Virgil Berry Collection
Scope and Contents
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Physician. Clippings of Dr. Berry's column in the OKMULGEE DAILY TIMES; copies of the American Medical Association Delegates Handbooks and Program (1908); and a typescript memoir entitled "Experiences of a Pioneer Doctor in Indian Territory" in which Berry describes his medical practices in Chouteau, Oklahoma (1890), in Wagoner, Oklahoma (1891-1898), where he was the town's first physician, as physician to the Seminole tribe (1898-1901), and in Okmulgee, Oklahoma (1909-1947). Virgil Berry Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1895-1953
Creator
- Berry, Virgil, 1866-1954 (Person)
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
.5 ft. (.5 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Virgil Berry.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Berry, Virgil. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1953.
- Brown, John F., 1843-1919
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hospitals -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hospitals -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hospitals -- Oklahoma -- McAlester Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hospitals -- Oklahoma -- Okmulgee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Medical care -- Oklahoma -- Wagoner Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Medical care -- Oklahoma -- Wetumka Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Medical care -- Oklahoma -- Wewoka Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Medicine -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Medicine -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Memoirs Subject Source: Ftamc
- Physicians -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Physicians -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians -- Crime Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians -- Economic conditions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians -- Medical care Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Surgery -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Surgery -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Wewoka Trading Company
- 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
