Chilocco History Project

Items

• Two students in colorful Native dress holding blankets
  Color photo of two young women in Native dress.
• Man long jumping at an event
  Man performs long jump as bystanders watch.
• Group pictured sitting on porch, June 1909
  Four smiling women in long skirts and high necked shirts sit on the steps of a building, one with a small child by her side. Three men, two with hats on, sit in chairs directly behind them, and another woman stands off behind the men.
• Home 3
  Home 3 of Chilocco shown with a horse drawn carriage off to the side.
• Three men on steep embankment
  Three men in hats stand at the top of a steep embankment near a parked automobile looking down on fence line made of tree branches and wire between them and a small body of running water.
• Clarice Henderson, portrait, 1973
  Postmaster Clarice Henderson seated at a table in a dress with a name tag.
• Campus Entrance Arch
  Chilocco Indian Agricultural School entrance arch.
• Students at dance in barn--Photo 8
  Delores Little on left and Shirley Howerton on right are sitting in a buggy. Delores Little was a Cherokee from Borger, Texas. Her vocation was Pre-Nursing. Shirley Howerton was a Seneca from Wyandotte, OK. Both were involved in choir, drill team, pep club, FHA, and sextet, among other activities. Both of them were in the class of 1957.
• Five mule and horse teams
  Five teams of mules and horses, each manned by two men, are pulling plows to break up the dirt at a construction site.
• Bloomsbery
  Bloomsbery, of Company C Student Infantry, is in uniform with a rifle slung over his shoulder, wearing a helmet and glasses.
• Students gathered outside class
  A group of nine students talk and laugh with one another outside a door labeled 'CLASS.'
• Girls' quarters at Home 4
  Ivy-covered frontside of stone building with two staircases leading to porch, photo labeled 'Chilocco Home 4 - Quarters for Girls'.
• Ramona Jenkins, Beulah Pope, taken 1940
  Two women (Ramona Jenkins and Beulah Pope) stand in front of a bus with luggage in the foreground. Ramona Jenkins was a Cherokee from Del Norte, Colorado and a senior in 1940. Beulah Pope was a Chickasaw from Marlow, Oklahoma and a senior in 1940.
• Track athletes jumping hurdles at a meet—Photo 1
  Two athletes jump hurdles at a track meet in front of a crowd of bystanders.
• Ten women and children drinking on bench outdoors
  Group of ten women and girls sit on a fence shaded by a tree, enjoying beverages from glass bottles.
• Kenneth Moore at the edge of a trampoline, 1973
  Kenneth Moore resting his hands on the edge of a trampoline.
• Guidance staff, group photo
  Guidance staff as pictured around and on the stairs. First row, left to right: Virginia Narcomey, Juanita Robinson, June Kirkland, Ethel Lavers, Melva Anquoe, Virgil Harjo. Second row: Patty Martin, Beth Andrew, Leroy Bacon, Thelma McCarty, Harriette Washington, Evaline Gomez, Gene McConnell. Third row: Minnie Mzhickteno, Minnie Johnson, Harold Burris, Jack Foster, Sam Tolth, Faye Hathcoat. Fourth row: Carriasco McGilbra, Phil Smith, Lucille Bearskin,. Left wing, bottom to top: Mabel Jones, Esther Snell, Lorena DeRoinn, Evangeline Pipestem, John Snel, Ada Bendle, Mary Means. Right wing, bottom to top: Benjamin Cornell, Nancy Lambert, William Beaver, Nelson Rowe, Kenneth Black, Dorothy Crawford, Edwin James.
• John Snell in front of a Dr. Pepper machine, 1973
  John Snell is sitting in front of Dr. Pepper machine.
• Young man with hammer and nails on construction site
  A workman nails a wooden framework together on a construction site at the Chilocco campus.
• Girls' basketball team in a huddle during a game
  The Chilocco Varsity Girls' Basketball Team huddle around their coach on their home court during a timeout as fans and students look on from the stands.
• Lunch at NAIWA
  Speakers stand behind a podium at the NAIWA (National American Indian Women's Association) Convention. People sit at tables on either side of the podium, eating lunch.
• Livestock shelter in pasture
  Rickety stick and thatched roof shed constructed for livestock is shown in a pasture with a metal building surrounded by farm equipment in the background.
• Joe Herrin and Mr. Dunagan sitting at a table
  Joe Herrin and Mr. Dunagan sitting at a table. Back of the photo reads: '-L-R- Mr. Joe Herrin, Mr. Dunagan.'
• Original Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, Newkirk, Oklahoma
  The original Chilocco Indian Agricultural School as pictured near Newkirk, Oklahoma.
• Parade, September 1912—Photo 3
  Two different sheet covered trailers pulled by horses have four people standing on each trailer with their backs to the camera while facing risers full of people.