avant, and Skiatook, Oklahoma. The collection also contains scenes of the U.S. Army, railroads, busineses, and schools. William B. Randall Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Rather small orchestra of eleven people, including one woman. Each is holding their respective instrument, except for the woman., Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-6A, item: 145
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: Undated

Seminole Capital Band. Early-day men’s concert band in their rehearsal room. Circa 1920’s. 1 copy. Negative 5x7., circa 1920s

 Item — Box Photo S-26, item: 57
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Seminole Indians, railroads, oil fields, schools, cotton gins, along with scenes of Weber City, Maud, Seminole, and Wewoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

Dates: circa 1920s

Seminole Capital Boy’s Ban, before 1907. Studio portrait. 2 copies. Negative 5x7., before 1907

 Item — Box Photo S-26, item: 56
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Seminole Indians, railroads, oil fields, schools, cotton gins, along with scenes of Weber City, Maud, Seminole, and Wewoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

Dates: before 1907

Silva and Michela families posed, outdoors at a picnic. One man holds an accordion. Alderson, Oklahoma, ca. 1914., circa 1914

 Item — Box Photo M-30, item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: circa 1914

Sixette composed of slide trombone, bass horn, alto horn, guitar, mandolin, and clarinet, Undated

 Item — Box Photo P-40, Item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Garber, Oklahoma Territory, including scenes of farming, businesses, oil wells, bands and schools.

Dates: Undated

Soldiers of the Spanish American War with musical instruments and guns. Philippines, 1898., 1898

 Item — Box Photo M-11, item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of military units and barracks in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: 1898

The Christopher Columbus Society’s Italian Band from Krebs. Instruments include clarinet, trumpets, trombone, French horn, tubas, drums. 1905., 1905

 Item — Box Photo M-30, item: 42
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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: 1905

The Gerlach Bank, Woodward. Carnival band standing in front., Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-4, item: 179
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: Undated

Wewoka Concert Band. This early men’s concert band has many of the same band members as in #53. Studio portrait. 1 copy. Negative 5x7., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-26, item: 54
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Seminole Indians, railroads, oil fields, schools, cotton gins, along with scenes of Weber City, Maud, Seminole, and Wewoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Woman conducting two girls playing instruments., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 64
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints and cyanotypes from a photograph album documenting an family’s everyday life and travels in the American West, circa 1898-1907. The images show children and adults at various tourist destinations in the areas of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, including Santo Domingo Pueblo (Kewa Pueblo), Petrified Forest National Park, and Garden of the Gods. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated