Robert E. Cunningham Oklahoma history collection, 1856-1997.

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Robert E. Cunningham Oklahoma history collection, 1856-1997.

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The collection reflects the collecting activities of Robert E. Cunningham and chronicles the development of Oklahoma through an assemblage of negatives, photographs, documents, and other archival materials. Subject areas include images from the 101 Ranch by Vince Dillon, the settlement of Guthrie, Perry and Stillwater, Indians, film stills from the 1960 movie "Cimarron," the petroleum industry, Oklahoma State University, and land runs. Other collection subjects include: Billy McGinty, outlaws, Pawnee Bill, Otto Gray, Oklahoma schools and towns, trains and railways, Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, and early Oklahoma photographers such as Vince Dillon, A.A. Forbes, and W.S. Prettyman.

35.2 cubic feet (32 glass plate negative boxes, 1 lantern slide box, 2 record boxes, 14 document boxes, 6 flat boxes, 15 photo binder boxes, 2 filmstrip boxes, 5 microfilm boxes, 1 ferrotype box, 3 file cabinet drawers, 10 oversized folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7771706

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