H 2500.1 R432c 2013 c.l t Visiting the Research Center Interstate 44 Located on the first floor of the Oklahoma Oklahoma Historical Society NE 28th ST J NE 28th ST History Center, the Research Center is free and < Research Center open to the public. There is no charge to visit. We NE 26th ST NE 26th ST _ < ask that you sign the guest register each time you 5 r NE 25th ST J. v>g z n § a. 3 visit. Cell phones are not permitted in the Re­ 2 3 NE 24th ST o ^ < £ o j^k Oklahoma -o search Center. IE e Z3 I ^•^History « * Center Interstate s Interstate 4 NE 23rd ST NE 23rd ST • 235 Governor's 35 Services The Public Services staff is avail­ State Capitol Mansion cj » able to assist visitors in locating resources of all NE 21st ST £ - £ I formats for historical and genealogical research. £ to ,o o o O* $ n z •a •v -1 Copy services are available for a fee. A research IS m c> C> g request service is offered to patrons seeking B Jj 3 information about a specific person, event or Interstate I 40 topic. For complete details call (405) 522-5225 or visit www.okhistoiy.org/research. Research Center Hours Monday - Saturday Online Catalog Search the online catali 10:00am to 4:45pm to locate items in our collection. The Archives Catalog includes manuscript collections, mi­ First Monday of the Month 10:00am to 7:45pm crofilm, photographs, oral histories, maps, film and video. The Library Catalog includes books, Closed Sundays and state holidays. journals, newsletters and quarterlies. Explore the Newspaper Catalog to view newspaper hold­ Oklahoma Historical Society ings by title, location or date. The Newspaper Oklahoma History Center Articles section offers a citation index to select 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive newspaper articles in the collection. Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Right: Mabel Tompkins on her jumping horse, "Skyrocket," Research Center Charles H. Tompkins Collection (405) 522-5225 www.okhistory.org/research African American Civil Rights protest at the lunch counter at Katz Drug, 200 West Main, August 26, 1958, John Melton Collection

Historic Map by Lester Raymer, OHS Map Collection OKLAHOMA^ HISTORY Wiley's Last Flight, Wiley Post Collection CENTERN

Front: Kate Barnard before 1909, photo by John Woods, This publication is issued by the Oklahoma Historical Society. 5.000 copies have been OHS Photograph Collection prepared and distributed at a price or SO.2^2 each. Copies have been deposited with the Publications Clearinghouse oi the Oklahoma Department or Libraries. Book Collections include state and gee (Creek) and Seminole - but also the Federal Oral Histories date to the 1930s and - R county histories, family histories, city directories, Records of many other tribes. Also available are include more than 8,000 interviews. The majority telephone books, high school and university year­ the records of the Dawes Commission pertaining were conducted after 1965 and explore an array books and more. The more than 85,000 bound to allotment. The American Indian Archives con­ of topics including aviation, urban development, volumes explore a variety of topics and include tain over 3.5 million documents and more than Civil Rights, immigrants and ethnicity, important information about all 50 states with an emphasis 6,000 volumes. events, entertainment, American Indians, cul­ on Oklahoma, American Indians, and the West. ture and significant people. The John and Elea­ Photograph Collections include more nor Kirkpatrick Research Center has two rooms Manuscript Collections offer a wealth than 8 million black and white and color prints, devoted to listening and watching these important of unpublished materials which focus on Okla­ slides, nitrates, glass plates, and digital images. audio and video media. resources are available to those tracing their fam­ homa's development through the personal and busi­ The collection represents the entire state and ily tree. Family and county histories, US Fed­ ness records of our citizens. The archive holds more covers topics such as ranch and range, politics, Film & Video Archives include over eral Census records, American Indian rolls and than 6,000 manuscript collections that range from American Indians, business and industry, immi­ 12.1 million linear feet of motion picture film and records, vertical and biographical files, cemetery, the intimate diaries of Indian Territory missionaries grants, agriculture, urban settings, transportation, video footage dating from 1908 to the present. military and land resources can provide valuable to the papers of frontier businessmen and former petroleum, military, education, fashion and more. Notable collections include that of Arthur Ramsey, information to genealogical researchers. state and territorial governors. The photograph collections date from the 1840s a 1930s Oklahoma newsreel cameraman, Haskell to the present. Pruett, who worked at Oklahoma A&M, the Of special interest are the Dawes Final Rolls of Notable collections include the works of historians Colcord Family Collection featuring home foot­ the Five Civilized Tribes, the 1890 Oklahoma Grant Foreman and Joseph Thoburn, newspaper­ Newspaper Archives found in the Re­ age from the 1920s and 1930s, and footage of early Territorial Census, Smith's First Directory of men Fred Barde and Otis Sullivant, and early com­ search Center offer the largest Oklahoma news­ television personality Ida "B." Oklahoma Territory and the Oklahoma Federal mercial material. Also of interest is the Dunning paper collection on microfilm consisting of more Land Tract Books. Revolutionary War Pension Political Collection, The Oklahoma City Chamber than 4,000 titles. Over 90 percent of newspapers Map Collections offer more than 15,000 and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, Com­ of Commerce Collection and the Oklahoma Federal published in Oklahoma are available. Included are maps dating from the 1700s to the present with piled Service Records of the Revolutionary War Writers' Collection which includes slave narratives. specialty publications such as Oklahoma foreign- an emphasis on Oklahoma and Indian Territories, and Oklahoma Confederate pensions are avail­ language, African American, and Socialist newspa­ the state of Oklahoma and surrounding areas. Fire able on microfilm. The Research Center offers American Indian Archives contain pers. The Oklahoman's digital archives are avail­ insurance maps, plat maps, historic maps, railroad access to popular subscription websites including records acquired by OHS in 1934. This collection able on computers in the Research Center. OHS and highway maps are also available. Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, includes not only the records of the Five Civilized continues to preserve present-day newspapers, Fold3 and the digital archives of The Oklahoman. Tribes - Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Musco- which span the state.

Lefi to Right: Dull Knife, Yellow Horse, Geronimo, Charles Wanda Parker, Daughter ofQiianah Parker, Chief of the Main Street Photo by North Losey, Oklahoma City, Okla­ Mrs, Robert Bough and Children, Alice Robertson Collection LeClair, Ponca, W.P. Campbell Collection Comanches, W.P. Campbell Collection homa Territory, Abe and Vicky Conklin Collection