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[Photograph 0002.02-D E-3 Ford-Boardman (7-30-2021)]

Photograph only of Porum Landing FD Engine 3, a 1981 Ford/Boardman. This truck was originally owned by the Midwest City, OK, Fire Department.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 0003.02-D E-2074 Cent. States (7-30-2021)]

Photograph only of Porum Landing FD Engine-2074. A 2004 Sterling/Central States pumper.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cornerstone of Muskogee Grace Episcopal Church

Stacked stone building, raised lettering on stone "REBUILT 1923," signage below "Grace Episcopal Church, The First Episcopal Church in Oklahoma Indian Territory," image of church building, "The present building was constructed at Sixth and Broadway in 1905 and was moved to this site and enlarged in 1923." Church history on sign states Rt. Rev. Francis Key Brooke established it as mission in 1893 and as parish in 1904.
Date: 2021
Creator: Bell, Pam
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Entrance to Muskogee Grace Episcopal Church

Double front doors with arched window above. Doors are painted red and have wood trimmed cross shape on each.
Date: 2021
Creator: Bell, Pam
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Steeple of Muskogee Grace Episcopal Church

Wood shake covered multi-storied steeple with cross atop. Steeple set on stacked stone building.
Date: 2021
Creator: Bell, Pam
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 0004.02-D Engine 6 (11-11-2020)]

Photograph of Muskogee FD Engine 6. 1998 Spartan/Ferrara. Photo taken in front of MFD station 6.
Date: November 11, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Reading Prestatehood Muskogee: Racial-Political Discourse in American Indian, African American, and White Newspapers, 1905-07 (open access)

Reading Prestatehood Muskogee: Racial-Political Discourse in American Indian, African American, and White Newspapers, 1905-07

Article discusses prestatehood Muskogee, Oklahoma and the establishment of four newspapers catering to different demographics of the racially diverse population, as well as the implications of the issues these papers debated.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Person, Angela M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader (open access)

Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader

Article traces the life and genealogy of S. R. Walkingstick to show the ways in which one Cherokee family contributed to the tribal and state community.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: McCullagh, James G.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Blunt Civil War Fortifications (open access)

Fort Blunt Civil War Fortifications

Article provides historical context for the fortification of Fort Gibson, previously named Fort Blunt by Union soldiers, through examination of archaeological evidence from the Civil War era.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Cole, Robert L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Funeral Program for Eunice Eugene (Geno) Colbert (open access)

Funeral Program for Eunice Eugene (Geno) Colbert

Funeral Program for Eunice Eugene (Geno) Colbert
Date: April 1, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Civilized Captivity: Camp Gruber's Prisoner of War Camp (open access)

Civilized Captivity: Camp Gruber's Prisoner of War Camp

This article describes the life of German prisoners of war as recorded in oral histories by the men who experienced incarceration at Camp Gruber, located near Braggs, Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Riley, Trent
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

E-3 (5-6-13)

Photograph of Porum Landing Engine 3. This rig was originally owned by the Midwest City FD.
Date: May 6, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
One Succeeded, One Did Not: Bacone College and the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, 1910-80 (open access)

One Succeeded, One Did Not: Bacone College and the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, 1910-80

Article explores the success and failure of two American Indian institutions of higher education; Bacone College and Oklahoma Presbyterian College. While Bacone still serves students in the twenty-first century, Oklahoma Presbyterian closed in the 1960s. This article identifies the reasons why Bacone survived, and Oklahoma Presbyterian College did not.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Crum, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Bard to Speculator: Alexander Lawrence Posey and the Muscogee Nation, 1902-08 (open access)

From Bard to Speculator: Alexander Lawrence Posey and the Muscogee Nation, 1902-08

Article explores Muscogee Indian Alexander Posey's role as a speculator and member of one of the Dawes Commission enrollment parties.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Widener, Jeffrey M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A. J. Smitherman: Pen Warrior (open access)

A. J. Smitherman: Pen Warrior

Article traces A. J. Smitherman's tumultuous career in the Oklahoma press defending African American causes.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Seals Nevergold, Barbara A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Antisuffragist. Antifeminist! Pro-women? The Anomalous Alice Mary Robertson (open access)

Antisuffragist. Antifeminist! Pro-women? The Anomalous Alice Mary Robertson

Article examining Oklahoma's first woman representative in the United States Congress, Alice Mary Robertson. In this article Robertson's attitudes toward suffrage, feminism, and women at home and in politics, are explored.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Caldwell, Deah
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"A Nomad in White Man's Jungle": An Introduction to the Works of Louis Oliver (open access)

"A Nomad in White Man's Jungle": An Introduction to the Works of Louis Oliver

Article analyzing the literary work of Louis Oliver, American Indian writer and poet.
Date: Winter 2009
Creator: Schmidtke, Carsten
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945-1964 (open access)

Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945-1964

This article is the second part of a two-part article on the Grand River Dam Authority. In this part, the author analyzes the state agency's history after World War II. Only one-third complete in 1945, the GRDA operated only Pensacola Dam. Over the next three decades Senators Elmer Thomas and Robert S. Kerr guided the federal legislation that would allow the Authority to complete its flood control dams and power generation/distribution facilities in the watershed of the Grand River.
Date: Autumn 2009
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2 (open access)

From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2

The second part of this two-part article continues the evaluation of the problems in Indian healthcare and the campaign led by Senators Fred Harris and Dewey Bartlett to correct a record of neglect. The healthcare problem after 1970 was linked to a new federal policy of tribal self-determination.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 85, Number 4, Winter 2007-08 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 85, Number 4, Winter 2007-08

Notes and Document section from Volume 85, Number 4, Winter 2007-2008. The article is a short biographical sketch remembering Anton "Tony" Goetz, director of Muskogee Central High School Marching Band.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Mullins, Jonita
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828 (open access)

"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828

Article outlines the travails of the first Creek emigrants to the trans-Mississippi region that is now Oklahoma, whose journey preceded the removal of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Haveman, Christopher D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Funeral Program for Nathaniel Hawthorne Owens (open access)

Funeral Program for Nathaniel Hawthorne Owens

Funeral Program for Nathaniel Hawthorne Owens
Date: May 5, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946 (open access)

A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946

Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Gibson Heritage Festival

Photograph of a scene during the Old Fort Gibson Heritage Days Festival.
Date: April 2006
Creator: Argo, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History