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Category Archives: World War I
WWI Reconnaissance Photographs
November 11th, 2018 marks the centenary of the end of World War I. The Great War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history due to new technologies and industrial developments, with a great deal of trench warfare. It is … Continue reading
Bert Hebbes WWI Letters archive, Coll No. 2007.017
Post by intern Tracy Ashby In 2007, the Department of Special Collections acquired a collection of letters that belonged to Bert Hebbes, a British Rifleman during the First World War. The Bert Hebbes WWI Letters archive, Coll No. 2007.017 is … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, Great War, history, War, World War I, World War One
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Alice Welford WWI photograph album and military nursing lecture journal, 1911-1918
As has been discussed before, the Alice Welford archive is available for research. It has been recently reprocessed to take advantage of the new ArchivesSpace Archival Catalog we are now using. Please take a look at it, if you are … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Digital Collections, Medicine, World War I
Tagged collections, Great War, history, manuscripts, photographs, World War I, World War One, WWI
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1918: Pandemic exhibit now open
The University of Tulsa Department of Special Collections and University Archives has opened a new exhibit for the summer of 2018 titled 1918: Pandemic. This exhibit focuses on 1918, the final year of World War I. With American troops joining the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918, armistice, influenza, pandemic, russian revolution, the great war, western front, World War I, WWI
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The forgotten heroes: Dogs as soldiers
This November 11th marks the 91st official Armistice Day, better known as Veteran’s Day. The holiday dates back to November 11th, 1926, when Congress adopted a resolution in the summer of that year, requesting that the President honor the day … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Events, Exhibits, History, Holiday, Hours, McFarlin Library, News, World War I, World War II
Tagged Dogs, Man's best friend, soldiers, Special Collections, Veteran's Day, WW1, WW2
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Canadian Official War Record – Lantern Slides
The University of Tulsa Department of Special Collections and University Archives is well-known for its World War collections. We currently have an exhibit on World War I, so I began to browse our storage room to familiarize myself with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, collections, exhibit, history, library, War, World War I
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Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017
The University of Tulsa Department of Special Collections and University Archives is well known for our effort to make collections easily accessible to the public. We are currently in the process of adding the Charles Alfred Bredin Collection (2001.020) to … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Collections, Digital Collections, Events, Exhibits, History, World War I
Tagged acquisitions, collections, correspondence, exhibit, history, photographs, Tulsa, tulsa race riot, War, World War One, WWI
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Perry Douglas Erwin letters
McFarlin Library Special Collections and University Archives has an extensive World War I Collection. Our department has been collecting World War I material since the 1970s with the acquisition of hundreds of unit histories and other books comprising the original … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, correspondence, history, letters, Libraries, library, Oklahoma, Tulsa, World War I, World War One
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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, the Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg diary and photograph albums have been added to our digital collections. These can be seen as a single collection at this … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, exhibit, Great War, gruenberg, Tulsa, World War I, World War One, WWI
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