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Oklahoma. National Guard

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

C. B. Clark Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-3137
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Ku Klux Klan activities and meetings in Oklahoma and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The collection also includes photographs of drawings of Tishomingo, a Chickasaw war chief, and of John Coffee.

Dates: 1832-1925

Charles Nathaniel Haskell Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1620
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of the inauguration of Oklahoma governor Charles N. Haskell and the barbecue celebration which followed the inauguration. The collection also includes a scene of the Sequoyah Convention. Charles Nathaniel Haskell Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1903-1907

Colonel Roy V. Hoffman, first lieutenant of the Oklahoma National Guard which was founded in Chandler, O.T., in 1898. Photo taken 1890’s. Studio portrait. Negative, 5x7., 1898

 Item — Box Photo S-3, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Davenport and Shamrock, Oklahoma and Perry, Stroud, and Chandler, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of cotton marketing, streets, railroad construction, the Oklahoma National Guard and tornado damage at Chandler.

Dates: 1898

Don Sporleder Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1515
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Davenport and Shamrock, Oklahoma and Perry, Stroud, and Chandler, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of cotton marketing, streets, railroad construction, the Oklahoma National Guard and tornado damage at Chandler.

Dates: 1893-1910

Frank M. Canton Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-905
Scope and Contents

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Lawman. Canton's correspondence while a U.S. Deputy Marshal and Oklahoma Adjutant General; reminiscenses of his experiences in Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Alaska; newspaper clippings about his experiences and related artifacts. Also contains autobiographical material on Canton.

Dates: 1886-1928

James Brooks Ayers Robertson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-526
Scope and Contents

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Governor of Oklahoma. Correspondence (1906-1938) regarding the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention of 1906, the condition of the state after World War I, and the Okmulgee County trial incident; publications (1906-1925), including "Referendum News" and the "Oklahoma Odd Fellow"; clippings (1914-1938); scrapbooks and notebooks (ca. 1938) regarding Robertson's political career; speeches (n.d.) by Robertson regarding his positions on prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment, the Oklahoma Department of Pardon and Parole, and his inauguration; and condolence cards (1938) received by Robertson's family upon his death. The collection also includes gubernatorial Special Order No. 11 (1922) regarding the membership of Oklahoma National Guard officers in the Ku Klux Klan. J.B.A. Robertson Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1903-1938

Lt. W.O. Watts, National Guard Troops (?) in background

 Item — Box Photo Box M-40, item: 65
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes a scene of Alfalfa Bill with the Oklahoma National Guard during the Red River Bridge War with Texas, the inauguration of Alfalfa Bill, the Oklahoma National Guard at Fort Sill, U. S. Army airplanes, and the Murray family and colonists in Bolivia.

Dates: 1880-1970

National Guard at target practice, Ft. Sill, Okla.-c. 1931

 Item — Box Photo Box M-40, item: 66
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes a scene of Alfalfa Bill with the Oklahoma National Guard during the Red River Bridge War with Texas, the inauguration of Alfalfa Bill, the Oklahoma National Guard at Fort Sill, U. S. Army airplanes, and the Murray family and colonists in Bolivia.

Dates: 1880-1970

Oklahoma Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and his mobilized National Guard troops at Red River during the Bridge War with Texas-1931. Truby Studio, Durant, Okla.

 Item — Box Photo Box M-40, item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes a scene of Alfalfa Bill with the Oklahoma National Guard during the Red River Bridge War with Texas, the inauguration of Alfalfa Bill, the Oklahoma National Guard at Fort Sill, U. S. Army airplanes, and the Murray family and colonists in Bolivia.

Dates: 1880-1970

Raymond Stallings McLain Collection

 Collection — Drawer 8613
Identifier: WHC-M-395
Scope and Contents

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U.S. Army officer. Correspondence (1929-1954) concerning McLain's personal and business affairs; orders, memoranda, reports (1920-1937) and correspondence (1939-1940) from McLain's service with the Oklahoma National Guard; speeches (1947-1954) made by McLain as Chief of Information of the U.S. Army and as a member of the National Security Training Commission; typescript account (n.d.) by McLain of his participation as commander of the 45th Division Artillery in the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II; and a typescript account by McLain of the 45th Division Artillery's role in the Battle of the Aisne (1918) in World War I.

Dates: 1912-1987

Street scene, looking north on Broadway from First Street, in Davenport. The street is crowded with National Guardsmen who were switching trains in Davenport, as did all who traveled by rail in Lincoln County at the time. The guards performed many quadrilles to the delight of the residents. Davenport was a railroad “Queen City” center. Davenport, Oklahoma. August 31, 1910. Copy print, 5x7. Negative, 5x7., 1910 August 31

 Item — Box Photo S-3, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Davenport and Shamrock, Oklahoma and Perry, Stroud, and Chandler, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes scenes of cotton marketing, streets, railroad construction, the Oklahoma National Guard and tornado damage at Chandler.

Dates: 1910 August 31

University of Oklahoma Archives, Roscoe Simmons Cate, Jr. editorship records, RG12/04

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-U-3526-1
Scope and Contents

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Cate served as Editor of Sooner Magazine and Assistant in Press Relations beginning December 1, 1936 and continued in those capacities until 1942 when he became acting Secretary of the Alumni Association, acting manager of the Oklahoma Memorial Union, and Editor/Manager of Sooner Magazine. In 1944 Cate became Financial Assistant to President George Lynn Cross. The administrative files, arranged alphabetically by subject, contain primarily advertising records, newsclippings and correspondence.

Dates: 1937-1942(inclusive)

Weapons and ammunition belonging to members of Okla. National Guard—c. 1931

 Item — Box Photo Box M-40, item: 61
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes a scene of Alfalfa Bill with the Oklahoma National Guard during the Red River Bridge War with Texas, the inauguration of Alfalfa Bill, the Oklahoma National Guard at Fort Sill, U. S. Army airplanes, and the Murray family and colonists in Bolivia.

Dates: 1880-1970

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Type
Collection 7
Archival Object 6
 
Subject
Correspondence 4
Photographs 3
Business enterprises -- Oklahoma 2
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
Hotels -- Oklahoma 2