Oklahoma

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 Unpublished finding aid available.

U.S. Ambassador. Papers and artifacts of George Crews McGhee, who served as 8th U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, and 4th U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. McGhee’s career achievements include being a Rhodes Scholar, oil entrepreneur, naval officer, diplomat, philanthropist, and author. The papers contain his business correspondence (1950-2002), ambassadorial papers (1948-1968), personal correspondence (1935-2002), writings and speeches (1928-2005), financial records (1947-1978), and family history materials (1980-2002). The collection also contains photographs, slides, scrapbooks, and memorabilia documenting the McGhee family’s life and world travels; as well as Mesoamerican artifacts collected primarily by McGhee’s father-in-law, Everette Lee DeGolyer, and by Ambassador and Mrs. McGhee. The bulk of the papers (1937-1998) relate to Ambassador McGhee’s business enterprises and to his service to the country as a member of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of State.

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.

Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

Black-and-white and color postcards of scenes throughout the United States and abroad. Many of the postcards are from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, showing Cherokee, Hopi, Navajo, Pawnee, and Pueblo Indians. Other states represented in the collection are Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Areas outside the United States include St. Lawrence, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, Canada; Rotterdam, Holland; Stockholm, Sweden; Tiberias, Israel; and Luxembourg. Subjects include national parks, ghost towns, schools, agricultural activities, churches, the petroleum industry, and Amish children and adults. Unpublished finding aid available.

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Black and white copy prints of the Land Run of 1889, and scenes of Kingfisher, Oklahoma Territory.

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

Black and white original and copy prints of Patrick Jay Hurley's career as United States Assistant Secretary of War and Secretary of War, special presidential representative to the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, and United States Ambassador to China during World War II. The collection contains scenes of Hurley with Joseph W. Stilwell, Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung, Chiang Kai-shek, Douglas MacArthur, Claire Lee Chennault, and Herbert Hoover. Also included are photographs of Secretary of War Hurley's inspection tours of United States military installations, suppression of the Bonus Army riots in 1932, Hurley with Japanese military representatives, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amon Carter, Will Rogers, Chester Nimitz, Jonathan Wainwright, Henry Stimson, William Halsey, Bacone College and the towns of McAlester, Oklahoma and Phillips, Indian Territory. Patrick J. Hurley Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Black-and-white original and copy prints of Oklahoma labor unions and workers in trades such as bricklaying, carpentry, and transportation. The collection also includes photographs of union parade floats, labor strikes, and union social functions. Also notable are photographs of the Socialist Party encampment in Oklahoma around 1910. Unpublished finding aid available.

Architect. The collection contains class notebooks, architectural drawings, and artifacts (1954-1963) produced by Melvin Shivvers while he was a student in the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture. The collection also contains sepia and blueline prints from glass slides depicting examples of Renaissance architecture that were used for study by students.

Black-and-white original and copy prints of Oklahoma labor unions and workers in trades such as bricklaying, carpentry, and transportation. The collection also includes photographs of union parade floats, labor strikes, and union social functions. Also notable are photographs of the Socialist Party encampment in Oklahoma around 1910. Unpublished finding aid available.

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Black and white original prints of newspapeman Lea Murray Nichols. The collection also contains a scene of an oil well near Tulsa, Indian Territory. Lea Murray Nichols Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Black and white copy and original prints of Lugert, Oklahoma and scenes of the W.C. Austin Reclamation and Irrigation Project, which includes the construction of Altus Lake and Dam.

Black-and-white and color postcards of scenes throughout the United States and abroad. Many of the postcards are from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, showing Cherokee, Hopi, Navajo, Pawnee, and Pueblo Indians. Other states represented in the collection are Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Areas outside the United States include St. Lawrence, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, Canada; Rotterdam, Holland; Stockholm, Sweden; Tiberias, Israel; and Luxembourg. Subjects include national parks, ghost towns, schools, agricultural activities, churches, the petroleum industry, and Amish children and adults. Unpublished finding aid available.

Black-and-white and color postcards of scenes throughout the United States and abroad. Many of the postcards are from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, showing Cherokee, Hopi, Navajo, Pawnee, and Pueblo Indians. Other states represented in the collection are Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Areas outside the United States include St. Lawrence, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, Canada; Rotterdam, Holland; Stockholm, Sweden; Tiberias, Israel; and Luxembourg. Subjects include national parks, ghost towns, schools, agricultural activities, churches, the petroleum industry, and Amish children and adults. Unpublished finding aid available.

Black-and-white and color postcards of scenes throughout the United States and abroad. Many of the postcards are from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, showing Cherokee, Hopi, Navajo, Pawnee, and Pueblo Indians. Other states represented in the collection are Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Areas outside the United States include St. Lawrence, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, Canada; Rotterdam, Holland; Stockholm, Sweden; Tiberias, Israel; and Luxembourg. Subjects include national parks, ghost towns, schools, agricultural activities, churches, the petroleum industry, and Amish children and adults. Unpublished finding aid available.

Black and white copy prints of the Land Run of 1889, and scenes of Kingfisher, Oklahoma Territory.

Black-and-white and color postcards of scenes throughout the United States and abroad. Many of the postcards are from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, showing Cherokee, Hopi, Navajo, Pawnee, and Pueblo Indians. Other states represented in the collection are Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Areas outside the United States include St. Lawrence, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, Canada; Rotterdam, Holland; Stockholm, Sweden; Tiberias, Israel; and Luxembourg. Subjects include national parks, ghost towns, schools, agricultural activities, churches, the petroleum industry, and Amish children and adults. Unpublished finding aid available.