Greenslade, Rush, 1885-1963
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1885-06-24 - 1963-08
Biography
Buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Rush Greenslade gift
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1952-001
TU Benefactors, 1950 - 1975
File — Box 15: [Barcode: 000021986901], Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings and photocopies.
Dates:
1950 - 1975
Walt Whitman library, Undated
Collection
Identifier: 1954-002
Scope and Contents
The Tulsa Bibliophiles, or Tulsa Bibliophile club, was a group of like-minded men including John Ellinghousen, James Gourley, Rush Greenslade, V. J. Houston, John Bennett Shaw, and Edward J. Soph. They were committed to collecting all of the first edition works by Walt Whitman. In February of 1952, Greenslade and the others endowed the first rare book room in the north basement of McFarlin Library to house the Whitman Collection. In May of 1966 the Bibliophiles transferred title to TU of...
Dates:
Undated