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Arthur W. Evans Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1770

Scope and Contents

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Collector. Correspondence (1906–1968); certificates (1891–1918); and news clippings (1928–1939) regarding University of Oklahoma president Arthur Grant Evans, federal funding for schools in Indian Territory, the issue of separate statehood for Oklahoma and Indian territories, and Evans’s participation in the United States’ propaganda effort in World War I; a typescript regarding the history (1816–1831) of the Presbyterian church and missions in the eastern Cherokee Nation; a diary (1887) of A. G. Evans; and original records (1830–1857) of the New Echota Church in the Cherokee Nation, as recorded by Samuel A. Worcester, church clerk. Arthur W. Evans Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates

  • Creation: 1830-1968

Creator

Extent

.66 Cubic Feet (.66 ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Arthur W. Evans and Arthur Grant Evans.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Evans, Arthur W. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1976.

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Western History Collections Repository

Contact:
Monnet Hall, 3rd Floor
630 Parrington Oval
Norman Oklahoma 73019
405-325-2904