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Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Spanish American War stereoscope cards, 1898-1899

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-033
Content Description

10 captioned views depicting the U. S. forces preparing to deploy to Cuba and the Philippines. Verso blank.

Dates: 1898 - 1899

Spartan School of Aeronautics photo album, approximately 1930s

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-061
Scope and Contents The Spartan School of Aeronautics photo album (comprised of 156 photographs pasted on 31 album pages), dates from the school's first years of operation and includes identified images of some of the pilots who trained there, including several of Mary Riddle, the first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license (1930). Others include Frank Wignall, who went on to a long career with the Federal Aviation Administration and Roy Hunt, famed stunt pilot, organizer of the Oklahoma Air Patrol...
Dates: approximately 1930s

"Story of Oil" HO gauge scale model kits, 1957, 1959

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-052
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of:

1. The Fabulous Story of Oil model oil field kit, Model #500, manufactured by Models of Industry Inc., Berkeley, CA; complete with handbook, instructions, and materials to build a drilling derrick with field equipment and men. 1957.

2. Model Oil Refinery Kit, Model #600, manufactured by Models of Industry Inc., Berkely, CA; complete with handbook, instructions, plans and materials for building a simple oil refinery. 1959.

Dates: 1957 - 1959

The Life of The Right Honourable Arimanes...compiled from notes ancient and modern oriental and occidental, approximately 1770

 Collection
Identifier: BT980-.L54-1770z-Oversz
Scope and Contents ..., Typhon, Thammuz, Beelzebub, Ashmodaus, Sammael, Daemon, Lucifer the Great, of the dark infernalempire Count of Sheol and Gehenna, Baron of Hades &c., &c., &c. compiled from notes ancient and modern oriental and occidental. An entirely holograph history of Lucifer, wherein the anonymous author tells us in his Preface, “Lucifer ... is a spiritual being. That is true; but far from being considered here in that light, he is represented plainly terrestrial. He is not...
Dates: approximately 1770

Traveling circuses photo album, approximately 1930s-1940s

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-048
Scope and Contents Collection of b/w circus snapshots primarily featuring performers (trapeze artists, clowns, elephant and horseback riders) behind the scenes, set-up crews and animal handlers, as well as circus company trains, transport caravans, and circus animals (camels, elephants, horses, dogs). Many photos bear handwritten notes about location, date and/or the performer's name on verso; several are stamped with the Peoria and Decatur, Illinois addresses of circusiana hobbyists Roy Frietsch and Bert...
Dates: 1930 - 1940

United Business Interests of the Aviation Industry Progress Dinner, 1929

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-040
Scope and Contents

Souvenir program from the Progress Dinner of United Business Interests to the Aviation Industry, held under the auspices of the National Exchange Club at the Hotel Commodore, with accompanying speech typescripts and seating roster. The dinner celebrated pioneers in the field of aviation, including Amelia Earhart and the crew of the Question Mark aircraft.

Dates: 1929-01

Vernon S. Grabill WWI correspondence

 Item
Identifier: 2001-035
Content Description

15 letters and postcards from Vernon S. Grabill (Regt. 301, Battalion C, Heavy Tanks, American Expeditionary Forces) to his cousin, Lillian Singer (Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL).

Dates: 1918 - 1919

"Wallace" WW I-era photographs, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-054
Scope and Contents Exercise notebook made into a photo ablum. Although the originaly ownership of the exercise note book is in question, the name/initials that appear on verso of many of the photos is Wallace A.S. or WAS. 61 photographic images. Originally mounted in a brown "The Universe; Open to the World" school exercise note book (8-1/4" x 6-7/8"), with lined paper. Photographs are of the 'snapshot' variety. Subjects include soldiers, places, trains, etc. Some appear to be post-war, and most are captioned...
Dates: 1918 - 1919

Walter Oswald "Toby" Watt WWI-era photographs, 1914-1916

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-045
Scope and Contents

Photograph album consisting of 126 original captioned photographs capturing Walter Oswald "Toby" Watt's service in the French Aeronautique Militaire.

Dates: 1914 - 1916

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Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I. 5
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World War, 1914-1918 -- France 5
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, American 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 4
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- World War, 1914-1918. 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- United States. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
Aircraft industry 2
Cookery -- Early works to 1800. 2
Kelly Field (Tex.) -- Photographs 2
Nurses -- Training 2
Photograph albums. 2
Photographs -- Oklahoma. 2
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Cookery. 2
Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War II 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, French 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, British 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, United States 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photographs 2
Acrobats 1
Aeronautics 1
Aeronautics -- Oklahoma 1
Aeronautics, Military -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History 1
Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- History 1
Air Pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography 1
Airplanes -- Design and construction 1
Airplanes -- Maintenance and repair. 1
Airports -- Oklahoma 1
Antiaircraft artillery -- United States -- History 1
Armed Forces 1
Arrest records 1
Beverages 1
Biography -- Fiction 1
Board games. 1
Brest (France). 1
Cemeteries -- New Hampshire 1
Cherokee Indians -- Education 1
Cherokee Indians -- History. 1
Cherokee Indians -- Missions. 1
Cherokee Indians -- North Carolina 1
Circus -- Photographs. 1
Circus -- United States. 1
Circus performers -- United States. 1
Clowns. 1
Cobh (Ireland). 1
Communications, Military. 1
Confectionary 1
Cookbooks. 1
Daily Mirror (London, England). 1
Destroyers -- Warships -- United States. 1
Devil -- Fiction -- Early works to 1800. 1
Education -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa. 1
Europe -- Politics and government. 1
Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century. 1
Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.). 1
Flight training -- Technological innovations. 1
Fort Leavenworth (Kan.). 1
France -- Description and travel. 1
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800 1
Hebrew Language -- Dictionaries -- English 1
Indians of North America -- Montana 1
Indians of North America -- Photographs. 1
Indians of North America. 1
Kelly Field (Tex.) -- History. 1
London (England) -- Description and travel. 1
Military decorations -- Great Britain 1
Military hospitals. 1
Military nursing -- Great Britain 1
Military nursing -- United States 1
Munition workers -- United States 1
Navy-yards and naval stations, American. 1
Newton Lower Falls (Mass.) -- History 1
Oklahoma -- History. 1
Osage Indians. 1
Paris (France) -- Description and travel. 1
Petroleum -- History. 1
Petroleum -- Prospecting. 1
Petroleum -- Refining. 1
Petroliana. 1
Photographers -- Canada. 1
Photographers -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century. 1
Photography -- History. 1
Ponca Indians -- Photographs. 1
Postcards -- World War I. 1
Powers (Christian theology) -- Demons -- General works. 1
Prisoners of war -- 1910-1920. 1
Public schools -- Oklahoma. 1
Queenstown, Ireland (Naval Base). 1
Reader's Digest. 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
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