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Frontier and pioneer life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

“A bachelor’s den.” The early-day dugout showing Wright Wiggins in front., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-13, item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Mangum, Oklahoma Territory and State; and Greer County, Texas and Oklahoma Territory. also included are scenes of the range cattle industry, businesses, schools, and farming.

Dates: Undated

A couple sitting on a bench in front of a tree., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 156
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 Unpublished finding aid available.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

A frame house built onto a sod house., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-33, Item: 2291
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 frontier farming family posed in front of a frame house., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-33, Item: 2288
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 large frame house in Western Oklahoma., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-33, Item: 2289
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 man standing between his original dugout and his present frame house on an Oklahoma farm., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-6A, item: 79
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

A young girl in a white dress arriving home from Sunday School., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 73
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

An early-day homesteader and family gathering their peanut crop., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-13, item: 44
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Mangum, Oklahoma Territory and State; and Greer County, Texas and Oklahoma Territory. also included are scenes of the range cattle industry, businesses, schools, and farming.

Dates: Undated

Different view of Christmas Day party., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 84
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

Dina and her neighbor Mrs. Moore sitting on porch., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 86
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

Dr. Fred C. Brown, and early day Oklahoma general practitioner. He is on his horse and carries his medicine box with him. , undated

 Item — Box Photo W-8, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Fairview, Oklahoma Territory. Included are scenes of parades, businesses, and a fair. Andrew Beattie Walker Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Early-day Oklahoma homestead scene. Earl Stewart in front of his dugout., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-13, item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Mangum, Oklahoma Territory and State; and Greer County, Texas and Oklahoma Territory. also included are scenes of the range cattle industry, businesses, schools, and farming.

Dates: Undated

Edna Gaither Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-212
Scope and Contents

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Pamphlets and clippings on Missouri-Kansas-Arkansas-Oklahoma border history, concerning Indians (Ottawas, Poncas, Senecas, Cayugas and Quapaws), industries, monuments and landmarks, the Civil War on the border, and famous personalities such as George Washington Carver and Belle Starr.

Dates: 1860-1956

Edward Everett Dale Collection

 Collection — Drawer 8607
Identifier: WHC-M-146
Scope and Contents

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Historian. Correspondence, student term papers, theses and dissertations, and personal research materials regarding the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, the state of Oklahoma, Indians of North America and the American Southwest; teaching materials used by Dale at Harvard and the University of Oklahoma; administrative and other files of the Works Progress Administration's Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; U.S. Government documents issued by various cabinet-level departments and agencies, including Agriculture and Interior; and a portion of the University of Oklahoma Persidential papers of James Shannon Buchanan and Stratton D. Brooks. Edward Everett Dale Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1865-1948

Elva Groves Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-2225
Scope and Contents

Black and white prints, mostly of cowboys and cattle, farms and farmers, railroad depots, and rolling stock, in and around Wray, Colorado. The collection also includes photographs of Geronimo, of a bridge across the Brazos River that had been damaged by stampeding cattle, and of the interior of a mine near Cripple Creek, Colorado.

Dates: 1886-1919

Enterprise or McCabe School, Jennie Cook, teacher., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-7A, item: 139
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory and state, and scenes of farming, railroad construction, schools and businesses. Also includes scenes of Caddo, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians. Tonkawa Public Library Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Family and horses standing outside their home near Grandfield, Oklahoma, early 1900s. This home, with porches around three sides, was typical of this area, in the early 1900s, at the time of the Big Pasture Opening. The cellar was built after the Snyder tornado. When photographers came by, families posed with all their possessions, circa 1900

 Item — Box Photo M-31, Item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Moore and Snyder, Oklahoma Territory; Norman, Cement, Welch, Frederick, Stroud, Davidson, Vinita, Tipton, Peek, Ioland, Damon, and Elmore City, Oklahoma; and Coweta, Indian Territory. Included are scenes of businesses, the oil industry, railroads, parades, the University of Oklahoma, football, cotton marketing, and fire fighters.

Dates: circa 1900

Family sits in front yard., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 71
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

Four women and one man having a picnic in the woods., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 169
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

Four women sitting outside in yard of home., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 78
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

Frank Phillips Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1133
Scope and Contents 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: 1870-1930

Frontier frame house., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-33, Item: 2292
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

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

H.Y. Ranch House, 1882, 1882

 Item — Box Photo T-13, item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Mangum, Oklahoma Territory and State; and Greer County, Texas and Oklahoma Territory. also included are scenes of the range cattle industry, businesses, schools, and farming.

Dates: 1882

Joe Todd Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1159
Scope and Contents

Black and white original glass plate negatives and copy prints of Caddo, Hopi, Crow and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: 1982

Man sitting in chair with little girl and dog sitting on the grass nearby., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 69
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

Man standing in yard.  A dog is leaping on him while a young girl looks on.  Same people from # 69., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 70
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

Mrs. Wilson and Miss Kingle standing outside with houses in the background., undated

 Item — Box Photo T-38, Item: 91
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

Noah Hamilton Rose Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1109
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints from the original nitrate negatives of early Texas history, Texas Rangers, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, and wild west shows. Also included are photographs of ranchers, cattlemen and cowboys of the Southwest, the U.S. Army during the Apache campaigns, the Little Big Horn battlefield and the Indian Wars of 1876 and 1890-1891, along with churches, cathedrals, and missions of Texas, California and Arizona. The collection also contains images of Comanche, Sioux, Shoshoni, Pueblo, Creek, Chippewa, Maricopa, Arapaho, Papago, Kickapoo, Yuma, Modoc, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Kiowa, Navajo, Apache, and Crow Indians. Prominent western personalities include Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, Sitting Bull, Frank and Jesse James, Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, the Daltons and Youngers, Judge Roy Bean, George A. Custer, California Joe, the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy, and the Earp brothers.

Dates: 1836-1940