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Cemeteries -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Mrs. James T. Blanton, Jr. Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-46
Scope and Contents

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Collector. A biographical sketch of Smith Paul, who was raised by the Chickasaw Indians, and for whom Pauls Valley, Oklahoma is named, along with two lists of inscriptions taken from tombstones in the old Indian cemeteries at Pauls Valley and at Whitebead, a historic village in the Chickasaw Nation, now in Garvin County, Oklahoma. Mrs. James T. Blanton Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1827-1941

Native American Graves, undated

 File — Box B-42, item: 2249-2253
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains photographs of various subjects, such as, nature, industry, and historic locations throughout Oklahoma. Also included are additional paper materials regarding information on photo developments, schedules, and photo releases.

Dates: undated

Navajo Cemetery. Many members of the E.E. Dale family buried here. Navajo, Oklahoma 1975, 1975

 Item — Box Photo M-22, item: 444
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1975

Part of the cemetery. Frazer, Oklahoma 1975, 1975

 Item — Box Photo M-22, item: 442
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1975

Part of the old cemetery. Boggy Depot, Oklahoma 1975, 1975

 Item — Box Photo M-20, item: 243
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1975

Photographs taken at the mass burial of mine disaster victims. , undated

 Item — Box Photo W-8, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of a mass burial for victims of a coal mine explosion near McAlester, Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Photographs taken at the mass burial of mine disaster victims. , undated

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

Black and white original prints of a mass burial for victims of a coal mine explosion near McAlester, Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Photographs taken at the mass burial of mine disaster victims. , undated

 Item — Box Photo W-8, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of a mass burial for victims of a coal mine explosion near McAlester, Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Photographs taken at the mass burial of mine disaster victims. , undated

 Item — Box Photo W-8, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of a mass burial for victims of a coal mine explosion near McAlester, Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Ponca Indian burying ground., undated

 Item — Box Photo H-4, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Sac and Fox, Ponca, Comanche, Oto, and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: undated

Postcard photo f the Seminole Cemetery., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-11, Item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy and original prints of Wewoka, Indian Territory and state, cotton gins, businesses, and a Democratic Party celebration. Also included are scenes of Seminole Indian cemeteries and tribal voting. A.M. Seran Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Ross family cemetery near Tahlequah, OK., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-34a, Item: 3101
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

Tamaha Cemetery. Irregular stone in center possibly marks oldest grave. Tamaha, Oklahoma 1975. 3 copies, 1975

 Item — Box Photo M-21, item: 361
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1975

The cemetery in Boggy Depot, Oklahoma. 1975, 1975

 Item — Box Photo M-20, item: 242
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1975

View of Navajo Cemetery looking through the gate. Navajo, Oklahoma, undated

 Item — Box Photo M-19, item: 173
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

View of Panther Cemetery, undated

 Item — Box Photo M-21, item: 333
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

View of the cemetery. Boggy Depot, Oklahoma 1975, 1975

 Item — Box Photo M-20, item: 244
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of numerous Oklahoma towns, including scenes of businesses, health resorts, stone quarries, railroads and dust storms. The collection also contains prints of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Sac and Fox Indians. John Wesley Morris Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1975

Walter Stanley Campbell Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-84
Scope and Contents

Professor. Personal correspondence (1897–1957); correspondence with Campbell’s relatives (1822–1896); correspondence with publishers and literary agents (1920–1958); literary manuscripts (circa 1914–1957); diaries, notebooks, and journals (1901–1926); and business papers (circa 1925–1959) regarding Campbell’s writings on the West, Indians, and Oklahoma, with emphasis on transportation, fortifications, cowboys, wars and battles, criminals and outlaws, and American Indian chiefs, along with original Indian art by Carl Sweezy. [Boxes 104 through 121 of this collection are available online at the OU Libraries website.]FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Dates: 1800-1964

White casket with pall bearers and six ladies dressed in white by side of grave, Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-4, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Sentinel, Oklahoma, including photographs of street scenes, businesses, farming, cotton gins and baptisms.

Dates: Undated

William Vance Shook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-562
Scope and Contents

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Minister. A typewritten autobiography (1953) of the Rev. W. Vance Shook, a Methodist circuit-rider in Oklahoma, describing the churches he founded and pastored; newspaper clippings (1938-1957) regarding the death of Shook's wife, Lottie Lee, and the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Churches in Putnam City (Okla.) and at Eighth and Lee Streets in Oklahoma City; and publications (1918-1935), including a booklet regarding the history of the Methodist Church in Logan County, Oklahoma, and programs from the Putnam City and Eighth and Lee Streets Methodist Churches. William Vance Shook Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1918-1954