Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

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Cate served as Editor of Sooner Magazine and Assistant in Press Relations beginning December 1, 1936 and continued in those capacities until 1942 when he became acting Secretary of the Alumni Association, acting manager of the Oklahoma Memorial Union, and Editor/Manager of Sooner Magazine. In 1944 Cate became Financial Assistant to President George Lynn Cross. The administrative files, arranged alphabetically by subject, contain primarily advertising records, newsclippings and correspondence.

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)Included in the University Libraries are the records and publications of the Dean, Public Services, Western History Collections, Library Council, and the Library Staff Association. Publications include: "University of Oklahoma Libraries Bulletin" (1975-79); "The Baton: OU Libraries Newsletter" (1980-87); "Staff Information Bulletin" (1978-79); "?Library News?" (1991-); "Library Newsletter" (1976); "Library Staff Bulletin" (1959-79); Handbooks and Guides to the Libraries (1930-85); Architectural blueprints and plans (1928-82); and Scrapbooks of newsclippings (1951-56). Records include: Annual Reports (1963-73); Branch Annual Reports (1969-75); Departmental Annual Reports (1952-74); and Faculty Meeting Minutes (1968-85). Records and publications associated with the Dean include: Annual Reports...

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Actor. Business and personal correspondence (1937–1971); contracts (1961–1969); financial statements (1959–1969); greeting cards and records of legal cases (1963–1969); newspaper clippings (1936–1968); playbills (1934–1963); records of stock transactions (1964–1969); and telegrams (1932–1938) from the life and career of Van Heflin. The collection also contains materials related to his family members, including Frances Heflin and Vana O'Brien, among others.

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Physician. Clippings of Dr. Berry's column in the OKMULGEE DAILY TIMES; copies of the American Medical Association Delegates Handbooks and Program (1908); and a typescript memoir entitled "Experiences of a Pioneer Doctor in Indian Territory" in which Berry describes his medical practices in Chouteau, Oklahoma (1890), in Wagoner, Oklahoma (1891-1898), where he was the town's first physician, as physician to the Seminole tribe (1898-1901), and in Okmulgee, Oklahoma (1909-1947). Virgil Berry Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Physician. Patient account ledgers (1923-1938) from Dr. John's Hugo, Oklahoma medical practice; a diploma (1894); and a biography of Dr. John. Walter N. John Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Attorney. Typescripts of articles (ca. 1930-1940) from Mills' column"Hit or Miss" in the Arapaho Bee, which reflect on local and national political affairs.

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Government employee. Correspondence, memoirs, recollections, allotment records, Civil War papers, clippings and other materials relating to Indian Territory, reflecting Chaney's experiences while traveling through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations as clerk in charge of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Allotment Division of the Dawes Commission. Warren P. Chaney Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Physician. Personal and professional correspondence (1896-1953), including correspondence (1897-1949) from Tolleson's work as a company physician for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad; financial papers (1887-1949); medical school lecture notes (1894-1895); clippings (1925-1942) regarding medicine; and materials from Tolleson's Eufaula, Oklahoma medical practice, including equipment and supply catalogs (1928), registers of prescriptions (1929-1937) and patient account and appointment registers (1875-1942); posters (1895-1898) demonstrating 17th and 18th century medical practices; and certificates (1948-1949). William Alfred Tolleson Photograph Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)University of Oklahoma president. Personal and business correspondence (1910-1945), including correspondence from Bizzell's tenure as president of Texas A & M College, his association with Drury College and letters of condolence to his family upon his death; official correspondence (1925-1941) from Bizzell's tenure as president of the University of Oklahoma; University of Oklahoma Sociology Department lecture notes and class materials (1941-1943); correspondence, circulars, and reports (1941-1944) from Bizzell's tenure as a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, Kansas; reprints (n.d.); manuscripts of articles and speeches (n.d.) by Bizzell; correspondence (1940-1944) concerning Bizzell's publications; a genealogy of the Bizzell family; and class notes (1919-1920) taken by Bizzell while attending Baylor and Columbia Universities....

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Correspondence, financial and tax records, clippings, and family memorabilia (ca. 1905-1950) of William E. Hoskinson. The collection also includes a family history (1970) entitled "Thomas Bowen Hoskinson: Of Ohio, Texas and California" and hymnals (1873-1907). William Earl Hoskinson Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Author. Correspondence (ca. 1923) regarding the Bender family of Kansas, and the genealogy of families in Big Sandy Valley, Kentucky; notebooks (ca. 1854-1913) concerning the American Civil War, linguistics, William Quantrill, Kansas Indians, and Kansas history prior to the 20th century; clippings (ca. 1855-1900) concerning Kansas Indians and history; manuscripts (ca. 1902) concerning politics, Indian mythology, folklore, linguistics and Kansas history; pamphlets (1857-1925); and diaries (1858-1911) of Henry William Ela recounting his Civil War experiences, and of Connelley.

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Physicians. Correspondence (1860-1954); class notes (1912-1936); case histories (1937); annuals, diplomas and certificates (1912-1953); clippings (1914-1953); and medals and medical instruments, of W.L. McClure, a surgeon from 1923 to 1930 at Massachusetts General Hospital, and W.C. McClure, a faculty member from 1940 to 1953 at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. William Lionel and William Charles McClure Photograph Collection also in repository.

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U.S. Marshal. Correspondence (1901-1960) to and from William M. and Zoe Tilghman regarding family affairs, outlaws, Communist infiltration of the Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma, and poets and writers of Oklahoma; Tilghman's personal financial records (n.d.); manuscripts and typescripts (n.d.), including Tilghman's memoirs; publications (1843-1949) from the Poetry Society of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Authors' Club, the Women of '89 Club, etc., including a mid-nineteenth century etiquette book; programs (1903-1934) of various academic, social, charitable and religious organizations; clippings regarding outlaws; and showbills for western movies.

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Attorney and state senator. Printed materials (1926-1947) concerning the Oklahoma Farmers' Union and Franklin's political campaigns; copies of laws (1905-1945) drafted by Franklin; his speeches (1915-1916); newspaper clippings (1943-1957) containing his editorials; and some biographical material (1874-1958).

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Minister. A typewritten autobiography (1953) of the Rev. W. Vance Shook, a Methodist circuit-rider in Oklahoma, describing the churches he founded and pastored; newspaper clippings (1938-1957) regarding the death of Shook's wife, Lottie Lee, and the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Churches in Putnam City (Okla.) and at Eighth and Lee Streets in Oklahoma City; and publications (1918-1935), including a booklet regarding the history of the Methodist Church in Logan County, Oklahoma, and programs from the Putnam City and Eighth and Lee Streets Methodist Churches. William Vance Shook Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Activity, financial and administrative records (1931-1948), and correspondence (1920-1950) of the University of Oklahoma chapters of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.; and bibliographies, scrapbooks and clippings (1925-1950) relating to the organization and its programs.