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Merchant. Correspondence (1902-1948) rergarding the death of Thompson's son in France during World War I, and the controversy regarding a new townsite for Walters, Oklahoma; publications (1913-1919) regarding Oklahoma's role in the American war effort during World War I; programs (1936) of the Wichita Mountains Easter Pageant; certificates (1885-1920); and a scrapbook (n.d.) and a typescript of a speech (n.d.) by Thompson regarding the origin and early years of Walters, Oklahoma. Alfred M. Thompson Photograph Collection also in repository.

Businessman. Correspondence (1893–1916) concerning lead and zinc mining in Oklahoma, the automotive business in Baxter Springs, Kansas, and real estate holdings, along with a program (1881) of a funeral service for Lucy Grey.

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Typescript of a lecture (n.d.) entitled "Progress and Development of Missouri Since 1860 from Gleenings Here and There" presented to the Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; yearbook (1927) for the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812 for Oklahoma; and programs and clippings (1930-1955) concerning Korn and her various club activities. Anna Lee Brosius Korn Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Programs (1937-1958) of the yearly reunions of graduates of Cherokee seminaries; a report (1955) regarding the old Murrell Home in Tahlequah, Oklahoma; a report (1953) regarding New Echota, Georgia; a publication (1954) of the Cherokee Foundation, Inc., entitled Tsa-La-Gi' Ga-Nah-Se-Da'; an undated list of freedmen granted Cherokee citizenship; and memorials (1883-1899) of the Cherokee Nation and its delegation to the U.S. Congress. Anne Ross Piburn Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Investment broker. Correspondence (1875-ca. 1950) of the Robert James Edwards and J.S. Handy families; business correspondence (ca. 1890-ca. 1945) from Edward's investment securities firm, R.J. Edwards, Inc., including University of Oklahoma dormitory and memorial Union building bonds (1946-1948); and concert and theatre programs (1928-1987) from musical and theatre productions throughout the United States, particularly in Oklahoma City and at the University of Oklahoma.

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Railroad developer. Correspondence (1888-1941) to the Turpins regarding family and personal affairs; reports (1934-1938) of the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs; newspaper clippings (1916-1941); cancelled checks (1913-1918); and programs (1909-1938) of various organizations, including the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs, the New Century Club, the Edelweiss Club and the Clinton (Okla.) Literary Club. Carl J. Turpin Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Clippings, programs, and a souvenir booklet, all from Hennessey, Oklahoma. Charles Anderson Nothstein Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Information regarding the United States Army 33rd Infantry Association, including newspaper clipings (1937-1938), bulletins (1936), a membership roster (n.d.), an annual reunion event program (1943) and a booklet published by the association, a veterans' organization composed of members of the battalion. The battalion, the majority of whose members came from Indian Territory, was organized for special service during the Philippine Insurrection and existed from 1899 to 1901.

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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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Music instructor. Poem (ca. 1924) regarding the South Canadian River; programs (1917-1928); and clippings (1941-1945) regarding World War II.

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Businessman. Financial papers (1883-1929) concerning Sohlberg's association with early Oklahoma City business interests, especially the milling industry; publications (1882-1939) regarding the release of popular movies, and the status of aviation in Thailand (ca. 1920); programs from the 1914 season of the Overholser Theater of Oklahoma City, and the 700th birthday celebration of the city of Berlin, Germany; a maintenance manual (1919) from the Cole Motor Car Company; bank notes (1857) issued by a Nebraska bank; and certificates (1909-1934) issued to Sohlberg and others. George Gustar Sohlberg Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Physician. General correspondence (1893-1940), financial records (1902-1937) and personal writings of Taylor; two scrapbooks, one of his school days, and one containing postcards; biographical materials; minutes and programs (1898-1935) of the Athenaeum Club of El Reno, Oklahoma; and personal artifacts including locks of hair, pins, beadwork, and a cloth napkin.

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Publicist. Professional correspondence (1928-1992), personal correspondence (1922-1987), personal records (1903-1987), author subject files (1900-1984), typescripts and manuscripts (1938-1986), publications (1928-1987), financial records (1930-1993), and memorabilia from the life and career of Harold Keith, author of children's stories Rifles for Watie, and Boys' Life of Will Rogers; and former sports information director of the University of Oklahoma. Also included are programs (1930-1970) of University of Oklahoma athletic events, and correspondence (1942-1946) from University of Oklahoma students and alumni, mostly athletes, serving in the United States Armed Forces during World War II, to Harold Keith and members of the University of Oklahoma Athletic Department.

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Material from Bass's participation with the Oklahoma Civil War Centennial Commission, including general correspondence and correspondence regarding Abraham Lincoln (1962-1965); subject files regarding Civil War historical sites, events and personalities; and programs received from other state commissions. Also, Bass's travel diaries (1943-1966); correspondence (1933-1936) to and from patriotic societies; correspondence (1935-1940) from J. Edgar Hoover regarding conferences on crime; speeches (1935-1940) by Hoover; and reports from conferences regarding crime. Henry Benjamin Bass Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collectors. Travel brochures (ca. 1920-1940); post cards; greeting cards; calendars (1892-1908); books (ca. 1920-1930), including cookbooks and do-it-yourself guides; and printed material (ca. 1900) from the University of Oklahoma, including directories and programs. Jesse and Helen Biggers Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Ledgers (1919-1928) in which the daily business of the H. Warner Newby Rooming House in Oklahoma City was recorded; programs (1909-1910) from the University of Oklahoma Class of 1910, the Senate Literary Society and the Zetaletheans; and the commencement program (1905) from Logan County High School, Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory.

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Missionary. Legal and other records (1894-1928) of the Rev. Murrow's home and school for Indian orphans, including a monthly report for the school, records of Bacone College, and of the newspaper"The Indian Orphan"; Murrow's original certificate of appointment as superintendent of Indian missions in Indian and Oklahoma Territories; minutes and proceedings (1916-1918) of the Indian Missionary Association and Osage Indian Mission; and programs (1912-1921) for meetings of the Deacons' and Missionaries' Institute of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Baptist Churches, and of the Oklahoma Indian Baptist Association.

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Soldier. Correspondence (1946-1953), newspaper clippings (1944-1953) and published materials, including magazines and event programs regarding his posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the renaming of Enid Army Air Field in his honor, and the dedication of a dormitory at the University of Oklahoma, all in recognition of his wartime achievements. The collection also includes correspondence (1933-1945) regarding his father's death, as well as letters from his parents while Vance attended the University of Oklahoma. Leon Robert Vance Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Publications and programs of the P.E.O. Sisterhood and state meetings, the Alternate Saturday Club of Pauls Valley (1917-1925) and the Music Club of Pauls Valley (1917). Lucile Oliver Stone Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Editor. A personal account book (1935-1938), cards, programs and directories, including the yearbook (1948-1949) for the Elliot Lee Chapter (Pauls Valley, Oklahoma) of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and directories (1949-1951) for Oklahoma State Writers Inc., all belonging to Mary Giles Paine. Mary Graham Giles Paine Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Musician. Correspondence, clippings and programs, arranged by state, from Dr. Montgomery's association with the National Federation of Music Clubs, as president and as their representative to the United Nations.

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General correspondence (1917-1935), and financial records (1923-1932) from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch in Marland, Oklahoma; and general correspondence (1908-1932), legal papers and contracts (1908-1932), daily expense reports (1926), programs (1908-1932), route schedules (1910-1929), and scrapbooks (1908-1926), from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show. Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Civic organization. Correspondence (1913-1946); minutes (1904-1951); account books (1903-1915); minutes of the Round Table Section (1904-1907); program calendars (1928-1950); yearbooks (1904-1988); clippings (1956-1978); and copies of "History of Mountain View" (1970), from the Mountain View (Oklahoma) Twentieth Century Club.

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Material from Lawton, Oklahoma's Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, including a script of the pageant "'Neath August Moon" (1951), a copy of "Lawton Golden Anniversary, 1901-1951" (ca. 1951), copies of the "Lawton Constitution" (1951), programs (1951-1952); and the yearbook (1952) of the Lawton Pioneer Club, Inc.

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Collector. Complimentary card (1883) to a carnival ball in New Orleans; and a program (1903) of the Sulphur Chautauqua at Sulphur, Indian Territory.

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Invitations, clippings, programs and directories from various clubs, including the University of Oklahoma Faculty Club, the University Women's Club, the Y.W.C.A., the Girl Scouts, and the Red Cross, all collected by Mrs. Collums, whose husband was director of housing at the University of Oklahoma. Margaret Collums Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Profit-sharing certificates (1906) issued by Sears, Roebuck and Company; and a souvenir program (1922) from the 70th Anniversary celebration of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company held in McAlester, Oklahoma, including a history of the railroad in the area and of North and South McAlester. Mrs. Howard Struble Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Homemaker. Typescripts (1893-1950), including the Statement of Intent of the Grant County (Oklahoma) Film Library, and concerning the history of the Grant County Historical Society and of the Medford, Oklahoma Methodist Episcopal Church; programs (1950-1953, 1967) of the Medford Methodist Church, and of various women's civic groups in Medford; minutes (1966-1968), publications (1952-1968) and governing board reports (1965-1967) of the United Methodist Church's Oklahoma Conference Ministry to the Deaf. Nina Phillipi Pond Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Professional association. Program, sign-up sheets, and membership lists from the first annual meeting of the Oklahoma Association of College History Professors.

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Initiation ceremony programs (1930-1988), the constitution and by-laws (1965), newsletters (1985, 2000), annual meeting materials (1984-2000), and membership forms and correspondence (1984-1997) of the Oklahoma chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi.