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- McFarlin Library: A View from the Top | From McFarlin Tower on McFarlin Library blueprints are now available online
- Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017 | From McFarlin Tower on World War I: 1917 – The Yanks are Coming exhibit
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- The Great War / World War I collections | From McFarlin Tower on Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg Collection
Author Archives: Melissa Kunz
Special Collections Director I. Marc Carlson, 1962-2022
Special Collections and University Archives is sad to announce that our department director, I. Marc Carlson, died on May 21st, 2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Marc worked at McFarlin Library for more than thirty-five years, spending fifteen of those in the … Continue reading
Former Provost, Joyce scholar, and archival enthusiast Thomas F. Staley has died
Dr. Thomas F. Staley, former Provost, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Chair of Modern Literature at The University of Tulsa, died March 29th, 2022. He was 86 years old. Born on August 13, 1935 in Pittsburgh, … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, General, James Joyce, literature, McFarlin Library
Tagged acquisitions, history, James Joyce, james joyce quarterly, jjq, thomas f. staley
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Gus Welch Collection
Editor’s Note: This blog post comes to us from Saige Blanchard, a library student at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. Saige completed an internship with Special Collections in conjunction with her archival processing classes, and as part of her portfolio work, … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Collections, History
Tagged football, gus welch, internship, jim thorpe, Librarian, library student, native american hall of fame
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Greenwood 1921: Centenary
Special Collections and University Archives presents a new virtual exhibit, Greenwood 1921: Centenary. This digital exhibit site focuses on the images of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that Special Collections has in our holdings. There is a full timeline description of … Continue reading
John W. Shleppey travel and menu collection
The University of Tulsa McFarlin Library Special Collections and University Archives are pleased to announce that the John W. Shleppey travel and menu collection has been fully processed and made available for full digital access through our website. Just click … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Digital Collections, History
Tagged food, food media, menu, restaurants, shleppey, travel
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1919: Versailles and the Aftermath
Special Collections at McFarlin Library has a new exhibit about the final year of World War I. 1919: Versailles and the Aftermath explores the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the significance of the League of Nations, and what happened … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, McFarlin Library, World War I
Tagged 1919, exhibit, treaty of versailles, World War I
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Edith Nesbit archive
We here at Special Collections and University Archives at The University of Tulsa McFarlin Library are pleased to announce that the Edith Nesbit archive has been fully reprocessed and is now better organized and more easily accessible to patrons. Edith … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, literature
Tagged author, british author, children's literature, edith nesbit, hubert bland
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Tulsa activist Barbara Santee has died
Barbara Santee, a Tulsa-born activist and graduate of The University of Tulsa, died aged 81 on November 7, 2018. She had worked in the TU Center for Health Policy Research, and was also an executive director for the Oklahoma state … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Medicine
Tagged abortion, activism, barbara santee, death, naral, reproductive rights
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Artist’s Books: Challenging Norms & Forms
Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Tulsa McFarlin Library is pleased to announce our new Winter 2019 exhibit, Artist’s Books: Challenging Norms & Forms. Artist’s books are works that challenge the traditional idea of what a book is. … Continue reading
Posted in artwork, Exhibits
Tagged artist book, artist's book, Books, exhibit, sculptural objects
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Rare, possibly only known footage of Edward Dahlberg
Based on a recent patron request, we had this Super 8 film footage of Edward Dahlberg in September 1968 converted into a digital format. The footage is of Dahlberg and his editor, Harold Billings, along with Billings’s wife and their … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Digital Collections, literature
Tagged edward dahlberg, expatriat, film, harold billings, literary, modernist, video
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