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Item
Identifier: MC-1954-131
Scope and Contents
Entitled "The Nation of Indians called Charrikees," and written about 1698, this bound manuscript of forty-four pages is enclosed in a portfolio covered with buckram. Written by a man who was apparently an official at Williamsburg in Virginia, this document is interesting as well as informative because of its descriptions of Indian life before 1700.
Dates:
approximately 1698
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-147
Scope and Contents
Maj. Alexander Monypenny (n. d.) kept a diary during an expedition which he led against the Cherokees. The first entry was dated at Charlestown, March 20, 1761; the last entry was dated May 31, 1761, at Camp Moultrie. The diary contains the record of army movements and dealings with the Indians.The order book for New York and Charlestown is a record book-first entry "Orders on board the Brotherly Love Transport" at Sandy Hook, December 24, 1760. The last entry was made in camp at...
Dates:
1760 - 1761
Collection
Identifier: MC-1949-178
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of poems in his own hand, manuscripts, legal documents, a scrap book, a journal kept while he was Superintendent of the Creek Orphan Home at Okmulgee, personal letters, and transcripts of biographical material.
Dates:
1889 - 1907
Collection
Identifier: 1968-001
Scope and Contents
Artist Alexandre Hogue (1898-1994) was born in Memphis, Missouri and lived in Denton and Dallas, Texas before moving to Tulsa in 1945. He was chair of The University of Tulsa School of Art from 1945 to 1963 but continued teaching at the university until his retirement in 1968. The gallery in Phillips Hall has been named in his honor.Hogue's paintings of the Dust Bowl era won him international acclaim. His works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's...
Dates:
1923 - 1994
Collection
Identifier: 2015-052
Scope and Contents
Letters from Jean Rhys to Alexis Lykiard; photographs and snapshots featuring Jean Rhys to be used for proposed photo-illustrations for Lykiard's book, Jean Rhys Revisited; 3 audio cassette recording of ; and 2 video tapes (content unknown).
Dates:
1969 - 1976
Collection
Identifier: 1500-001-24
Content Description
Los Indios Ocuiltecas Actuales. Estudio Ethnografico. 1907. Alumno de Etnologia en el Museo Nacional de Mexico. Carbon copy typescript, signed by the author, and includes photographic illustrations tipped in. Bound with the following: Ethnografico. Resumen de la Tesis Profesional No. 2 by Pedro Carrasco Pizana. Los Otomies. Cultura e historia prehispanica de los pueblos mesoamericanos de habla otomiana. Escuela Nacional de Antropologia del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e...
Dates:
1907 - 1945
Collection
Identifier: 1993-006
Content Description
Two autograph volumes of a diary kept by Alfred Dexter Morgan during his service with the 17th Illinois Cavalry Volunteers in 1864 and 1865. Morgan and his company saw duty primarily in Missouri, but was also stationed in Kansas at the end of the war. Missouri experienced some of the most bitter conflict due to sectionalism and protracted guerrilla warfare, and Morgan's diary speaks of the events occuring at that time. Mentioned in the diary are such notarious bushwhackers as Charles...
Dates:
1864 - 1866
Collection
Identifier: 2010-063
Scope and Contents
A WWI sailor log of Alfred George Lawson on the U. S. S. Paulding from 1917-1919, which describes Lawon's experiences on the U. S. destroyer and his daily activities. The U. S. S. Paulding's primary duty was to escort convoys and protect them from German u-boat attacks. Most of the entries are very brief, merely talking about the weather and whether they were in port or at sea. However, others are much more detailed, particularly in the cases where the U. S. S. Paulding sank a submarine...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-144
Scope and Contents
A manuscript entitled "Rough Drafts to Notes on Indian Sketches" comprises his notes on 166 sketches. Photostatic copies of these notes are included. The second item is a note book containing a description of Fort William on the Laramie.
Dates:
1837
Collection
Identifier: 1974-008
Content Description
Many volumes of work by Algernon Swinburn are housed in Special Collections. For each Swinburn title the collection includes multiple editions which help trace the publishing history of his work.
To view the catalog, click on the "External Documents" link below, which will take you to the McFarlin book catalog for a list of all the included volumes.
Please note that this is a group of BOOKS and not manuscript materials.
Dates:
1865 - 1964; Record Keeping: 1974
