Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This session was presented by Taylor Stober, collections specialist; Kimberly Ross, business manager; Bradley Fritch, education specialist; Kathy Kadavy, board president and lead project volunteer; all of Chisholm Trail Museum. It was part of “Perspectives in History”: The Oklahoma History Symposium. Officially donated to the Chisholm Trail Museum in 2018, the Eugene Meacham Collection includes thousands of images and negatives captured between the 1950s and 1990s. The photographs depict every phase of life in communities throughout Kingfisher County and the surrounding area. In 2020, efforts to digitize the collection to make it accessible to the public began through the support of the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board Improving Access Grant Program, with funding support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Over three years after digitization efforts began, staff, interns, and volunteers created a finding aid and scanned nearly 3,000 images. Since the creation of the finding aid, the public has used the collection for personal research and community gatherings such as high school reunions. The Meacham Collection provides an important visual representation of how progress has impacted the local community. This session will be a discussion with museum staff about utilizing a wide-ranging photography collection.
This session was presented by Taylor Stober, collections specialist; Kimberly Ross, business manager; Bradley Fritch, education specialist; Kathy Kadavy, board president and lead project volunteer; all of Chisholm Trail Museum. It was part of “Perspectives in History”: The Oklahoma History Symposium. Officially donated to the Chisholm Trail Museum in 2018, the Eugene Meacham Collection includes thousands of images and negatives captured between the 1950s and 1990s. The photographs depict every phase of life in communities throughout Kingfisher County and the surrounding area. In 2020, efforts to digitize the collection to make it accessible to the public began through the support of the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board Improving Access Grant Program, with funding support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Over three years after digitization efforts began, staff, interns, and volunteers created a finding aid and scanned nearly 3,000 images. Since the creation of the finding aid, the public has used the collection for personal research and community gatherings such as high school reunions. The Meacham Collection provides an important visual representation of how progress has impacted the local community. This session will be a discussion with museum staff about utilizing a wide-ranging photography collection.
