Guy Bradford Treat Collection
Scope and Contents
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Railroad official. Correspondence (1925-1947); reports (1906-1955); minutes (1954); financial records (1918-1946); maps (1904-1955); and publications (1909-1955) regarding the operations, financial status and policies of railway companies in central and southeastern Oklahoma. The companies include the Oklahoma Railway, the Oklahoma City Railway, the Metropolitan Railway, the El Reno Interurban and the Norman Interurban. The collection also contains correspondence (1947) regarding the liquidation of the Oklahoma City streetcar system, and the development of the Diamond Dishwasher Company (1925). Guy Bradford Treat Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1903-1955
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
4 ft. (4 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Guy Keith and the Treat Estate.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Records: Source of acquisition--Keith, Guy and the Treat Estate. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1980.
- Banks and banking -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bridges -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Diamond Dishwasher Company (Okla.)
- Dishwashing machines Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- El Reno Interurban Railway Company (Okla.)
- Electric railroads -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Finance -- Oklahoma -- McAlester Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- First National Bank of McAlester (Okla.)
- Guthrie-Edmond Electric Railway Company (Okla.)
- Maps Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Metropolitan Railway Company (Okla.)
- Minutes Subject Source: Ftamc
- Norman Interurban Railway Company (Okla.)
- Oklahoma City Railway Company
- Oklahoma City and Suburban Railway Company
- Oklahoma Railway Company
- Pittsburg County Railway Company (Okla.)
- Railroads -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reports Subject Source: Ftamc
- Street-railroads -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Street-railroads -- Oklahoma -- Norman Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Street-railroads -- Oklahoma -- Oklahoma City Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Treat, Guy Bradford, -1980
- 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
