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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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Author Archives: Hannah Johnson
Tulsa Women’s Club Papers
Women’s Club Movement: At the start of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, clubs founded and patronized by women and intended for women were increasing in popularity and influence across the United States. At a … Continue reading
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Tagged club, collections, history, Oklahoma, philanthropy, Tulsa, women
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Early Women Writers: Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the ingenious work by Hungarian born Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Though a relatively unknown work of fiction, the Scarlet Pimpernel is the ancestor of the modern superhero. A would be hero disguises his true identity, confounds evil … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Jennings – 20th Century British Poet
Elizabeth Jennings was a British poet from the twentieth century. She spent most of her life in Oxford England and was educated at St. Anne’s College. For a few years she worked in advertising, libraries, and publishing, then devoted all … Continue reading
Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer was an early to mid-twentieth century British author credited with the creation of the regency romance genre. She also wrote several works in the mystery and historical fiction genres. Heyer’s novels were popular to her contemporaries, though far … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, Georgette Heyer, letters, Literature
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The Weird and Wonky: the stuff you didn’t know we had in the Special Collections and Archives
For the start of the 2017 semester the Graduate Assistants (Jennifer Murphy, Amanda Vestal, and Hannah Johnson), at the McFarlin Library Special Collections and Archives, have created an exhibit which features some of the stranger items in our collections. Over … Continue reading
A Civil War Romance: General George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth Clift Bacon
General George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth Clift Bacon had a devoted and passionate love affair that lasted their entire lives. Custer was a young cavalry officer in the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. He formally met … Continue reading
World War I Victory Gardens
Many Americans are familiar with the idea of the Second World War encouraging home ‘Victory Gardens’. These have been referenced in many films, documentaries, novels, and WWII memorabilia. This week I learned there was quite a bit of encouragement and … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, collections, garden, Great War, history, propaganda, victory, World War I, World War One, WWI
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The Nuremburg Chronicle at TU
One of the prize volumes in the University of Tulsa Special Collections and University Archives is a copy of the Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, or Liber Chronicarum, printed on July 12, 1493. This large tome is one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, exhibit, history, Literature, nuremburg chronicle
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New Collection: Laura E. Hudson Petroleum and Geology Teaching Aid
This week the University of Tulsa Special Collections and Archives received a new collection from Laura E. Hudson. This collection consists of 115 handmade illustrated petroleum and geology flash cards. These cards were used by the Amoco Oil training center … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, collections, geology, petroleum, teaching
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The London Illustrated News
The University of Tulsa Special Collections and Archives has many different texts, manuscripts and artifacts. In the collection is a series of bound newspapers, titled The London Illustrated News (LIN). This publication was established in May 1842 and continued in … Continue reading
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