Oklahoma State University

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Historical materials relating the two of the first students of Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University).

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Photocopied Biographical newspaper article by Dr. Berlin B. Chapman for the Stillwater Newspress, 27 Apr 1988. James Homer Adams was the first student to enroll at Oklahoma A and M College in Dec 1891. Arthur Wesley Adams was the first graduate of the College in Jun 1896.

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Photocopied newspaper article. Includes a typed and signed note from B.B. Chapman to members of the Adams family at bottom plus copies of James Homer's and Arthur Wesley's Oklahoma State University diplomas.

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Photographic reproduction of an image of three men. Don A Roberts was the son in law of Arthur Adams.

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Photograph of Arthur Wesley Adams, first graduate of Oklahoma A&M, sitting in a chair.

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Studio portrait of Homer Adams, first student to enroll at Oklahoma A&M.

Scope and Contents From the File: An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...