Tenney, John Richard, 1935-1962

Original State Capitol Building, 1950s

Item

Identifier: 2006.012.7

Scope and Contents

Exterior view of the original State Capitol Building, situated on the Masonic grounds, in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Copyright Dick Tenney.

Dates: 1950s

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Oklahoma collection / Guthrie

Osage Agency Marker, Undated

Item — Box 3: [Barcode: A000023243224], Folder: 6

Identifier: 1975.006.3.Osage.003

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a metal sign for the Osage Agency that reads "Established 1872. Agency village named for Chief Pa-hu-ska, well known in Osage history. By Act of Congress, 1906, tribe retained ownership of minerals in the reservation lands. Discovery of oil later made the 2,229 alloted Osages the richest Indian tribe. Notable chiefs were James Bigheart, Bacon Rind, Fred Lookout."

Dates: Undated

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981 / Series 3. Photographs. / Osage

Osage Hills State Park

File

Identifier: 2006.012.12

Scope and Contents From the File: An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...

Dates: 1864 - 1991

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Oklahoma collection

Osage Tribal Museum, 1938

Item — Box 3: [Barcode: A000023243224], Folder: 6

Identifier: 1975.006.3.Osage.001

Scope and Contents

View of front of building identified as the Osage Tribal Museum in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1938

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981 / Series 3. Photographs. / Osage

Owen Park, 1950s

Item

Identifier: 2006.012.18

Scope and Contents

View of the Pioneer Memorial, and the site of the Pioneer Association picnic grounds.

Dates: 1950s

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Oklahoma collection / Tulsa / Parks / Mohawk Park

Owen Park Memorial, Undated

Item — Box 2: [Barcode: A000023243217], Folder: 9

Identifier: 1975.006.3.Miscellaneous.015

Scope and Contents Indian memorial in Owen Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reads: "Indian Memorial.682 feet east of this marker the territories of the Cherokee Creek Osage tribes of Indians join in a common boundry point. On June 2 1825 the Osage nation, under treaty with the U.S. granted certain lands to the government for the use and benefit of the Cherokee and Creek tribes who were being removed from the southern states. This monument is to commemorate that treaty and to mark that spot where lands of the three great...

Dates: Undated