Spanish-American War, 1898

Scope and Contents From the File: 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...

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"War Has Begun!!...War declared by the U.S. government at 1:30 P.M. today. The Flying Squadron is now on its way to Cuba...."

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"Camera's Evidence of Starvation's Ravages in Cuba. Vicims of Spain's Horrible War of Extermination".

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View looking down on the bodies of several soldiers lying dead on a watery battlefield.

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"Marching Home from the War." A Patrol. Cover features a photo, used by permission of Pach Bros. New York, of soldiers marching down a main street with crowds of onlookers. Published by Chas. K.Harris.

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This artificial collection was begun as a catch-all for small single gifts and purchases, and to make them easier for scholars to search them. This assemblage consists primarily of documents, correspondence, photographs, broadsides and artifacts, dealing mostly with United States history.