Pawhuska (Okla.).

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Handwritten and signed letter from H.B. Freeman (Acting Agent, Osage Agency) to J.H.H [?].

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A man identified as John Stink sits on a tree stump outside, smoking.

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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."

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

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...

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A crowd of people sit and stand outside a round wooden structure. People in the foreground sit on blankets. Food being cooked on racks above open flames in the middleground.