James Brooks Ayers Robertson Collection
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
- Creation: 1903-1938
Creator
Extent
4 Cubic Feet (4 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Unknown. Method of acquisition--Unknown; Date of acquisition--1962.
Subject
- Andrews, Thomas Galphin, 1882-1942 (Person)
- Barnard, Kate, 1875-1930 (Person)
- Derr, Frank A., 1874-1950 (Person)
- Haskell, Charles Nathaniel, 1860-1933 (Person)
- Hoffman, Roy, 1869-1953 (Person)
- Lafayette, Ben F., 1859- (Person)
- Madsen, Christian, 1851-1944 (Person)
- Marland, Ernest Whitworth, 1874-1941 (Person)
- O'Brien, Joe, 1887-1943 (Person)
- Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 (Person)
- Robertson, Alice, 1854-1931 (Person)
- Thomas, Elmer, 1876-1965 (Person)
- Trapp, Martin Edwin, 1877-1951 (Person)
- Turner, Martin Luther, 1863-1921 (Person)
- Westfall, Chester H. (Chester Harold), 1892-1956 (Person)
- Williams, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1868-1948 (Person)
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Grand Lodge of Oklahoma (Organization)
- Oklahoma. National Guard (Organization)
- Oklahoma. Constitutional Convention (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1906-1907).) (Organization)
- Russell Industrial Homes (Oklahoma City, Okla.) (Organization)
- United States. National Guard (Organization)
- Democratic Party (Okla.) (Organization)
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- : Oklahoma. (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Monnet Hall, 3rd Floor
630 Parrington Oval
Norman Oklahoma 73019
405-325-2904
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
