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A boomer camp in Arkansas City, Kansas, where prospective settlers were waiting for the Cherokee Strip to open. May 1, 1893., 1893
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Arthur Covey Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier:WHC-P-1557
Scope and Contents
Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1880-1920
Found in: Western History Collections
Charles Lafferty Photograph Collection
Collection — Box Photo L-1
Identifier:WHC-P-1513
Scope and Contents
A black and white copy print of the opening of the Cherokee Strip, September 16, 1893.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections
Cherokee Strip land run. A few seconds after high noon, when photo was taken byPrettyman, (whose assistant took this photograph). Men on horseback and in wagons racing at the start. This picture was used in most newspapers and magazines at the time, and was also used in Edna Ferber’s bookCimarronand the movie adaptation of the same. September 16, 1893. Print, 8x10. Photographer – W.S.Prettyman, Arkansas City., 16 September 1893
Item — Box Photo W-1, item: 45
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.
Dates: 16 September 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Fred L. Wenner Photograph Collection
Cherokee Strip Opening, entering land by trail and train, 1893. (Outsized) , 1893
Item — Box Photo O-1, Oversize Box: Photo Room 9a
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory and Oklahoma; statehood day activities in Guthrie, Oklahoma and the opening of the Cherokee Strip. Liberty National Bank Manuscript Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Oklahoma City Liberty National Bank Photograph Collection
Colored postcard entitled “Run of 1889.” However, image is based on Prettyman photo of the 1893 Run into the Cherokee Strip., 1893
Item — Box Photo P-30, Item: 2034
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: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Frank Phillips Photograph Collection
Crossing Salt Fork River near Guthrie,Oklahoma TerritoryWagon train of Boomers, c. 1880’s., 1880’s
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1880’s
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Cunningham Indian Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier:WHC-P-1671
Scope and Contents
Black and white copy prints of Apache, Comanche, Sioux, Pawnee, Iowa, Osage, Oto, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians. Also included are scenes of Fort Apache, Arizona, Geronimo, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Quanah Parker's grave at Post Oak Cemetery.
Dates: 1890-1960
Found in: Western History Collections
Drawing for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory, 10 a.m., July 29, 1901., 1901
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1901
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Drawing for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory The drawing took place at El Reno,Oklahoma Territory, beginning at 10 a.m., July 29, 1901. It was held on the platform with canvas roof shown in the left center of the picture. The method of opening w, 1901
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1901
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Drawing for Kiowa Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory The tops of freight cars furnished seats for some of the interested 30,000 persons who witnessed this drawing.
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893-1901
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection
Collection
Identifier:WHC-M-264
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of interviews with pioneers who took part in the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma, with accompanying township maps showing the homesteads of settlers. The collection also includes historical and cultural information about the Indian tribes, including the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw) and Ponca, that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip. The final part of the collection consists of correspondence and field notebooks written by Orville Stanley Smith and Theodore H. Barrett during an 1871 survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation in Dakota Territory. Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1832-1958
Found in: Western History Collections
El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, period of registration for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma Territory July 10 to July 26 inclusive, 1901; this picture taken in the morning shows the refreshment stands in the streets, which served hot dogs and drinks., 1901
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1901
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
First train leaving the line north of Orlando for Perry, September 16, 1893. Opening for the Cherokee Strip., 1893
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Franklin Campbell Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier:WHC-M-1748
Scope and Contents
Minister. A typescript of the Rev. Smith's autobiography (1946) which includes accounts of his experiences in Oklahoma Territory and the origins of Oklahoma place names, as well as stories concerning religion, settlers, cowboys, marshals, the weather, and public opinion regarding the Spanish-American War and the Crazy Snake Rebellion in Indian Territory. The collection also includes a typescript of Smith's biography of James Patrick Major, C.S.A., who held important commands in the Southwest during the Civil War.
Dates: 1946
Found in: Western History Collections
Getting ready for The Run of 1893 when the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlement. Negative enclosed, 1893
Item — Box Photo L-4, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of Cheyenne Indians, and scenes of settlers waiting for the land run near Tipton, Oklahoma Territory.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Lefler Studio Photograph Collection
“Hell’s Acre” in Perry. Canvas tents of land and deed processing offices showing a wagon with an open bed. Perry, OT, September 23, 1893. Copy print, 3x5., 23 September 1893
Item — Box Photo W-1, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.
Dates: 23 September 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Fred L. Wenner Photograph Collection
Homesteaders (“Strippers”) waiting in line to register for the run into the Cherokee Strip at Orlando, Oklahoma Territory, September 11, 1893., 1893
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
In line at the land office, Perry, Oklahoma Territory, September 22, 1893, 9 a.m., waiting to file claims., 1893
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
J. W. Gilliland Collection
Item — Box G-2
Identifier:WHC-M-223
Scope and Contents
Collector. A photocopy of a letter by Newt Locke to his brother, Tom, describing his participation in the Run of 1893 into the Cherokee Strip, with accounts of the settlement of the towns of Hennessey and Enid, Oklahoma.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections
Jesse Albert Baker Collection
Collection
Identifier:WHC-M-727
Scope and Contents
Judge. Election certificate and letter from William H. Murray regarding Baker's service as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention; letters from Oklahoma Territorial Governor Cassius M. Barnes, Governor J.B.A. Robertson and State Supreme Court Justice Summers Hardy; a transcript of the story of Baker's participation in the Cherokee Strip Run in 1893; and one copy of "The Barking Water" magazine (1928) of Wewoka, Oklahoma.
Dates: 1853-1928
Found in: Western History Collections
Kay Peters Collection
Collection — Box P-1
Identifier:WHC-M-487
Scope and Contents
Photographer. An account (n.d.) by Peters of his participation in the Land Run of 1893 into the Cherokee Strip; correspondence (1904) regarding settlement of the estate of a deceased relative; a warranty deed (1900); and a Garfield County Tax Assessment List (1927). Kay Peters Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1904-1927
Found in: Western History Collections
Line at Post Office, Perry, Oklahoma Territory, October 16, 1893., 1893
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 31
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Line-up of men, horses and wagons waiting for the starting gun at the land opening of the Cherokee Outlet Strip. 1893., 1893
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Margaret Clark Stephens Collection
Collection — Box S-45
Identifier:WHC-M-1739
Scope and Contents
Collector. Newspaper and magazine articles (1948-1969) regarding Don Santiago Querque, also known as James Kirker and Don Santiago Kirker; and a photocopy of a manuscript (n.d.) regarding frontier life and conditions near Arkansas City, Kansas, during the opening of the Cherokee Strip and subsequent settlement of the rest of Oklahoma Territory. Margaret Clark Stephens Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1948-1969
Found in: Western History Collections
Oklahoma City Liberty National Bank Photograph Collection
Collection — Box Photo O-1
Identifier:WHC-P-1415
Scope and Contents
Black and white copy prints of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory and Oklahoma; statehood day activities in Guthrie, Oklahoma and the opening of the Cherokee Strip. Liberty National Bank Manuscript Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1889-1926
Found in: Western History Collections
Opening of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita Indian lands, Oklahoma TerritorySix of the 33 employees of the General Land Office who were detailed to assist in the opening.
Item — Box Photo B-11, item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of the towns of Lawton, El Reno, Perry and White Rock, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of settlement, businesses, railroads, the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the land drawing at El Reno, and a wagon train of settlers during the Land Run of 1889.
Dates: 1893-1901
Found in: Western History Collections / Bureau of Land Management Photograph Collection
Preston Van Buren Duvall Collection
Item — Box D-28
Identifier:WHC-M-981
Scope and Contents
Typed manuscript (1938) concerning the life of Preston Duvall and his experiences in the run into the Cherokee Strip in 1893.
Dates: 1938
Found in: Western History Collections
Ralph Hayden Records Collection
Collection
Identifier:WHC-M-1832
Scope and Contents
Professor. Magazine and journal article (1940-1968) regarding historiography; and a manuscript (n.d.) by Loban S. Records entitled "The Recollections of a Cowboy of the Seventies and Eighties" regarding the lives of cowboys and ranchers in Kansas and the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma in the 1870's and 1880's. The manuscript includes an account of Records's participation in the Land Run of 1893. Ralph Hyden Records Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates: 1940-1968
Found in: Western History Collections
Registering at Oklahoma Strip Run. Orlando, Oklahoma. 7:00am, September 11, 1893., 1893 September 11
Item — Box Photo M-4, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:
Black and white copy prints of Guthrie and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory and state. Photographs in the collection include scenes of businesses, the street car system, and of the Run of 1893, taken near Orlando, Oklahoma Territory. Also included are photographs of Wichita and Comanche Indians.
Dates: 1893 September 11
Found in: Western History Collections / Meyer Photographic Shop Photograph Collection
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