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[Photograph 2012.201.B1243.0591]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "F.N. Shoemake"
Date: January 9, 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0507]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Aviator Wiley Post at Hatbox Field in Muskogee, Okla. (Original date unknown, photo originally published in 1936, again in 1981)"
Date: February 23, 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0344]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Traing school for African American Girls."
Date: November 4, 1937
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0341]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This picture was made when the state Santa Claus commission visited the institution recently."
Date: November 4, 1937
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0350]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Traing school for African American Girls."
Date: July 27, 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1243.0592]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "F.N. Shoemake"
Date: December 18, 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1186.0360]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: February 5, 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1243.0212]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "F. N. Shoemake H. M. Legislator Muskogee County"
Date: November 5, 1936
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0605]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Aerial photo of a field taken out of cultivation and made into bermuda grass pasture. The white lines are plow furrows, designed to hold water."
Date: 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Why Educate the Indians? (open access)

Why Educate the Indians?

Article is a speech from the Secretary of War regarding why Indigenous Americans should receive an education. This speech was given at the Commencement Exercises of Bacone College.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Hurley, Patrick J.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Events Among the Muskogees During Sixty Years (open access)

Events Among the Muskogees During Sixty Years

Article narrates the events of the author's life his life during the sixty years he spent living within Indian Territory as they coincide with historical events.
Date: Spring 1932
Creator: Turner, C. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Report of Placing a Marker in the National Cemetery at Fort Gibson for Col. John Nicks, Veteran of the War of 1812 (open access)

Report of Placing a Marker in the National Cemetery at Fort Gibson for Col. John Nicks, Veteran of the War of 1812

Article chronicles the military career of Col. John Nicks, a veteran of the War of 1812.
Date: Winter 1932
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gen. James M. Shackelford (open access)

Gen. James M. Shackelford

Article chronicles the military career of Judge James M. Shackleford who established the first United States Court within Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 1934
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Annual Meeting at Muskogee (open access)

Annual Meeting at Muskogee

Article announces the location of the next annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and the tour of historical sites that will commence during the meeting.
Date: Spring 1934
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society (open access)

Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society

Article details the events that transpired at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 18 and 19, 1934.
Date: Summer 1934
Creator: Estill-Harbour, Emma
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alexander Lawrence Posey (open access)

Alexander Lawrence Posey

Article details the life and lineage of renowned Creek poet Alexander Lawrence Posey as he became a political and educational leader.
Date: Winter 1933
Creator: Challacombe, Doris
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Editorials and Notes: Historic Fort Gibson (open access)

Editorials and Notes: Historic Fort Gibson

Article is a resolution made my the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society to dismantle Fort Gibson while establishing efforts to preserve the site's artifacts and records.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soy Beans in Muskogee County

Photograph of a field of soy beans growing in Muskogee County. There is a man standing in the middle of the field. This is the W. Z. Tyler farm in Braggs, Oklahoma. This is part of the 1932 annual report.
Date: 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of SCS personnel explaining contour farming and crop rotation to African-American farmers. OK-5502.
Date: July 13, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of Mr. Ramsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Badwick, tenant, on contour-planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in the background. [OK ID no. illegible].
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a big alkalai spot and gullies in a field which has been abandoned for five years. The original lcover was good blue stem grass with heavy sod and was broken out for cultivation in 1909. OK-5615.
Date: April 22, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Muskogee Field Day

Photograph of a portion of the crowd at the Muskogee Field day held on May 28, 1937. The lunch, followed by speakers was held on top of Stebbins Mountain from which a comprehensive view of many phases of soil conservation was visible in the valley below. OK-5747.
Date: May 28, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Muskogee Field Day

Photograph of a portion of the crowd at the Muskogee Field day held on May 28, 1937. The lunch, followed by speakers was held on top of Stebbins Mountain from which a comprehensive view of many phases of soil conservation was visible in the valley below. OK-5746.
Date: May 28, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History