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The Rancheros Visitadores Collection contains materials related to the riding group Rancheros Visitadores and its trail rides, including schedules, organization publications, invitations, and member correspondence. The majority of the correspondence is addressed to artist Joe De Yong, and a photograph of De Yong is included in the collection. The collection also contains an oversized watercolor, ink, and graphite panel.

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This small collection features several poems by Ray Vigil.

Abstract Papers and photographs of rodeo performer and researcher Reba Perry Blakely, which include extensive correspondence with the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and fragmentary correspondence with several rodeo personalities, subject files connected with various writing and research projects, some of Perry’s articles in manuscript and printed form, and over 60 photographic images, mostly copy prints associated with her writing projects. Some correspondence connected with her research and writing...

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This small collection contains a single sheet of letterhead from the R.M. Bruchman Indian Trader business.

Abstract Cunningham, photograph collector and Stillwater photographer, chronicled the development of Oklahoma through his historical acquisitions and personal photographs. Cunningham’s collection records Oklahoma’s development from 1883 through the 21st century. The collection contains an extensive assemblage of negatives, photographs, documents and other archival materials. This description reflects the collection's documents and other archival materials. The photographic elements can be searched on...

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The collection is comprised of 47 historic photographs featuring people and places in the American West.

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This collection of archival materials document the style and work of Robert K. Abbett, contemporary sporting and wildlife artist. His oil portrait of actor James Stewart hangs in the Western Performers Gallery.

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This collection contains 1,532 rodeo photographs featuring contestants such as Casey Tibbs, Larry Mahan, Fox Hastings, Freckles Brown, and 310 other rodeo participants and animals.

Abstract This collection consists of more than 200 saddle and tack catalogs dating from the late-1880s through the mid-1980s. It also includes saddle and tack related ephemera such as price lists, order forms, company envelopes, and advertising materials. Manufacturers featured in the collection include Edward H. Bohlin, Fred Mueller Saddle & Harness Co., George Lawrence Co., Hamley & Co., Hermann H. Heiser Saddlery, N. Porter Saddle & Harness Co., S. D. Myres Saddle Co., and Visalia...

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This small collection consists of one photograph of a cattle round-up in the Osage Nation.

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This small collection contains four photographs and two copy negatives. All of the photographs represent Sam Garrett, mostly of him trick roping. Debbie Reynolds is represented in one autographed photograph.

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The Papers contain original photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, and two date books owned by Ella Privett Linton with occasional entries about her daily activities while working for a circus. There are also copy photographs and negatives taken by Charlsie Poe, and the resulting books: World Champion Cowboy: Booger Red by Charlsie Poe and Texas Cowboys: Memories of the Early Days edited by Jim and Judy Lanning.

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Bumgardner is a storyteller and cowboy poet of Texas history, cowboys, and tall tales. This small collection contains a publicity photograph and promotional articles.

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This small collection consists of three photographs of Will Rogers and Wiley Post.

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This collection is comprised of a single cabinet card from c1890 featuring Sioux girls at an Indian School in Pierre, South Dakota.

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This collection contains photographs and emphemera related to actor and performer Smiley Burnette.

Content Description The Smith Western Movie Stills is comprised of 431 photographs, 4 publicity magazines, 1 Wild West Stars magazine, 1 article concerning Bill Elliott, and a letter from Lewis H. Smith. The majority of the photographs are film stills and publicity photographs from western movies.The Stills are arranged by actor, and then by film they played in. Any description labeled “unknown” means there is no movie identified on the film still. Only two film stills have been digitized, and they...

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Former rodeo bull riding champion of the 1930s and 1940s Smokey Snyder collected a number of photographs that were also printed alongside feature stories about the Pendleton Round-Up in The Oregonian. These photographs, with their newspaper clipping bylines taped or glued on the reverse side, feature events of the round-up from 1937-1953.

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Graham is cowboy musician and singer who was raised on a farm in the Midwest. This small collection contains a publicity packet whick includes several of his original cowboy poems.

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Along with personal papers, pamphlets, booklets, research notes and sketches, the Tom Lovell Papers contain approximately 16,000 negatives, photographs, and transparencies. The collection also contains numerous tearsheets of Lovell’s illustrations and paintings. Scrapbooks and folders in the collection contain the tearsheets of other illustrators.

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The Tom Mix Publicity Photographs is comprised of 143 photographs of Tom Mix. They range from movie stills to published behind-the-scenes images.

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This collection contains materials relating to the operation of Trailside Galleries and the Flood art world. It includes letters, photographs, advertising, exhibition catalogs, sales information, and newspaper clippings.

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The Troy Fort Collection consists of six photographs of Troy Fort, three of which show him calf roping in rodeos.

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This collection contains two photographs of Fritz Truan. Both photos are mounted on matte board. One is black and white, while the other is color. The both photographs are by DeVere Helfrich.

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The Verne Elliot Collection is a scrapbook containing photographs of rodeo contestants and events.

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This small collection contains two publicity stills of cowboy poets and singers, Curly Jim Musgrave & Richard Olsen.

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The Walter Brennan Papers contains scripts, photographs and personal files of the actor. This collection contains 314 scripts, 1,338 photographs, 46 awards, and 7 personal scrapbooks related to his career and personal life.

Abstract The subject files, photographic materials, Rodeo Hall of Fame and Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Championship Awards invitations and London rodeo research were Willard Porter’s office files while employed at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. The collection contains rodeo photographic postcards, rodeo programs, subject files and research on the 1924 and 1934 London rodeos. In addition to the rodeo photographic postcards, 62 passport photos from the 1924 and 1934...

Abstract Portfolio of 50 American Indian photographs by William E. Irwin, a photographer active in Chickasha, Indian Territory in the 1890s and early-1900s, whose images document the Chiricahua Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa who lived near Anadarko, Indian Territory and Fort Sill. The collection consists primarily of portrait photographs, but images that document aspects of late 19th century American Indian life and material culture are also included. Notable persons pictured in the collection include...

Abstract The papers and photographs of William F. Reese a contemporary post-impressionist artist and art instructor whose work embraces landscape, portrait, still life, animals and wildlife, and scenes of the contemporary west. This collection covers a relatively narrow slice of Reese’s career, with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1980s. Most of the collection documents the writing, design, and production of the 1984 Mary Balcomb book William F. Reese, which was published by Reese’s own...