United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc.

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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Registration certificate card for military service, hand-completed, dated and signed.

Scope and Contents "You are hereby notified that pursuant to the Act of Congress, approved May 18, 1917, you are called for military service...you will report at the office of this Local Board for physical examination on Aug 15, 1917 at 8 a.m....." Serial No. 2984. On verso: Printed form explaining the penalities of making false statements. Includes a handwritten note, presumably by John O. Miller: "Wire Board #3, San Antonio c/o of me at my expense, jurisdiction over physical examination. ...

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"You are hereby notified that you were on the 3rd day of Sept 1917, certified by this Local Board [Dallas County] to District Board [Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth] as having been called for the military service of the United States and not exempted or discharged...."

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From the War Department Local Board for Dallas County, Texas: Order to report to the local board at 10 a.m. on the 10th day of Oct 1917 for military duty and for transportation to the Army Mobilization Camp at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas. Order No. 966 addressed to Jno. O. Miller, 5747 Prospect, Dallas, TX.

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Received and registered mail receipt with postmark, signed by J.O. Miller.

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A photograph of actress Shirley Jones, in Tulsa for the Southwest première of the movie "Oklahoma!" with four recruiters in front of the Tulsa Federal Building.

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A photograph of actress Shirley Jones, in Tulsa for the Southwest première of the movie "Oklahoma!" with four recruiters in front of the Tulsa Federal Building.

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A photograph of actress Shirley Jones, in Tulsa for the Southwest première of the movie "Oklahoma!" with four recruiters in front of the Tulsa Federal Building.

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A photograph of actress Shirley Jones, in Tulsa for the Southwest première of the movie "Oklahoma!" with four recruiters in front of the Tulsa Federal Building.