Oklahoma -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Ben Johnson film archive, 1908-1994
Collection
Identifier: 2007-033
Scope and Contents
Filmed interviews and photographs collected by filmmaker Tom Thurman for the preparation of the documentary Ben Johnson; Third Cowboy on the Right. Includes material on the Johnson family, the Chapman-Barnard Ranch, and interviews on Ben Johnson's film career with James Coburn, Peter Bogdanovich, Harry Carey, Jr., Charlton Heston, John Milius, Lawrence Tierney, Lee Purcell, Bo Hopkins, Sheila Benson, LQ Jones, Joe McBride, Timothy Bottoms, Polly Platt, Robert Golden Armstrong, and Harry Dean...
Dates:
1908 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1994
Boy Scout bicycling meet photographs, approximately 1920s
Collection
Identifier: 1000-017
Scope and Contents
Panoramic (wide angle) photographs featuring Boy Scouts at a bicycling meet.
Dates:
approximately 1920s
Brand book of the Muskoke and Seminole live stock: Together with their constitution and by-laws, adopted at Muskogee, Indian Territory
Collection
Identifier: SF103.4.I56-M87 1884
Scope and Contents
A printed brand book detailing various brands used around Muskogee, Eufala, Okmulgee, and the region.
Dates:
1884-09-30
Chapman-Barnard Ranch oral history project, 1991
Collection
Identifier: 1994-001
Scope and Contents
On March 23, 1991, James P. Ronda, Professor of History at the University of Tulsa, interviewed a number of individuals connected with the Chapman-Barnard Ranch near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, during the First Annual Cowboy Reunion at the Ranch. The interviews were videotaped onto 2 tapes and later transcribed. Those interviewed were Dallas Poteet; Trig Meeks; Dink Talley; "Puny" Martin; Marvin Griffin; Oscar Wright; Andy Martin; June Finn; Lenora Meeks; Mildred Pearson Brown; "Raisins" Rhoads;...
Dates:
1991-03-23
Day-book and ledger, 1907-1911
Collection
Identifier: R154.W67-A3 1907
Content Description
Patient account book of Dr. Ralph Workman, a physician from Woodward, Oklahoma. The entries date from 1907 to 1911 and give information as to date of visit, person's relation to account holder (i.e. wife, child, etc.), number of visits, charges for visits, office charges, gynecological and obstetrical charge, medicine, surgical and other charges, total debits, credits to date and amount due, and disease and treatment information. There are approximately 278 full pages of accounts.
Dates:
1907 - 1911
DeWitt Clinton Lipe - Cherokee Strip papers, 1870-1913
Collection
Identifier: 1991-001
Scope and Contents
The DeWitt Lipe - Cherokee Strip Papers consist of autographs, autograph transcriptions, and typescript letters and documents of DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation. In general, the papers related to the Cherokee Nation's taxation and licensing requirements of Texas stockmen who grazed cattle on Indian lands west of the Arkansas River, known as the Cherokee Strip, on their way to the Kansas stockyards. Also included in the papers are various acts and resolutions relating to the...
Dates:
1870 - 1913
Farm Security Administration photographs, approximately 1930s-1940s
Collection
Identifier: 1980-002
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs produced from the Farm Security Administration files held by the Library of Congress. A copy of all photographs identified to Oklahoma during the 1930s and early 1940s were ordered. While the subject matter of the photographs varies, there is extensive documentation of the effects of the Depression on Oklahoma residents, as well as oil wells and refineries, railroads and farm activities. Nearly all of the photographs were taken by Russell Lee, although the...
Dates:
approximately 1930s-1940s
Grant Foreman Collection, 18th century to 1940's.
Collection
Identifier: MS-1944-67
Scope and Contents
Drafts of Foreman’s manuscripts are in this collection. The original manuscripts in this collection were written mostly in the 1930’s and 40’s; the great number of transcripts and Photostats are mostly from 18th and 19th century sources. Practically all relate to the social, political and economic development of Indian Territory and the State of Oklahoma.The original manuscripts are largely the correspondence Mr. Foreman maintained with person who could furnish historical...
Dates:
18th century to 1940's
[Indian Territory Cattle Brands]
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1000-116
Joseph T. McCaddon collection of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill papers, 1881-1919
Collection
Identifier: 1979-005
Scope and Contents
Consists of business correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Included in the collection are documents relating to Pawnee Bill's (Gordon W. Lillie) Old Town and Great Far East Show, a proposed radio program, "The Last of the Frontier Scouts," and photographs.
Dates:
1881 - 1919