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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1981-025
Content Description
For almost 40 years the British poet, novelist, and scholar Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988) collected eighteenth and nineteenth century English poetry, often searching rural bookshops with such bookish companions as Edmund Blunden and Sir Rupert Hart-Davis. The result of his dedication is found in the collection of 5,000 volumes of English poetry from the past two centuries. The collection was formed not so much with an eye towards rarity as with attention to the more obscure figures as well as...
Dates:
1587 - 1980
File
Identifier: 2001-072
Scope and Contents
Les Ruines Apre le Passage des Allemands photo-postcards - an 18-page commemorative album of photo-postcards depicting scenes in France during 1914-1915. Printed captions are in both French and English.
Dates:
1914 - 1915
Collection — map-case: 5, drawer: 12-15
Identifier: 1982-018
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, stationery, and ephemera related to circuses in the United States and abroad.
Dates:
1930 - 1970
Collection
Identifier: E97-R63 1813
Content Description
Manuscript notebook in Hebrew and English. Content consists largely of an elementary grammar and dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, including Hebrew words for entries suggesting Cherokee culture (such as quiver, bow, buffalo, and red blood man.) An assortment of notes laid-in, mostly for use in catechism but also including receipts for books, an iron stove, groceries and various household articles dated from 1828-1845.Records a wedding celebrated by Roberts in Valley Towns on August...
Dates:
1813 - 1845; Majority of material found within 1813 - 1836
Collection
Identifier: 1500-026
Scope and Contents
Artificial collection of maps organized into the following categories: World; North American continent; Oklahoma and Indian Territory; Indians of North America; and atlases.
This collection does not include the WWI related maps which may be found in the collection WWI maps, 1910-1920, 1500-027.
Dates:
1500 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1920
Collection
Identifier: 1991-003
Scope and Contents
The Margaret Crosland correspondence consists of approximately 250 handwritten letters, postcards and typed letters from Crosland to Peter Owen and /or the associates of Peter Owen Ltd. (Elizabeth Moore, Elfreda "Freda" Powell, and Michael Levien); approximately 265 carbon copy typed letters from Peter Owen and/or his associates to Crosland; and other occasional related typed letters between Crosland and/or Peter Owen Ltd. With other publishers, translators, authors, etc. Please note that...
Dates:
1955 - 1969
Item — Box: 2017.046 OVRSZ
Identifier: 2017-046
Scope and Contents
Reproduction of the official Instrument of Surrender, translation, proclamation, and 4 offical Navy photographs of the Doolittle Raid and Surrender.
Dates:
Event: 1942-04-18 - 1945-09-02
Collection
Identifier: 2014-043
Scope and Contents
89 souvenir WWI-era postcards, some unused, but most containing handwrtten messages postmarked and addressed to a Miss Louise Waite of Shawnee, Oklahoma. The preponderance of postcards feature sites within France and Belgium. Also included is a WWI-era artillery pickelhaube.
Dates:
1918 - 1928
Collection
Identifier: 1500-019
Collection
Identifier: 2000-004
Scope and Contents
The Midwest Refining Company papers consist of annual reports, Wyoming Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and other documents concerning the organization and finances of the company from February 1914 through November 1924. Included are press cuttings dating from Apr 1924-Jan 1928 relating to the Tea Pot Dome scandal in which Henry M. Blackmer, Director and Chairman of the Board for Midwest Refining Company was implicated; and U.S. District and Circuit Court records pertaining to a...
Dates:
1914 - 1928
