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Cotton gins and ginning -- Oklahoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

A. M. Seran Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1461
Scope and Contents

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: 1875-1920

Alfred M. Thompson Sr. Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo T-9
Identifier: WHC-P-3071
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Walters, Oklahoma. Also includes the Walters cotton gin and cotton market, a banquet for World War I volunteers, and a Confederate veterans reunion at the city park in Dallas, Texas. Alfred M. Thompson Sr. Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1901-1917

Alvin J. Herring Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1637
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of farming and coal mining near Chelsea, Oklahoma. The collection also includes street scenes in Chelsea. Alvin J. Herring Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1907-1938

Armand E. Gibson Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1595
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Dustin, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including scenes of businesses, railroads, farming, and cotton gins. The collection also contains a scene of Cromwell, Oklahoma and a photograph of Creek Indians.

Dates: 1890-1920

Armentrout Studio Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1549
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory and state, including street scenes, farming, businesses, railroads and industry.

Dates: 1889-1910

Choctaw Cotton Oil Company. Lon S. Jacks was manager and ginner. Wagon with horses and workers are visible. Romulus, Oklahoma, early 1900s. Donor: Esther Decker, early 1900s

 Item — Box Photo S-24, item: 74
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Hazel, Sayre, Shawnee, Romulus, and Newalla, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of schools, businesses, farming, railroads, sawmills and mining.

Dates: early 1900s

Don Sporleder Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1515
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Davenport and Shamrock, Oklahoma and Perry, Stroud, and Chandler, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of cotton marketing, streets, railroad construction, the Oklahoma National Guard and tornado damage at Chandler.

Dates: 1893-1910

Emma Alberta White Coleman Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1556
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Norman, Oklahoma Territory and state, including street scenes, businesses, schools, firefighters, parades, and scenes from the University of Oklahoma. The collection also contains studio portraits of Choctaw women and a Choctaw family in front of their home. Emma A. Coleman Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1889-1915

Enyard W. Gentry Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1664
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Porum, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including photographs of businesses, railroads, school children, farming, ranching, mining and family portraits.

Dates: 1890-1945

Evelyn Hughes Shumard Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1672
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Sapulpa, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, along with images of Oklahoma City, Fort Reno and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Smith, Arkansas, businesses, schools, oil wells, railroads, and cotton ginning. The collection also includes scenes of Creek, Comanche, Apache, and Yuchi Indians and the Euchee Mission near Sapulpa, Indian Territory.

Dates: 1895-1940

Farmers' Union Cooperative Gin Company Collection

 Collection — Box F-1
Identifier: WHC-M-1001
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Bylaws of the Farmers' Union Cooperative Gin Company of Walters, Oklahoma; minutes of the meetings of its members and directors (1927-1936); and a financial statement (1948) of the company.

Dates: 1927-1948

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

Hollis Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1132
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Hollis, Bethel, Dryden, Looney and Metcalf, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of businesses, postal service, agriculture, parades, schools, school children, and studio portraits from these communities during both the territorial and statehood periods.

Dates: 1878-1966

Hurley L. Henderson Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1593
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1910

Irvin Munn Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-2492
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Chickasha and Minco, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and Tuttle, Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of street scenes, businesses, agriculture, railroads, schools, ferries, fire fighters, airplanes, and electric railroads.

Dates: 1890-1940

Jesse Lee Rader Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1618
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Norman, Oklahoma Territory and Guthrie, Oklahoma. Also in the collection are photographs of the University of Oklahoma, which include scenes of students, faculty and campus. Jesse Lee Rader Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1889-1951

John Wesley Morris Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1647
Scope and Contents

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: 1880-1975

McAlester Public Library Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1639
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Italian Americans in Pittsburg County, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Included in the collection are photographs of their organizations, businesses, coal mining, sports, and cemeteries, along with photographs of the towns of McAlester, Indian Territory and Oklahoma state, Krebs, Indian Territory, and Hartshorne and Crowder, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1895-1935

Mrs. Morris S. Simpson Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1566
Scope and Contents

Black and white original photographs of Lawton, Oklahoma, including scenes of the Morris' business, ranch, and cotton gin. Mrs. Morris S. Simpson Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1909-1925

Oklahoma Geological Survey Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1554
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints, negatives, and panoramas of numerous Oklahoma towns, mines, oil wells, oil fields, industries, rivers, health resorts, farms, sod houses, railroads and the University of Oklahoma. The collection also includes scenes of Oklahoma mountains, rock formations, different soils and meteorite crators, along with Indian schools and graveyards. Oklahoma Geological Survey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1900-1940

Pruitt Gin Company Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-502
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Cotton ginning firm. Daily reports (1940-1946); weight records (1941-1945); customer account ledgers (1940-1945); and financial records of the Pruitt Gin Company of Lindsay, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1940-1946

Robert E. Cunningham Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1666
Scope and Contents

Black and white glass plate negatives from original prints, original glass plate negatives and copy prints of settlement scenes of Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Perry and Lawton, Oklahoma Territory. Included are scenes of numerous other Oklahoma towns, the oil industry, businesses, railroads, farming, the military, and cowboys, along with studio portraits of Afro-Americans. The collection also contains photographs of the Land Run of 1893.

Dates: 1880-1930

Samuel Williams Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1463
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of cotton marketing and ginning activities at Cordell, Elk City, Erick, Frederick, Sayre, and Texola, Oklahoma and Shamrock, Texas. Samuel Williams Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1908-1919

Seminole Nation Museum Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1151
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Seminole Indians, railroads, oil fields, schools, cotton gins, along with scenes of Weber City, Maud, Seminole, and Wewoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

Dates: 1880-1930

Shawnee News Star Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1610
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Shawnee, Indian Territory, including photographs of a trade union parade, businesses, a cotton gin, and railroad construction.

Dates: 1902

Stephens County Historical Museum Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1648
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Comanche, Empire City and Marlow, Oklahoma, and Duncan, Indian Territory. The collection includes photographs of businesses, farming, street scenes, firefighters, schools, banks, and the oil industry.

Dates: 1880-1980

W. W. Blackburn Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1577
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of the towns of Berlin, Oklahoma Territory and Elk City and Sayre, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of cotton marketing, fairs, railroad construction, businesses and personalities.

Dates: 1892-1926

William E. Van Cleave Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1161
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Indian Hospital at Talihina, Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of the Concho Indian School, Seneca Indian School, Wyandotte Indian School; the towns of Medicine Park, Stilwell, Shawnee, McAlester, McCloud and Spavinaw, Oklahoma; and scenes of a cotton gin and businesses.

Dates: 1890-1933

William Hollis Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1592
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of the Hollis family and Hollis, Oklahoma Territory and state, including photographs of street scenes, businesses, cotton gins, camp meetings, and statehood day celebrations.

Dates: 1901-1919

Woodward County Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1186
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma including Woodward, Richmond, Curtis, Tangier, Mooreland, Haskew, Mutual and Enid. The collection also contains photographs of agriculture, businesses, cowboys, the range cattle industry, schools, and the United States Cavalry. Woodward County Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1893-1915