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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
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko | From McFarlin Tower on Where did TU’s Picasso go?
- The Great War / World War I collections | From McFarlin Tower on Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg Collection
- Some new WWI Digital Collections uploads. | From McFarlin Tower on Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg Collection
Author Archives: Melissa Kunz
Birthday for July 14: Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie, a singer-songwriter, poet, and artist, was born in Okemah, Oklahoma on July 14th, 1912. One of the most prominent members of the American folk music scene, Guthrie learned to play blues and folk songs from friends of his … Continue reading
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Tagged americana, birthday, bound for glory, Famous Birthdays, folk music, house of earth, Woody Guthrie
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Birthday for July 3: Francis Steegmuller
Francis Steegmuller, a writer, biographer, and scholar of the works of Gustave Flaubert, was born on July 3, 1906 in New Haven, Connecticut. Steegmuller was educated at Columbia University and was particularly prolific on the subjects of French authors and … Continue reading
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Tagged author, birthday, Francis Steegmuller, Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Shirley Hazzard, writer
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Birthday for July 3: Elizabeth Coles Taylor
Elizabeth Coles Taylor, a novelist, was born in England on July 3, 1912. She worked as a librarian and governess before she published her first novel in 1945, At Mrs. Lippincote’s. Taylor wrote several novels, various short stories, and even a … Continue reading
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Tagged author, birthday, elizabeth coles taylor, novelist
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Tulsa Art Deco Collection, 1982.006, is complete and available for viewing and research
Special Collections and University Archives at The University of Tulsa is pleased to announce that a collection related to Tulsa’s art deco history is processed and ready for researchers and visitors to view. In the late 1970s, Tulsa’s Junior League … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art deco, blueprints, book, streamline, Tulsa, tulsa junior league
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The BOOM Days: Prosperity and Pain in Each Barrel of Crude has been extended
Special Collections announces that the exhibit BOOM Days: Prosperity and Pain in Each Barrel of Crude has been extended to run through August 18, 2017. This exhibit features a variety of items from our petroleum collections. It is located in … Continue reading
Bob Dylan Archive now open to select applicants—at the Helmerich Center for American Research
Even a full year after The University of Tulsa and the George Kaiser Family Foundation completed their acquisition of the Bob Dylan Archive, we here at Special Collections still get phone calls and emails from curious and enthusiastic Dylan fans … Continue reading
Special Collections policy change for visiting classes
Special Collections is making changes to our policy on groups visiting our department, effective immediately. Generally, there are two situations where groups visit us, and we’d like to clarify our rules to ensure that visitors have a pleasant experience, and to … Continue reading
Kent Frizzell Wounded Knee papers
Recently The University of Tulsa College of Law made a pastoral announcement concerning the passing of Kent Frizzell, retired Professor of Law, and Director of the National Energy Law and Policy Institute from 1977 to 1995. Frizzell also served as United … Continue reading
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Tagged collection, kent frizzell, photographs, wounded knee, wounded knee occupation
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New acquisition: Daniel Teoli book of 1970s culture in Hollywood and LA
Special Collections has recently acquired a book of photographs by Daniel Teoli, a social documentarian. The book is titled Portfolio: Peering into the world of 1970s Hollywood and LA. The black and white images are primarily from street photography, and focus … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, california, daniel teoli, hollywood, LA, los angeles, social photography, street photography
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