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Boomers in Oklahoma



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    Breaking land in Oklahoma

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    Photo of two men with oxen plowing a field.

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    Boomers in Oklahoma [Men, women, and children crossing field in oxen-pulled covered wagons]

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    Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.

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  • Stoneman's Station

    Stoneman's Station

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    Storage and operations at Stoneman's Station, Virginia; including stacked barrels, gunny sacks and wood, men in horse drawn wagons and tents. There are large downed trees in the foreground of photo. Title on mount: Stoneman's Station Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 43.

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    Scene of men with horses and wagons resting in a field.

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