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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: Marc Carlson
World War Posters
As we enter the new academic year, and the third year of remembering the First World War, we should also remember how that war was sold to the people. The University of Tulsa has in its collections over 250 propaganda … Continue reading
Posted in artwork, Collections, Digital Collections, Exhibits
Tagged collections, exhibit, Great War, history, popular culture, posters, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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Some new WWI Digital Collections uploads.
As part of our ongoing efforts to make our World War I holdings available online, several batches of photographs have been added to our WWI photographs digital collections site in March through May. Specifically these are: Algot F. Carlson World … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Collections, History
Tagged collections, Great War, history, photographs, War, World War I, WWI
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Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter
A hundred and fifty-six years ago today, a new literary format was unveiled. The Dime Novel was born in an attempt by the publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle to make money on inexpensive, ephemeral literature entitled Beadle’s Dime Novels. The … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, dime novels, Libraries, Literature, popular culture
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Tulsa Race Riot anniversary
Today marks the 95th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot and the looting and destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa. The official estimates of the death toll was 36 people; 10 White:26 Black. Over the next year the Red … Continue reading
Alice Welford Archive
In 2010, the Department of Special Collections acquired a nursing journal and photograph album that belonged to Sister Alice Welford, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, during the First World War. The Alice Welford Archive. Coll No. 2010.064 has … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, History
Tagged Great War, history, nurses, photographs, World War I, World War One, WWI
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New Acquisition
The Department of Special Collections has received this recently published booklet. Lucy London, Women Casualties of the Great War in Military Cemeteries. Volume 1: Belgium and France. (D628.W66 2016). This is the first of an expected series that will record … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions
Tagged acquisitions, Great War, history, memorials, nurses, World War I, World War One, WWI
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J. F. Standiford, photographer
Jacob Frank Standiford (1852-?) was a photographer in Indian Territory. He was originally from what would become West Virginia, and part of his life was lived in Illinois and Kansas. In 1878, he moved to Muskogee, I.T. and received a … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged history, Indian Territory, Native Americans, Oklahoma, Photographer, photographs, Standiford
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New acquisition, Jack C. Rea library of Science Fiction
The staff recently began moving in the Jack C. Rea Library of Science Fiction, approximately 81 linear feet of hard cover first editions and first bound editions of the works of Science Fiction authors from the 1930s to the 1990s. … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, literature, Popular Culture
Tagged acquisitions, Books, collections, Libraries, library, Literature, popular culture, Science Fiction
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New Acquisition (just in time for tornado season).
This week the department of Special Collections and University Archives has acquired a set of 24 cabinet card mounted photographs mostly taken in Indian and Oklahoma Territories and generally of Native American related subjects. The collection was assembled by Esther … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, collections, history, Indian Territory, photographs
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New appearance
You may notice some changes to the appearance of this blog. We are attempting to make it appear more in line with the University’s current standards.
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