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Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Hoover Dam Site at Black Canyon, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.270.46
Description

Black and white negative of Hoover Dam Site at Black Canyon.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman) / Photo Album

Hoover Dam Site at Black Canyon, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.270.48
Description

Black and white photograph of Hoover Dam Site at Black Canyon. Center top in ink, "Hoover Dam Site-Black Canyon", "Looking Down River", "5/14/32"

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman) / Photo Album

Hoover Dam Site at Black Canyon, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.270.49
Description

Black and white negative of Hoover Dam Site at Black Canyon.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman) / Photo Album

John Lowery Brown's account of his journey from Grand Saline, Indian Territory to California goldfields, April 1850

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 27.1]
Identifier: 3616.94
Description Foreword by Muriel H. Wright, June 1934. See transcription field for full text. Yellowed and crumbling with the passing of eighty-four years, the pages of a small, leather bound notebook reveal the story of the overland journey of a party of Cherokees who set out from the Grand Saline, Cherokee Nation, for California in 1850. This journal was kept by a young Cherokee, John Lowery Brown, who recorded the progress of the emigrants day by day. It tells the difficulties encountered along a...
Dates: April 1850
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown

Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.26
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Journal of John Lowery Brown (1779-1852), a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 10, 1850. This journal is in English. A transcript with notes is printed in Vol. XII of the Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society,...
Dates: 1850
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research

Map of the United States and Territories, 1866

 Item — Drawer MC-6, Folder: Map 209
Identifier: 3926.707
Description

From catalog info:
McClelland, D. Engraver & Publisher.
A map of the United States and territories showing the extent of public surveys...
Washington, D.C.: General Land Office, 1866.
Theodore Franks, Draftsman.
Scale: one inch equals 60 miles.
Phillips, Maps, p.915.





Dates: 1866
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Nevada Landscape, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.270.54
Description

Black and white photograph of Nevada landscape.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman) / Photo Album

Nevada Landscape, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.270.55
Description

Black and white negative of Nevada landscape.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman) / Photo Album

Progress Map of the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1877

 Item — Drawer MC-8, Folder: Map 260
Identifier: 3926.360
Description

From catalog info:
Western United States
1st Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, Corps of 1877 Progress Map of the U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, 1877.
Map to accompany Annual Report, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army.
Scale: 1:6,000,000.
Shows atlas sheets published, military posts, telegraph lines, railroads, military expeditions & surveys, draingage patterns, place names.





Dates: 1877
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Samuel Smith, a relative of Ida B. Wells and Eddie Faye Gates at Native Sons Bookstore in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2001

 Item — Box 6
Identifier: 4338.10472
Scope and Contents Printed in orange ink, "20 12 '00" vertical in bottom left on recto; Inscribed by hand in black ink, "NEV." in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in black ink, "Met Ida B. Wells Barnett's relatives here [down arrow drawn in black ink]" in center on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "Samuel Smith & EFG Native Son Book Store Las Vegas, NV Oct. 22, 2001" in lower center on verso; Printed in black ink, "FUJIFILM Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper" repeating on verso...
Dates: October 2001
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection / Photographs / Blue Photo Album

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