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- Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017 | From McFarlin Tower on World War I: 1917 – The Yanks are Coming exhibit
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McFarlin Fellows Dinner April 12, 2018: WWI and Institutional Memory
Last night was the final McFarlin Fellows Dinner of the school year. As my last one I will attend, it was both fun and a little bittersweet. My fellow Graduate Assistants and I invited the two new students who will … Continue reading
Posted in Fellows Events
Tagged Digital Humanities, Jeff Drouin, McFarlin Fellows, WWI
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Elizabeth Melvin Chamberlain Collection of Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet. He also produced several stage productions and toured giving college lectures. Morley was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1890. He got his love for literature and poetry … Continue reading
Thomas “Bruce” Luckett
Thomas Bruce Luckett was born on December 6, 1919 in Tulsa. He attended Central High School and then went on to attend The University of Tulsa graduating in 1941 with a Bachelor of Science. He was interested in creating scale … Continue reading
Found in Collection: Henry James correspondence
As a result of having a large collection and limited staff, we are not always able to fully process collections in a timely manner. This means that there may be items in our collections which we are unaware of. Due … Continue reading
Richard Murphy, aged 90, has died
It was with great sadness that we were informed about the death of the Irish poet Richard Murphy. He passed away on Tuesday January 30 in Sri Lanka, a country he clearly loved as he had spent part of his … Continue reading
Images of the Circus
McFarlin Special Collections is well known for its collections on World War I, modernist writers, and Tulsa history but did you know that one of our other main areas of collecting is circus material? We have 9 collections that contain … Continue reading
Posted in Circus, Collections, Uncategorized
Tagged Circus, Photos, Traveling Circus
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Harold Leventhal Proletarian Archive
Earlier this semester we switched to a new database for our collections that, among other things, allows researchers to search for specific items through our entire collection instead of individual collections. This new system inspired us to go back through … Continue reading
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Tagged bob dylan, communism, Harold Leventhal, socialism, Woody Guthrie
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World War I Stereocard Collection
This semester the Art History department offered a course titled Cultural Reactions to War in the 20th Century. The class studied painting, posters, music, poetry, prose, and films that were all created in reaction to WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam … Continue reading
Henry C. Merriam papers, 1865-1907
Though McFarlin Special Collections is known for its extensive World War I collections, it also has some material related to other wars and military figures including the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. … Continue reading
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Tagged Antietam, army, civil war, Fort Blakely, Henry C. Merriam, Union Army
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