Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mac Cook, 20, Tahlequah, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cook, rents and operates 180 acres in pasture and crops for his dairy cattle."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Because she came the greatest distance at her own expense to attend the state civil defense briefing, Florence Deaton, Cherokee county director from Tahlequah, Wednesday was presented an honorary colonels commission to Gov. Gary's staff by Tom Brett, state director."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Making it unanimous, the third marriage between an Oklahoma City and a Tahlequah family is destined to take place Saturday."

Two boys and a girl decorate church pews at the Methodist Home.

Two little boys climbing ladder to slide.

Teenage boy irons clothes while teenage girl looks on.

Boy and girl look at a model of the Nativity.

Article compares the communities of Cane Hill, Arkansas, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma and the progress of the two regions in the Cherokee Nation. T. L. Ballenger discusses the development of national seminaries in the areas and the people who settled there.

Teenage boy hands decorative candy canes to girl decorating fireplace mantle.

Small house at the Methodist Home.

Photograph of land that has been cleared and sprigged to Bermuda. Spring 1957.