The Tim O'Brien manuscripts consist of laser copy drafts of the short stories, “Ambush” (published in Boston Magazine, 1993), and “Underground Tests,” as well as the typed manuscript draft of the first chapter of an untitled novel-in-progress. The papers also include Houghton Miflin’s press packet for The Things They Carried.
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London publisher of Irish (and other) authors. Mainly correspondence between O'Keefe and the writers with whom he worked as director of MacGibbon & Kee Publishers (London) and later as partner in Martin, Brian, & O'Keefe; authors include Brian O'Nolan, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Patrick Kavanaugh.The Timothy O'Keeffe papers consists of correspondence between O'Keeffe and the writers and poets (Brian O'Nolan, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Montague, Patrick Kavanaugh, e.e. cummings, and...
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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...
A treaty of several tribes (Seneca, Wyandot, Delaware, etc.) concluded at St. Mary's, Ohio, 1818, and was signed by Vice President Calhoun in 1826. Accompanying this treaty is a very large plat showing the allotment of lands. The plat is signed by Josua Meigs, Surveyor-General of the United States.
Color and black/white Kodachrome slides depicting the early history and people of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Most of the slides have handwritten descriptions. This was accumulated by history professor William Settle, presumably for a presentation on the history of Tulsa.
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The Tulsa Art Deco collection consists of photographs of various Tulsa buildings, as well as some miscellaneous slides (probably rejections from a slide-tape presentation assembled at the same time as the book), research notes, background materials, interviews, and minutes from which the book was compiled. Also included are drafts and galleys of the book, page proofs and an unbound copy of the book, and six blueprints representing various Tulsa buildings which were built in the Art Deco...
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The papers consist of 1) administrative papers and correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event calendars, and the Society's newsletter, the Scissortail. This series is organized chronologically with some years further divided by subject, i.e. 1988-Tallgrass Preserve, or, 1988-Scissortail; 2) bird observation records reported to the Tulsa Audubon Society Recorder as one of the society's activities. It also contains the Recorder's annual reports, Christmas bird counts, Big Day...
2 panorama photographs featuring the attendees of the O.S.F.A. Convention, Tulsa, 1922; 2 photographs featuring smaller groups of associated individuals. Also included in the collection are a fireman's 1920s-era coat and hat.
