Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)Soldier. Letters (1941-1944) from Daniel C. Jones to his mother, Mrs. Cecelia Jones, Kent, Ohio, during the time period of April 19, 1943 through April 6, 1944. Daniel Jones was in military training at the Army Air Forces Technical School at Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina (April-June 1943), at Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, Colorado (August-September 1943), and at Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (October 1943-April 1944). Jones' letter describes his basic training, daily routine, family relations, and kidney and psychological problems including visits to the hospital, an operation, and his eventual medical discharge. The collection also includes one letter dated October 8, 1941 from an unidentified airman, who was at the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This letter describes in detail the aeronautics course he...

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Journalist. Correspondence between Fisher and numerous authors regarding their contribution to literature and their thoughts concerning their prominent works. Daniel G. Fisher Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Physician. Newspaper clipping (1919) concerning Dr. Daniel Morris Hailey's death and a book entitled "Confederate Veteran Association of the State of Oklahoma" (McAlester, Oklahoma, 1916). Daniel Morris Hailey Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Memoirs of Daniel O'Dell's years as a member of David Lewis Payne's community of settlers determined to homestead in the Oklahoma Territory's Unassigned Lands; legal documents and correspondence from various members of the Boomer movement including Samuel Crocker and Samuel H. Radebaugh, 1882-1905; and an 1883 journal kept by Hattie L. Coe while in Poughkeepsie, New York.

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Minutes and year books (1914-1957) of the Black Beaver Chapter (Norman, Oklahoma) of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Politician. Correspondence regarding Boyer's term in the Oklahoma State Senate, a political appointment for his son Wilfred (1931), and his own appointment as Senate Auditor (1933). Dave H. Boyer Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Photocopies of articles (1920–1960) concerning Governor Ernest W. Marland and Lew Wentz; a photocopy of a speech (1932) by Marland regarding money trusts; and a college history class paper (1968) by Burns, entitled “Characterizations of E. W. Marland.”

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Labor leader. Printed reports (1951-1956) relating to a welfare and retirement fund for miners; handbills (n.d.) relating to miners' organizations; two printed copies of a speech (1952) by the United Mine Workers of America president; and two issues (1957) of the "United Mine Workers Journal.".

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Correspondence from University of Oklahoma alumni and political figures to University of Oklahoma president David L. Boren regarding OU events and history; artifacts and a scrapbook regarding OU sports and OU history; an OU commencement address by Sam Nunn; and publications regarding OU history and OU personalities. The collection also contains items such as a set of photograph printing plates of OU administrators and professors; a U.S. flag bearing 46 stars; an engineering student's set of drafting tools; photographs of OU president emeritus Joseph Brandt, and of the bombed Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City; and printed programs of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.

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Colonist. Typescripts of news articles from Kansas, Missouri and Indian Territory newspapers, and also from historical journals, regarding the life of David L. Payne, his leadership of the Boomer Movement, and his attempts to colonize the Oklahoma Territory before the U.S. government opened it to settlement.

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Banker and physician. Correspondence (1947-1948) and clippings (1938-1939) regarding Richardson's medical career, as well as his service as an Okahoma banking official; publications (1906-1939), including telephone directories (1906-1907) for Union City, Oklahoma Territory; and magazines and journals, including "Harlow's Weekly" (1928) and "The Oklahoma Banker". David Phillip Richardson Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Attorney. A copy of Milsten’s Howdy Folks (1938), the official Will Rogers poem.

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University of Oklahoma president. Correspondence (1899-1943) of Dr. Boyd regarding the establishment of the University of Oklahoma, and Boyd's tenure as its first president; speeches (n.d.) delivered by Boyd; newspaper clippings (-1957) regarding Boyd and the University; employment contracts (1892) between Boyd and the University's Board of Regents; certificates (1903-1924); obituaries and memorials (1936-1937); genealogies of the Boyd and Ross families; programs (1900-1909); songs, music and posters (1902-1907) from the University. Also included is a manuscript by Mary Alice Boyd, daughter of Dr. Boyd, describing the Boyds' years in Arkansas City, Kansas, and in Norman, Oklahoma. David Ross Boyd Photograph Collection is also in repository.

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University professor and attorney. Correspondence and legal papers (1961-1972) of Swank in his role as University Legal Counsel, along with printed materials relating to his legal research and teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

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A black-and-white original print of the American Library Association library at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma.

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Black-and-white original and copy prints of businesses, parades, and street scenes in Chelsea, Oklahoma, and steam shovels from the Bushyhead and Chelsea coal companies. Also included are numerous class photographs from Chelsea schools and Chelsea high school sports teams, and family portraits, and school and church scenes in Alluwe, Oklahoma. Other scenes depict railroads, floods, bridges, and the oil industry in Oklahoma, the ranch owned by Will Rogers’ parents near Chelsea, and a stone memorial erected in Rogers’s honor in Oologah, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black-and-white copy prints of University of Oklahoma alumnus Lloyd E. Dean in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Mary Elizabeth McAfee in Collinsville, Oklahoma; and Elmo McAfee near the Pryor and Claremore areas of Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

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A black-and-white original print of Dr. S. C. Dean in a horse-drawn buggy.

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Business. A sales catalog (1938) describing and illustrating casket models offered by the DeCamp Consolidated Glass Casket Company.

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Black and white original prints of the DeCamp Consolidated Glass Casket Company of Muskogee, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of a stockholders' meeting. DeCamp Consolidated Glass Casket Company Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Black-and-white original prints of glaciers and mountains in Colorado, and land formations near Clayton, Overbrook, and El Reno, Oklahoma, and the Arbuckle Mountains. Photographs of fossils and dinosaur bones are also included. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Librarian. Newspaper articles (1981–1985) by Dee Ann Ray regarding the history of Clinton and Cordell, Oklahoma; a copy of the “Pioneer Edition” (1984) of the Cordell Beacon; and a copy of the “Anadarko Oil and Gas Appreciation Edition” (1982) of the Clinton Daily News.

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Amateur songwriter. A collection of nineteen musical compositions written, arranged and privately published by Foster.

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A manuscript allotment list (1867) prepared by the federal government when the Delaware Indians moved from their reservation in Kansas to settle along the Caney River in Indian Territory; and a printed Delaware allotment list published in 1874.

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Linguist. Research notes collected by Owl regarding the Cherokee language and syllabary. Della Brunsteter Owl Photograph Collection also in repository.

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One letter from former U.S. Marshal Chris Madsen (1937); a proclamation by Territorial Governor Cassius M. Barnes welcoming New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt; reprint of a publication entitled "Opening of Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands in the Territory of Oklahoma"; a program of the Roosevelt Rough Riders Reunion of 1900 in Oklahoma City; a typescript entitled "Oklahoma Criminals with a History, 1889-1933"; a magazine entitled"Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" (1899); a key to Oklahoma City, dated 1900; and one textbook entitled "The American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster.

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Black-and-white original prints of Frank L. Dennis and classmates at the University of Oklahoma. Included are photographs of the campus and campus events, fraternities, sororities, athletic events, and Norman, Oklahoma. Personalities in the collection are Carleton Ross Hume, John Jacobs, Savoie Lottinville, Harold Keith, and Hal Muldrow. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Indian Chief. Correspondence, annual messages, memoirs, autobiography, proclamations, and other papers relating to political matters in which Bushyhead was involved as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1879-1887 and as a representative to the Dawes Commission, and relating to the controversies growing out of the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association's operations.

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Philosopher. A handwritten manuscript for a book by Snider entitled"A Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson" published by the William Harvey Miner Company of St. Louis in 1921.

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A booklet entitled "Over the 'Moffat Road' to the Top of the World" by Tom Jones.