Interviews
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Carol K. Rachlin Collection
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Anthropologist. Correspondence, interviews, research notes and reprints relating to Rachlin's research on the Sac and Fox and the Shawnee. Also included are field notes from her archaeological research on the weaving of the mound builders.
Carter Blue Clark Collection
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Historian. Photocopies of articles from Ku Klux Klan journals such as "Kourier Magazine" and "Imperial Night-Hawk" many dealing with the Klan in Oklahoma; newspaper articles on the Klan in Oklahoma; papers relating to Oklahoma Governor Jack Walton and the Klan; various Klan pamphlets, handbooks and interview typescripts with Ira M. Finley, Albert S. Giles and Leon Hirsh regarding the Klan in Oklahoma. C.B. Clark Photograph Collection also in repository.
Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection
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Transcripts of interviews with pioneers who took part in the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma, with accompanying township maps showing the homesteads of settlers. The collection also includes historical and cultural information about the Indian tribes, including the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw) and Ponca, that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip. The final part of the collection consists of correspondence and field notebooks written by Orville Stanley Smith and Theodore H. Barrett during an 1871 survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation in Dakota Territory. Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Photograph Collection also in repository.
Jack Bell Collection
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Journalist. Manuscripts and galley proofs of books by Bell, including "The Johnson Treatment" "Mr. Conservative: Barry Goldwater" and "The Splendid Misery." Typescripts of interviews with Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. Also, Bell's correspondence with various political figures, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Everett Dirkson, Barry Goldwater, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward M. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, William Proxmire, Douglas MacArthur, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Harry S. Truman, and Adlai E. Stevenson. Includes newspaper articles written by Bell on various subjects. Jack Bell Photograph Collection also in repository.
Lewis Jefferson Moorman Collection
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Physician. Typescripts of oral history interviews (1936-1937) conducted with the W.P.A.-sponsored Indian-Pioneer Oral History Project; correspondence (1924-1953) concerning real estate transactions, Moorman's research on tuberculosis and Native American health, and various aspects of his medical career, including connections with the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine; and a stock certificate (1909) from Epworth College of Medicine (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).
Lida White Collection
Nahum Ellsworth Butcher Collection
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Sales representative. A transcript of an interview conducted by Frank A. Balyeat with Butcher, the first freshman enrolled at the University of Oklahoma (1893), recounting his experiences at the University and as superintendent of the West Norman (Oklahoma) schools.
Tonkawa Public Library Collection
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Typescripts of interviews and news articles with pioneers and army officers from the area around present-day Tonkawa, Oklahoma, regarding U.S. Army operations, Indians, and the settlement of the region. Tonkawa Public Library Photograph Collection also in repository.
Velma Nieberding Collection
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Historian. Typescripts of interviews conducted by members of the Ottawa County (Oklahoma) Semi-Centennial Committee with Ottawa County pioneers, describing settlement of the area, early businesses, social activities and interaction with the Indians of the area.