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Category Archives: Digital Collections
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 February. Specifically these are: WWI photographs, 1918-1935. Coll No. 2001.073. … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, Great War, history, photographs, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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New in Digital Collections: January 2016
Special Collections added new materials to our digital collections site in January. We added a 1971 special issue of Oklahoma Impact Magazine with articles and interviews to our Tulsa Race Relations and Greenwood Cultural Materials section. Our collection of 300 … Continue reading
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Tagged impact magazine, stereoscope cards, tulsa race riot, World War I, WWI
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TU vs. Loyola – Digitized 16mm footage of basketball games
Attention all Golden Hurricane basketball fans! Loyola University recently digitized a collection of 16mm reels showing basketball games with many universities, including the University of Tulsa. Our two games, played in January 1963 and December 1964, have been put online … Continue reading
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Tagged 16mm, 1960s, 1963, 1964, basketball, film footage, loyola university
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New in Digital Collections: December 2015
The University of Tulsa Special Collections and University Archives has added new items to our digital collections. Our new items of note include: More photographs from our university archives negatives collection. Images now include photographs of campus in the 1950s, … Continue reading
Fore-Edge Paintings: The Heavens and Seasons
Fore-edge paintings are illustrations worked, usually by watercolor, onto the exposed long edge of pages in a book. When the book is closed, the image or images are usually not visible, but when the pages are fanned out, an intricate … Continue reading
Two Bills but Only One Wild West: The Joseph T. McCaddon collection of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Gordon William “Pawnee Bill” Lillie papers
Part 2: Pawnee Bill In 1895, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show traveled to 131 stands in 190 days, covering a route of 9,000 miles, requiring the use of 52 railway cars! And, although Buffalo Bill’s barnstorming tours were highly profitable, … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, history, photographs, wild west shows
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Two Bills but Only One Wild West: The Joseph T. McCaddon collection of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Gordon William “Pawnee Bill” Lillie papers
Sneak a peek under the proverbial circus tent of the Joseph T. McCaddon collection and you’ll catch a glimpse of the excitement and drama played out in the Wild West arenas of the Buffalo Bill Cody and Pawnee Bill shows. … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, history, photographs, wild west shows
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New in Digital Collections: November 2015 Update
Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Tulsa added some new items of interest to our digital collections website during the month of November. World War I through the Stereoscope – approximately 150 of the stereoscope cards have been … Continue reading
Digital collections: 1924 Booker T. Washington High School Yearbook
We’ve recently digitized and uploaded a fascinating piece of Tulsa history. Our copy of The Orbit, Booker T. Washington High School’s yearbook from 1924, is now available to look through on our ContentDM site at this link. Teachers, students, school … Continue reading
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Tagged 1924, booker t washington, booker t washington high school, btw, digital collections, the orbit, Tulsa, yearbook
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