Patrick Jay Hurley Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
Black and white original and copy prints of Patrick Jay Hurley's career as United States Assistant Secretary of War and Secretary of War, special presidential representative to the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, and United States Ambassador to China during World War II. The collection contains scenes of Hurley with Joseph W. Stilwell, Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung, Chiang Kai-shek, Douglas MacArthur, Claire Lee Chennault, and Herbert Hoover. Also included are photographs of Secretary of War Hurley's inspection tours of United States military installations, suppression of the Bonus Army riots in 1932, Hurley with Japanese military representatives, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amon Carter, Will Rogers, Chester Nimitz, Jonathan Wainwright, Henry Stimson, William Halsey, Bacone College and the towns of McAlester, Oklahoma and Phillips, Indian Territory. Patrick J. Hurley Manuscript Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1900-1956
Creator
Restrictions on Access
Open for public research.
Extent
1100 items (1100 items)
Language of Materials
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Ruth Wilson Hurley.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photoprints: Source of acquisition--Hurley, Ruth Wilson. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1970.
- Adams, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1927-
- Airplanes Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bacone College
- Battleships Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bonus Expeditionary Forces
- Carter, Amon Giles, 1879-1955
- Chen, Jiageng, 1874-1961
- Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975
- China -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Chou, Cho-jou
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Coal mines and mining -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Communism -- Japan Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Destroyers (Warships) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Halsey, William F. (William Frederick), 1882-1959
- He, Dingsheng
- He, Guoguang
- He, Yingqin, 1890-1987
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
- Hurley, Anna
- Hurley, Josephine
- Hurley, Pierce
- Hurley, Ruth Wilson, 1895-1984
- Hurley, Wilson, 1924-2008
- Ibn Sulaymān, ʻAbd Allāh, 1887 or 1888-1965 or 1966
- Jiang, Weiguo, 1916-
- Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937
- Lin, Tze-han
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
- Mackey, Alice (Abigail Alice), 1893-1979
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
- McAlester (Okla.) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Moseley, George Van Horn, 1874-1960
- Nelson, Donald Marr, 1888-1959
- Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Phillips (Indian Territory) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Phillips (Okla.) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973
- Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Steamboats Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946
- Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
- United States -- Army -- Infantry -- Drill and tactics Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army -- : Artillery -- : Drill and tactics.
- United States. Army. Cavalry -- : Drill and tactics.
- United States. Navy -- : Officers.
- Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953
- Wedemeyer, Albert C. (Albert Coady), 1896-1989
- White, Mary Hope, 1930-1982
- Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Zhang, Junheng, 1872-1927
- Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976
- Zhu, De, 1886-1976
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
