Veterans -- Oklahoma

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Veterans organization. Awards, bulletins, and committee reports (1946–1950); correspondence (1946–1950); financial records (1946–1950); minutes of meetings (1944– 1950); membership applications (1946–1949); and scrapbooks (n.d.) of the University of Oklahoma American Legion post.

The records consist of the following: Correspondence and general files of the post’s officers, arranged by subject; unclassified materials including the post record of membership applications, minutes of meetings, financial papers, and the official seal of the post; printed matter, including American Legion college materials; three scrapbooks; a transcribed radio program; certificates of award; and photographs.

Black and white copy prints of Arapaho, Clinton, Corn and Thomas, Oklahoma. Also included are scenes of agriculture, dust storms, funerals, houses, churches, and schools. The majority of the collection deals with the Mennonites in Washita County, Oklahoma.

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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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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.

Black and white copy prints of Dewey County, Oklahoma. Includes scenes of the towns of Camargo, Taloga, Seiling and Putnam, along with images of farming, transportation, homesteads, businesses, and personalities.

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Collector. Artifacts and printed materials (1934–1952) from E. B. Martin’s service as post commander of American Legion Post #35, and his career with the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company. Also included in the collection are souvenirs from the 1933–1934 Chicago World’s Fair, and the Oklahoma State Fair.

Black and white original prints of the J.A. Powers and C.P. Hamilton families of Mangum, Oklahoma. Also includes the Hamilton Hardware Store and a parade of Confederate Veterans at Mangum. Mrs. C.P. Hamilton Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Black and white original prints of Arapaho, Oklahoma Territory and state, including photographs of businesses, street scenes, parades, and a reunion of Union and Confederate Army veterans.