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Walter Stanley Campbell Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-84

Scope and Contents

Professor. Personal correspondence (1897–1957); correspondence with Campbell’s relatives (1822–1896); correspondence with publishers and literary agents (1920–1958); literary manuscripts (circa 1914–1957); diaries, notebooks, and journals (1901–1926); and business papers (circa 1925–1959) regarding Campbell’s writings on the West, Indians, and Oklahoma, with emphasis on transportation, fortifications, cowboys, wars and battles, criminals and outlaws, and American Indian chiefs, along with original Indian art by Carl Sweezy. [Boxes 104 through 121 of this collection are available online at the OU Libraries website.]FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Dates

  • Creation: 1800-1964

Conditions Governing Access

On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.

Open for public research.

Extent

77 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

Gift of Walter Stanley Campbell

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Campbell, Walter Stanley. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1951.

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Description rules
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Language of description
English
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Repository Details

Part of the Western History Collections Repository

Contact:
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Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States