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This Poem was sent to Photo Gallery by Judy Wood.

STRANGERS IN A BOX
Come, look with me inside this drawer
In this box I' ve often seen,
At the pictures, black and white
faces proud, still, serene.
I wish I knew the people
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
are lost among my socks.
I wonder what their lives were like
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where or when,
These faces of my heritage
would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of pictures we take today?
The faces and memories
Someday to be passed away?
Make time to save your stories
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
Anonymous Author

Is this tin type Jesse James or a family relative? Curtis Wall cwall@3rivers.net  Family Name Description Date Town County Alcorn Three Men - Arnett Ellis or Harmon Bailey Anti Horse Thief August 12, 1909 Hickory Grounds - Barker Elk City Children 1920's Elk City Beckham Beaty Skelley Oil Co. 15 men Dec.20, 1930 OKC Oklahoma Bell 3 Photos 1880's Woodville Pickens/Marshall Bingham Woman in Long Coat 1890-1900 - LeFlore Bocock/Knapp Photos from Album  - Miscellaneous Okla Territory Burger Burger Postcard - El Reno Canadian Burnett, Wright 4 Burnett Men Lg.Group Pic -. Man & Woman -. Man & Woman Thelma ? - abt 1913 ca. 1910 abt 1940 - - ?Hart Hart - - - Pontotoc Pontotoc - - Carter - Girls   Ardmore Carter Casey Estelene - Frisco Township McCurtain Clark Cassie Clark? - Dewar Okmulgee Cockrell, King Family Pic Family Pic King Baby King Family King Descendants Matilda's Sister&Family - - - - - - Loveland Loveland Hinton - - Norman Tillman Tillman Caddo - - Cleveland Cole - Woman Post Office - - Edmond Athoma OK Co. - Condley, Dodd, McElroy, Walker Mr. Walker and Della May McElroy Dodd 1949 Coalgate Coal Covey, Phelps 3 -s photos - - - Costen or Lewis? Young woman - - Unkown DeHart, Beck - couple - Caddo Indian Territory Downs Drilling Rig abt.1937 Oklahoma City Oklahoma Duckworth Miners abt. 1907-8 Okmulgee Okmulgee Dye Thought to be Hiram Dye abt.1908 Altus Jackson Elsten, Cornforth, Johnson Lady - - - Fisher - boy - man - couple - - - Platter Platter Platter Bryan Bryan Bryan Fitzpatrick, Williams Little Boy&Girl @1930's - Grady ? Fitzpatrick, Williams - Family late 1800's - Caddo/Pickens Fitzpatrick, Williams Young Lady - - Caddo/Pickens? Ford, Hendricks, Hickman, Laughlin Indian man with woman - LeFlore I.T. Graham, Davis Graham and Davis? - - LeFlore Francis (contributor) Man with Cow 1920's Buffalo Washita Hayes, Morgan, Harris, others. Ladies Society 1920's Chickasha Grady Hicks, Ellison Family Photo Family Photo 2 - - - Holiday, Jordan 15pictures - old - - Hoffman Geneva Hoffman - Blackwell Kay Howard, Barnes Oil Rig - - - Hunnicutt Ruby K and - man 1930's Hanna McIntosh Hurd, Burns Fort Gibson Personnel 1946 Muskogee Muskogee Jimerson, Finnell - Sibling 1920's Earlsboro Pottawatomi Johnson Vance Motor Company, Chevrolet Garage  1934 Ponca City Kay Jones Family Photo - - - Jones or Floyd The Ripley Bunch - Ripley Payne Jordan, Lown Unidentified Young Man 1900? El Reno Canadian Keck Men in Automobile bef. 1950 Poteau or Shady Point LeFlore Keck Keck Family with others 1950's Shady Point LeFlore Knight Southern National Bank 1910-1914 Wynnewood Garvin Lang Friends of Willy Lane 1900 -1910 Stillwater Payne Little, Price, Jones, Osborn Price/Little Ranch 1908 Ramona Washington McCray - man and boy 1915 - Garvin McElroy Theodore William's family   Jennings Pawnee Moss, Goodhue? Moss Family Edith Goodhue? - Enid? Garfield Newberry, Pearce Unidentified Baby - - - Phelps The Modern Grocery - Antlers Pushmataha Pope / Wright - portrait - Antlers Pushmataha Privett, Tucker Three - Ladies about 1910 Hominy Osage Purdy (confirmed identity) Mr & Mrs Purdy - Coalgate Coal Seybold, Cloud 3 Family Pics - - - Smoot, Coffman Friends From Steedman - Steedman Pontotoc Sollers, Samples, Murphy, Meehan, Wheeler, Smith Two Cute Kids 1920's or 30's - Jackson, Beckham, or Rodger Mills Rhoads, Palmer Girl Friends - Beggs Okmulgee Spurgeon, Boyd East Side Grocery 1890-1900's - - Story Possible friend 1910 Elk City Beckham Stunkard Russell and Bernard about 1907 Tulsa Tulsa Taylor - Boy - Waurika? Jefferson? Cassady-Thayer Horseman - - Lincoln/Ok Timken, Gerken Folks With Buggies - - - Thompson Family Portrait - Woodward Woodward Truscott Leta Truscott - Maud Seminole Weir, Croddy Folks in Ardmore I.T. - Ardmore Indian Territory York Mail Truck - - Pontotoc? - - Man - Hartshorne Indian Territory