Frontier and pioneer life
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
“A bachelor’s den.” The early-day dugout showing Wright Wiggins in front., Undated
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.
A couple sitting on a bench in front of a tree., undated
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 Unpublished finding aid available.
A frame house built onto a sod house., undated
A frontier farming family posed in front of a frame house., undated
A large frame house in Western Oklahoma., undated
A man standing between his original dugout and his present frame house on an Oklahoma farm., undated
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.
A young girl in a white dress arriving home from Sunday School., undated
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 Unpublished finding aid available.
An early-day homesteader and family gathering their peanut crop., Undated
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.
Bristol family on homestead in front of their log cabin, 3 miles west, ½ mile south of Lenore, Oklahoma. L to R: Loyd Bristol, Earnest Bristol, Mable Bristol Dickey and daughter Ethyl (Gore), Moses Bristol, Grandma Catherine Bristol, Lena Bristol (Hulett), child is Murl Burr, Minnie Bristol DeWald and Hal Dickey. (Lena Bristol Hulett is the mother of Ivan Hulett). Before 1903., Circa 1903
Black and white copy prints of Dewey County, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of the towns of Camargo, Taloga, Seiling and Putnam, along with images of farming, transportation, homesteads, businesses, and personalities.
Different view of Christmas Day party., undated
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.
Dina and her neighbor Mrs. Moore sitting on porch., undated
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.
Dr. Fred C. Brown, and early day Oklahoma general practitioner. He is on his horse and carries his medicine box with him. , undated
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.
Early-day Oklahoma homestead scene. Earl Stewart in front of his dugout., Undated
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.
Edna Gaither Collection
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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.
Edward Everett Dale Collection
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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.
Elva Groves Photograph Collection
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.
Enterprise or McCabe School, Jennie Cook, teacher., undated
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.
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
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.
Family sits in front yard., undated
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.
Four women and one man having a picnic in the woods., undated
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.
Four women sitting outside in yard of home., undated
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.
Frank Phillips Photograph Collection
Frontier frame house., undated
Henry Martyn Pomeroy Collection
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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.
H.Y. Ranch House, 1882, 1882
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.
Joe Todd Photograph Collection
Black and white original glass plate negatives and copy prints of Caddo, Hopi, Crow and Cheyenne Indians.
Man sitting in chair with little girl and dog sitting on the grass nearby., undated
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.
Man standing in yard. A dog is leaping on him while a young girl looks on. Same people from # 69., undated
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.
Mrs. Wilson and Miss Kingle standing outside with houses in the background., undated
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.
Noah Hamilton Rose Photograph Collection
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.