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Brown-Wilcox Family Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-2550

Scope and Contents

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A genealogical and historical collection which pertains to the Brown-Wilcox family as well as the history of Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma, and western Oklahoma. The Brown-Wilcox Family Papers Collection consists of 87 volumes (notebooks) of copied documents, including recollections, letters and cards, poems, essays, newspaper clippings, stories, drawings, invitations, obituaries, bulletins, business cards, political posters, certificates, programs, recipes, legal documents, land records, sale bills, histories, diaries, military records, coats of arms, telegrams, speeches, catalogs, calendars, and photographs, all relating to the Brown-Wilcox family. An index to the collection entitled "Indices of Our Volumes" arranged by volume number, page number, type of material, date and author is kept with the inventory to the collection. "Indices of Our Volumes" also includes family trees.

Dates

  • Creation: 1809-1994

Restrictions on 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.

Available for public access.

Extent

5 Cubic Feet (5 ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Leo F. Brown and Alice Preston Jones Brown.

Description rules
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Repository Details

Part of the Western History Collections Repository

Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States