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Tulsa (Okla.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Advertising placard, 1947-07-05

 Item
Identifier: 2006.012 OVRSZ 5
Scope and Contents

Cardboard mock up of the front cover of the issue of the Saturday Evening Post with the article, "The Cities of America: Tulsa" by Wesley W. Stout.

Dates: 1947-07-05

Advertising placard, 1947-07-05

 Item
Identifier: 2006.012 OVRSZ 5
Scope and Contents

Carboard advertisement for "America's Oil Capital, Tulsa, The Cities of America Series" for The Saturday Evening Post."

Dates: 1947-07-05

Charles Alfred Bredin WWI-era papers, 1918-1968

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-020
Scope and Contents

A collection pf papers, letters and ephemera relating to Charles Alfred Bredin. A Diary and some materials set during his time in Co. D, 317th Machine Gun Battalion, 81st Division, AEF during the first World War. He later served with the 15th Infantry Regt. in China. Correspondence with his fiance, Grace Manning (AKA Olivia Lee Bredin). Bredin was originally from New York, and later moved to Tulsa in the 1930s.

Dates: 1918 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1936

Confederate Veterans encampment photographs, 1918-09-27

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-056
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken of the parade of Confederate Veterans for the encampment held in Tulsa 24-27 September 1918 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans post.

Dates: 1918-09-27

Events of the Tulsa Disaster

 Digital Collection
Identifier: F704.T92P371922

Fannie Brownlee Misch photograph of Lilah D. Lindsey, approximately 1895

 Item
Identifier: 1976-024
Scope and Contents

Fannie Brownlee Misch photograph of Lilah D. Lindsey is a large, oval-framed photograph of an early Tulsa educator. Accompanying note: "This portrait was likely taken soon after 1895 br Dick Hughes, first resident photographer in Tulsa. Lilah L. did retouching for him. This was not included with the Shleppy materials. I aquired it from Louise Whitam early historian."

Dates: 1895

Francis Albert Schmidt scrapbooks, 1911-1922

 File
Identifier: 1979-017
Content Description

4 volumes of scrapbooks of TU athletic and other events. At least one volume contains photographs of WWI era soldiers training.

Dates: 1911 - 1922

Frank Galbreath papers, 1903-1978

 Collection
Identifier: 1977-004
Scope and Contents Consists primarily of material relating to Galbreath's father, oilman Robert Galbreath, driller of the Ida E. Glenn No. 1 oil well that began the growth of the oil industry in Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma. Also included are photocopy page proofs for Frank Galbreath's book, Glenn Pool...and a Little Oil Town of Yesteryear. The papers include: Photocopy page proofs and [research material and signed letter] for Frank Galbreath's book, Glenn Pool...and a Little Oil Town of Yesteryear;...
Dates: 1903 - 1978

Greenwood community photograph album, 1922-approximately 1950

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-028
Scope and Contents

124 unidentified photos featuring men, women and children of the Greenwood community in the 1920s, mounted on black pages of a black photo album.

Dates: 1922 - 1950

Hall, J.M. (James Monroe), Undated

 File
Identifier: 1981.008.4