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Arkansas (state)

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\continents\North and Central America\nations\United States\states\

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript Collection: George W. Fields

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.66
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: George W. Fields (n. d.) was an attorney for the Texas Cherokees. Three documents relate to the contract for Field's services and one is the account of the Proceedings of the General council of Texas Cherokees and Associated Bands empowering him to act in the matter of the claim against the State of Texas.. One typed, bound manuscript, dated 1920, is entitled "The Texas Cherokees, 1820-1839" and has ninety-two pages. There is...
Dates: 1920-1925
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: George W. Fields

Manuscript Collection: James Orr

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.161
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: James and Minerva Washburn Orr were missionaries to the Cherokees, stationed at Dwight Mission. Four of these letters were written when Dwight was located in Arkansas Territory, the others from the later location of the mission in Indian Territory. The letters refer to life at Dwight, but mostly are concerned with family and health problems. They are written by the Washburn sisters, Lavinia and Lydia, other members of the...
Dates: 1822-1960
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: James Orr

Map of Arkansas and Indian Territory, 1863

 Item — Drawer E-11, Folder: Map 191
Identifier: 3926.236
Description

From catalog info:
Colton, Joseph Hutchin (1800-1893)
Arkansas, Oklahoma (Indian Territory)
New York: J.H. Colton, Publisher [1863]
1"=48mi.
May be one of the 10 maps from R.S. Fisher's A Chronological History of the Civil War in America 160p. 1863
Phillips Atlases v-1 p.747 (Entry #1350)





Dates: 1863
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of Indian Territory, 1887

 Item — Drawer MC-11, Folder: Map 299
Identifier: 3926.742
Description

From catalog info:
Oklahoma (Indian Territory)
Brodie, Paul. Draftsman.
Map of Indian Territory Showing the Railroads Built and Projected...
Scale: 1:900,000
Wn. D.C.:Office of Indian Affairs, U.S. Dept fo the Interior, 1887.
Shows Oklahoma District (Unassigned Lands), Five Civilized Nations and other Indian tribes, railroads. Map annotated in red & blue. Hargrett Catalog - p.346.





Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1892

 Item — Drawer MC-12, Folder: Map 322
Identifier: 3926.766
Description

From catalog info:
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1892, engravers and publishers
Scale: 1:1,280,000
Atlas plate #411 from Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World, Chiacago: 1894.
Phillips Atlases vol. 1, p. 792 (Entry #1440)



Dates: 1892
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1890

 Item — Drawer MC-12, Folder: Map 314
Identifier: 3926.639
Description

From catalog info:
Authorized by Congress
New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lithographers 1890.
1" = 12mi.
11th U.S. Census
Lands of 5 civilized Tribes & Quapaw Agency. Railroads.




Dates: 1890
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of the eastern United States, 1838

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3926.115
Descriptive Title

Traveller's Guide- S. Augustus Mitchell

Dates: 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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 / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map Showing Routes of Emigrating Indians, 1830 - 1840

 Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 118
Identifier: 39.567
Description This map is a depiction of the routes of emigrating Indigenous tribes, specifically the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Seminole nations. Inscribed in pencil, "Map. 118" in bottom right on verso. Scope and contents note on Cartobibliography Form: "Significant Characteristics: shows emigration routes of the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws and Choctaws". A blueline print was made in 1932.From Map Card:Grant Foreman (1869-1953) Historian & Map...
Dates: Publication: 1830 - 1840
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map Showing the Lands Assigned to Emigrant-Indians West of Arkansas and Missouri, 1833

 Item — Drawer MC-6, Folder: Map 125
Identifier: 39.731
Description This map provides the locations of Indigenous tribes west of Arkansas and Missouri. The map includes numbers of Indigenous peoples who emigrated to land given, the tribes given land and the amount, the number of Indigenous people east of the Mississippi, and numbers of Indigeous peope who reside west of the Mississippi. Inscribed in blue pencil, "1833" underneath title along left edge on verso; Inscribed in type, "Estimated quantity of Land assigned to the tribes, who have emigrated from the...
Dates: 1833
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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