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Pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

A dugout home of Oklahoma settlers., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-30, Item: 1981
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

A farm couple, their child and dog, seated in front of a dugout with arbor., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-30, Item: 1982
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

A settler family camped in Western Oklahoma., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-29, Item: 1980
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

Abraham Boiler Allen (1819-1906). His wife Sarah Elizabeth Baggett Allen (1844-1940), and other family members, posed in front of their log home near (present day) Cleveland County, ca. 1890’s, ca. 1890s

 Item — Box M-23B , Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the Allen, Baggett, Barefoot, Bursell, Curren, Loving, Weatherford, Welch, and Wilkerson families. The collection also includes scenes of farming and a dust storm approaching Guymon, Oklahoma. Mary B. Maupin Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: ca. 1890s

Henry Martyn Pomeroy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1855
Scope and Contents

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Bookseller. A photocopy and typescript of a portion of the diary (1959-1960) kept by Henry M. Pomeroy during his overland journey to California, with descriptions of gold fields and of the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, the minutes of a vigilante committee near Omaha, Nebraska, and an account of a massacre in Oregon Territory.

Dates: 1859-1860

Ira Hillyard Baggett, his wife Josephine Elizabeth Baggett, their son Emmett Abraham, and Ira’s brother Monroe, seated outdoors by log home. Left to right: Ira, holding Emmett; Monroe; Josephine. 1894. (Ira and Monroe were the children of James Robert and, 1894

 Item — Box M-23B , Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the Allen, Baggett, Barefoot, Bursell, Curren, Loving, Weatherford, Welch, and Wilkerson families. The collection also includes scenes of farming and a dust storm approaching Guymon, Oklahoma. Mary B. Maupin Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1894

James Anderson Slover Collection

 Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1769
Scope and Contents

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A photocopy of the autobiography of James Slover, a missionary to the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War, and chaplain of the 1st Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, under Stand Watie. The diary includes an account of post-war difficulties in Arkansas due to a depressed economy, race relations and the reconstruction government, and of Slover's subsequent decision to move to California.

Dates: ca. 1907

One of the earliest homes in Greer County, OK., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-30, Item: 1983
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

Samuel Lee Allen (1863-1948), his wife, Medora Ann Reynolds Allen (1868-1905), and their children. They are posed in front of their home, built on land they acquired during the Run of ’89, southeast of present day Norman, OK. Back row, left to right: Fred, 1899

 Item — Box M-23B , Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the Allen, Baggett, Barefoot, Bursell, Curren, Loving, Weatherford, Welch, and Wilkerson families. The collection also includes scenes of farming and a dust storm approaching Guymon, Oklahoma. Mary B. Maupin Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1899

Samuel Murray Stover Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-777
Scope and Contents

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Diary of Stover recording his trek from Missouri to California in 1849; and a booklet of the same privately printed by Stover's descendants.

Dates: 1849

William Patrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1873
Scope and Contents

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Pioneer and immigrant. Photocopies of papers regarding Irish immigrant William Patrick, Including Patrick's diary (1857-1859) which details his trip to California and Colorado, his Civil War service records (1864-1865) and his marriage certificate (1860).

Dates: 1857-1865