Teachers -- Oklahoma

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Collector. Correspondence, teacher's certificates and examination scores, letters of recommendation, and tax receipts belonging to Charles L. Hollem, Anna Hollem's husband. All materials date from 1892 to 1901, except for souvenirs from Hollem's lumberyard, and letters describing Hollem's funeral in 1935. Hollem taught school in Oklahoma Territory and later owned Lawton's first lumber-yard.

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School teacher. Subject files (1913-1983) containing correspondence, diaries, family history, and school yearbooks relating to West's career as a school teacher, her student activities at Alva High School and Northwestern State Teachers College, Alva, Oklahoma, and her participation in organizations such as the Oklahoma Heritage Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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Teacher. Teaching contracts (1894-1926) for P.M. Danner from Arkansas, and Beckham and Caddo Counties, Oklahoma; and a land patent (1906), a warranty deed (1915) and clippings (1941-1945). Clyde Danner Photograph Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)The personal and professional papers (1913-2004) of University of Oklahoma economics professor Dr. Jim Eanes Reese and his wife, Norman public schools teacher Sarah Burton Reese, and their respective families from the Comanche, Texas, area. Of particular note are the many letters (1943-1944) exchanged between Jim and Sarah during World War II, when Jim served in the U.S. Navy as a gunnery officer in Hawaii. Also included are the personal and professional papers of J. R. (James Ryland) Eanes, who was a Texas state legislator and mayor of Comanche, Texas. In addition, the collection contains historical information on the Comanche, Texas, area; several Civil War-era letters (1861, 1865) from Eanes family members regarding military service in the Confederate States Army; and legal documents (1742-1753) from Goochland and Henrico counties,...

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Correspondence (1998-2000), and photocopied newspaper articles and other printed materials (1989-1999) regarding the life of Etta Roberts Hopson, a 1930 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences. Includes reminiscences of her days as a child in Indian Territory, as a student at the University of Oklahoma, and as an Oklahoma public school teacher, as well as notes on her friendship with the George H. Bush family of Texas. Also includes a brochure and photographs of the Round Barn in Arcadia, Oklahoma.

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Black and white original prints of Dr. Everett S. Lain including scenes of his medical offices in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

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Professor. Correspondence (1942-1945) from former students serving in the armed forces during World War II; journals (1904-1950) recounting her early experiences as an educator first in Mississippi and later in Oklahoma in the early days of statehood; Miller's teaching materials; and various clippings, poems, quotations, and sermons (1935-1968).

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Black and white copy prints of the students, faculty and campus of the Goodland Indian School near Hugo, Oklahoma. Goodland Indian School Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Black and white original prints of the students and teachers of the first school in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory.

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF) Teacher. White taught in Oklahoma and Wyoming at secondary schools, and at the Oklahoma Methodist University. Correspondence (1891-1952) includes her employment, her historical research, her investments in Montana real estate and oil in Oklahoma, and personal matters with family and friends. Teaching certificates and notes from college courses, thesis, and memorabilia from Park College. Journal (1891-1907) along with items from the Old Regime (Literary group) and miscellaneous personal items. Post cards, Christmas cards, address books, newspapers, pamphlets, and booklets. Interviews (1934-1942) that White conducted with elderly Indians in Tulsa, Oklahoma and with early settlers of the Oklahoma City area, along with others around the state. Some of these are typed, while all have the original notes. Notes on education in Oklahoma, especially the different...

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Black and white original prints of Norman and Orlando, Oklahoma Territory, including schools, school children, teachers, and businesses. Lida White Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

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Black and white copy prints of the towns of Jet, Enid, and Marshall, Oklahoma, along with those of Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma and Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

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Student. A high school diploma (1899) issued to Byrum by Greer County, Oklahoma Territory; an Oklahoma Teacher’s County Certificate (1907) and a teacher’s contract (1907) for Greer County, Oklahoma Territory.

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Black and white original prints of the Cherokee Male and Female Seminaries at Park Hill, Indian Territory. Includes members of the Cherokee tribal government, Cherokee students, and Tahlequah, Indian Territory.

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Teacher. Correspondence (1926, 1974-1989), newspaper articles (1982-1989), manuscripts (n.d.) and publications (1935-1987) by or about Travis D. Anthony and his stories based on life in rural Oklahoma, along with accounts of his student experiences at the University of Oklahoma in the 1930's. Travis D. Anthony Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Black and white original prints of the Lincolnville, Oklahoma school and teachers at a training course in Wyandotte, Oklahoma. Viola Mason Manuscript Collection also in repository.