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World War, 1914-1918

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Lieutenant Guynemer and his plane, “Vieux Charles.” World War I. Original print, 2 x 4., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Mary Edna Burditt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-2581
Scope and Contents

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General correspondence (1892-1972) between members of Edna Lewis Burditt's family, including letters received from Burditt's cousin, William Lewis, while principal of Farris Public School, Farris, Oklahoma, and during army training at Camp Travis, Texas; public school report cards (n.d., 1912-1913); Garvin County teacher's contract (1924); a copy of The East Centralite, Ada, Oklahoma (1919); various news and magazine clippings; handwritten school notebook (n.d.); and school text books including Ray's Elementary Arithmetic and several revised editions of McGuffey's Eclectic Reader.

Dates: 1879-1980

Men gathered around a balloon. Picture caption: “Inflating a French sausage balloon. Allied aviation, World War I. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 34
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Mrs. Clifton Marion Mackey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1899
Scope and Contents

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Correspondence between Alice Hurley Mackey and her brother, Patrick J. Hurley, and correspondence with Herbert Hoover, Henry Luce, Franklin Roosevelt and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, regarding Hurley's duties as national attorney to the Choctaw Nation, and as a Colonel during World War I, as Secretary of War during the Hoover Administration and as a U.S. ambassador during World War II. The collection also includes Hurley family memorabilia and genealogical information.

Dates: 1900-2004

Oklahoma City Boy Scout Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-2589
Scope and Contents

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Correspondence (1918-1920) to Oklahoma City Scoutmaster Thomas Rowe by former boy scouts while Rowe was in the U.S. Army during World War I.

Dates: 1918-1920

Raymond Stallings McLain Collection

 Collection — Drawer 8613
Identifier: WHC-M-395
Scope and Contents

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U.S. Army officer. Correspondence (1929-1954) concerning McLain's personal and business affairs; orders, memoranda, reports (1920-1937) and correspondence (1939-1940) from McLain's service with the Oklahoma National Guard; speeches (1947-1954) made by McLain as Chief of Information of the U.S. Army and as a member of the National Security Training Commission; typescript account (n.d.) by McLain of his participation as commander of the 45th Division Artillery in the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II; and a typescript account by McLain of the 45th Division Artillery's role in the Battle of the Aisne (1918) in World War I.

Dates: 1912-1987

Shelled buildings along a street in Chateau-Thierry, France. World War I. Original print 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 58
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Shows cannon and depth bombs aboard U.S. yacht, Rambler. Other ships in background. A World War I photo. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 43
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Soldiers camouflaging a road near Livry (Marme) during World War I. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 48
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Stone bridge rebuilt with timbers, France, World War I. Caption: “Bridge at Chateau-Thierry blown up by the Americans.” Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 56
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

The desolate landscape and empty shell of “The church at Albain St. Nazaire (P. of C.)” France-World War I. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 52
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Three biplanes similar to #39. Two are parked beside hangars. One is in field with engine running. Pilot is in cockpit. World War I Allied aviation. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 40
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Troop train leaving Okemah with Okfuskee County selectees who saw service in WWI., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-37, Item: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Okfuskee, Indian Territory and Okemah, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, including street scenes, views of businesses, cotton marketing, and outlaws.

Dates: undated

Troops clearing a street after the destruction of battle in World War I. Caption reads: “Streets in Noyon mined by Germans.” Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 53
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Two photos: two men and a woman on horseback – three men in uniform, probably WWI., undated

 Item — Box Photo K-31, item: 229
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Chickasha, Indian Territory; Mountain Park, Cooperton, Roosevelt, Cold Springs, Newkirk, Enid, Hobart and Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Also photographs of farming, businesses, railroads, and the oil industry. Also scenes of Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians with photographs of Delos Lone Wolf, Geronimo and Quanah Parker.

Dates: undated

Two views of World War I soldiers. First: soldiers sitting on a log construction. Second: soldiers standing in a chow line., undated

 Item — Box Photo N-7, Item: 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Norman and Cheyenne, Oklahoma Territory and state. Also photographs of Drumright and Broken Bow, Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma, cowboys, businesses, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians.

Dates: undated

Walter Stanley Campbell Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-84
Scope and Contents

Professor. Personal correspondence (1897–1957); correspondence with Campbell’s relatives (1822–1896); correspondence with publishers and literary agents (1920–1958); literary manuscripts (circa 1914–1957); diaries, notebooks, and journals (1901–1926); and business papers (circa 1925–1959) regarding Campbell’s writings on the West, Indians, and Oklahoma, with emphasis on transportation, fortifications, cowboys, wars and battles, criminals and outlaws, and American Indian chiefs, along with original Indian art by Carl Sweezy. [Boxes 104 through 121 of this collection are available online at the OU Libraries website.]FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Dates: 1800-1964

Winter scene of World War I French heavy artillery and troops in the snow. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 47
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

Women dancing at celebration in honor of the return on Dakota Soldiers from World War I. The shoulder capes are decorated with shells that are very heavy. July, 1919., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-17A, item: 444
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color original prints from the life and career of anthropologist and Indian advocate Betty Rosenthal, and her parents, Episcopal missionaries the Reverend David W. Clark and Elizabeth Mann Clark. The collection contains photographs of Navajo, Sioux, and other American Indians and Episcopal Church activities at Gallup and Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico; Rosebud Reservation, Fort Thompson, Rapid City, and Crow Creek Agency, South Dakota; and Good Shepherd Mission at Fort Defiance, Arizona. Episcopal churches in Batavia and Geneseo, New York, are also pictured. Members of the Clark family, their friends, American Indian community leaders, and church associates appear in many of the photographs. Individual names include Robert L. Bennett, Philip Deloria, the Right Reverend George H. Kinsolving, the Reverend Baptiste Lambert, James A. McGrath, and David Warren. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

World War I biplane in a field. Pilot stands beside the plane. Frame buildings in background. Somewhere in Europe. “Theda Bara” on side of plane. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 37
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I biplane tipped on its nose in a field near a wheeled platform somewhere in Europe. Cable fastened to the tail. Two men beside the wings. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I French troops in a front line trench. Shows sandbags, weapons and wooded crates. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 61
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I German aircraft plant. Planes with dented noses, dilapidated wheels and flat tires. Scratched in English on a fuselage: “spare parts. Test.” Original print, 3 x 6., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I German aircraft plant showing fuselage with corrugated covering, a German innovation during the war - used in other countries during the ‘20s and ‘30s. Original print, 3 x 5., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I German airplane in a field beside a barracks and shed. Picture caption: “Plane abandoned by Germans.” Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I. Photo caption: “French tank leading attack along the Marne.” Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 46
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I photo of bridge at Mousson. One end of bridge has been destroyed and rebuilt with timbers. Houses and public buildings are along the river. Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 51
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I photo of U.S. graves in Europe. Caption: “U.S. cemetery at Belleau Wood.” Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 45
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated

World War I photo showing rubble and earth piled in foreground and damaged buildings in background. Caption reads: “Bridge at Chateau-Thierry blown up during German advance.” Original print, 2 x 3., undated

 Item — Box Photo B-29, item: 59
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the Butcher family butcher shop in Oklahoma City, of the Apache chief, Geronimo, and of the San Francisco earthquake. Also includes scenes from World War I. W.H. Butcher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated