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Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 7611 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript Collection: Auguste Pierre (A.P.) Chouteau

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.44
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Photocopy of letter to Lewis Cass (?) concerning members of Stokes commission, being critical of Ellsworth and Schermerhorn. Also, reports loss of merchandise in rise of Verdigris River. A.P. Chouteau (1786 - 1838) was a prominent Fur trader, and liaison, especially with the Osage, in the Three Forks area of Oklahoma. Source: www. okhistory.org- Oklahoma Historical Society.

Dates: July 16, 1833

Manuscript Collection: Black Beaver

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.20
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Black Beaver was born at Belleville, Illinois, in 1806 and died at Anadarko, Oklahoma, in 1880. He was an interpreter at the earliest conference with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Washita tribes held by Colonel Dodge on the Red River in 1834. One of the most noted latter-day Delawares, he was guide and scout for Captain John C. Fremont on a trip to the Pacific Coast. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he had settled on a fine ranch...
Dates: August 19, 1877

Manuscript Collection: Brinton Darlington

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.56
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is the letterbook of Brinton Darlington (1804-1872), agent for the Cheyenne-Arapaho tribes and contains copies of letters sent out from the agency. They are all on official business (118 pp.), mostly signed by Darlington, but some of the later ones were signed by Jonathan D. Miles, acting agent.

Dates: 1871-1872

Manuscript Collection: Carl Wimar

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.224
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These eight original letters were written in German by Carl Wimar (1828-1862) to an unknown correspondent. They were from St. Louis, Sioux City, and Quincy, Illinois. Wimar was an artist of the Western scene, especially the American Indian.

Dates: 1857-1859

Manuscript Collection: Charles H. Lamb

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.120
Collection Overview

Charles Lamb was the Secretary of the Clinton, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce. Many of the items are related to his personal real estate deals. He bought and sold lots in Clinton. Some papers concern various lawsuits that he was a party to. There are tax and other receipts as well as newspaper clippings, newspaper ads, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1907-1959

Manuscript Collection: Charles M. Russell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.187
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A collection of illustrated letters, watercolors, pen and ink drawings, and poems, mostly related to the artists work. See also: Photography files

Dates: 1902-1977

Manuscript Collection: Chickasaw Ledger Books

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.41
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: There are two Chickasaw ledger books. Some items are receipts for funds paid, and disbursements of treaty monies. There are several letters between A. Harlan, on behalf of the $24,303.00 estate of a Chickasaw member Up-Pa-La and various Indian Affairs agents, especially N.G. Taylor, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. There is also an Act of Legislative Council of the Chickasaw granting rights to J. Wes Parker, W.M. Guy, C.D....
Dates: 1791-1905

Manuscript Collection: Christian Schussele

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.191
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Christian Schussele (1826?-1879) was born in Guebviller, Haut Rhin, Alsace, while that province was French. Schussele is the artist who painted the courtroom scene of Andrew Jackson being tried before Judge Hall in New Orleans, and most of these papers are letters concerning this undertaking. This painting is a part of the Gilcrease collection. C. J. Hedenberg is the correspondent who gathered the information that enabled...
Dates: 1853-1860

Manuscript Collection: Civil War Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.45
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These records are divided between Confederate Paper an Union Papers. Confederate papers include items regarding the release of Tyre L. Harris, and underage conscriptee, 9 tax receipts from Charles Powell, 15 Registered Bonds of the Confederate States of America, the signature papers of a Treaty between the Confederate States and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation, and a newspaper article, dated June 9, 1864 regarding the Sloop...
Dates: 1862-1904