Westfall, Chester H. (Chester Harold), 1892-1956

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Newspaper editor. Correspondence (1906-1924) to and from Weaver, regarding the prospects for and operation of a newspaper in Ada, Oklahoma, and regarding Ku Klux Klan activities, especially political activities, in Oklahoma.

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Oil man. A copy of "Sooners in the War" (ca. 1919), the official report of the Oklahoma State Council of Defense, of which Westfall was secretary, and seventy-five propaganda posters published by the U.S. government during World War I.

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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.

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Posters, full color and black and white, published in the United States and Europe, regarding wild west shows, traveling medicine shows, vaudeville acts, theatrical events, political elections, and the U.S. military. Also included are government propaganda posters, published in the United States, France and Italy during the first and second World Wars, regarding materials conservation, patriotism, liberty loans, military recruitment and other prominent wartime themes.