Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)Corporate records arranged in five functional sub-groups of executive files; legal files; engineering records; property accounting; and real estate and industrial development records. Record series of the executive sub-group include minutes (1905-1915, 1947-1975); annual reports (1884-1908, 1915-1932, 1941, 1948-1975); subject files (1900-1984); monthly letters to the Board of Directors (1921-1972); correspondence (1913-1976); corporate files of associated railroads (1910-1975); liquidation files (1968-1984); and stock ledgers (1853-1864; 1906-1933). In the legal sub-group are: subject files (ca. 1925-1979); correspondence (1969-1976); contracts (1900-1910, 1930, 1950-1960); merger files-Union Pacific (1963-1975); merger files-other railroads (1920-1980); litigation files (1830-1960); legislation files-state level (1908-1920); and...

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Photographer and collector. Black and white original prints of railroads in Oklahoma, including scenes of depots, locomotives, rolling stock, bridges and track. The collection also contains photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns, industries, agriculture, businesses and mining activities.

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Physician. General correspondence (1906-1955); examination reports (1924-1944) of injured Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company employees; examination reports (1943-1950) prepared for the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare; correspondence (1929-1950) regarding Worker's Compensation cases; examination reports (1940-1949) for the Civil Aeronautics Administration; and day books and account ledgers from Kuyrkendall's practice in McAlester, Oklahoma. Also included in the collection are reprints of articles authored by Dr. Kuyrkendall.

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Collector. Newspaper clippings (1936-1947) relating to R.C. "Crockett" Lee; a typescript (n.d.) of an article on Lee by J.J. McAlester, grandson of Colonel J.J. McAlester; a list of officials of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad; and correspondence (1939-1946) to and from Lee concerning Oklahoma and national politics. Ottie Lee Photograph Collection also in repository.