September 29 – November 20, 2005
Special Exhibition Gallery
Featured vintage photographs of women rodeo performers from the collection of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Over four decades, Ralph Russell Doubleday, a freelance photographer, pictorially recorded and documented the history of both big and little rodeos, their events, activities, specialty acts, and personalities. During the “Golden Age of Sport” (1919-1929), cowgirls and the sport of rodeo flourished and evolved. Female athletes from the United States enjoyed increased opportunities to compete during the 1920s.
