Seaver family album
Scope and Contents
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 through the 1970s. The ephemera is comprised of press cuttings from Oklahoma newspapers and magazines and a variety of brochures and government publications, all of which is arranged alphabetically by subject.
The Tulsa Maps collection was designed to give a place for otherwise contextless maps.
The basis of this collection is the remnant of the McFarlin Library Reference Department vertical files which were kept from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The collection consists of press cuttings from Oklahoma newspapers and magazines and a variety of brochures and city and state government publications. Additional material is added as acquired.
Dates
- Creation: 1864 - 1991
Creator
- From the File: Wassam, D. E. (Photographer, Person)
Access
This material is open for research use by any registered reader.
Biographical / Historical
William Rufus Seaver, born 27 Nov 1881 in Ellsworth, Kansas; died Jan 1967; married Flora A. Copple on 19 May 1915. The Seaver family resided in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
From the File: English
Subject
- Seaver, William Rufus, 1881-1967 (Person)
- Seaver family (Family)
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives Repository
McFarlin Library
University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th St
Tulsa 74104-3123 USA
(918) 631-2496
speccoll@utulsa.edu