Category Archives: Collections

Tulsa activist Barbara Santee has died

Posted on 2019 January 4 by Melissa Kunz

Barbara Santee, a Tulsa-born activist and graduate of The University of Tulsa, died aged 81 on November 7, 2018. She had worked in the TU Center for Health Policy Research, and was also an executive director for the Oklahoma state … Continue reading →

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Walt Whitman

Posted on 2018 November 2 by Marc Carlson

In 1952, Tulsa businessman Rush Greenslade and group called the Tulsa Bibliophiles deposited with McFarlin Library a large collection of Walt Whitman books, and ephemera, creating the first ‘rare book room’ in the library.  This was in the north wing … Continue reading →

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Posted on 2018 October 2 by Molly McVey

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the only person to win both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. During her lifetime she wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays, and numerous collections of short stories. In 2002, she was granted a joint fellowship … Continue reading →

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J. B. Milam on Osiyo

Posted on 2018 September 20 by Marc Carlson

The Osiyo program recently aired an episode about J. B. Milam using materials from our collections.

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Illustrations By William Roderick James

Posted on 2018 September 6 by Molly McVey

French Canadian artist and writer, William Roderick James, was well-known for his illustrations on the American West, specifically of horses and cowboys. He is most known for writing and illustrating Smoky the Cowhorse, which won the Newbery Medal in 1972. … Continue reading →

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Rare, possibly only known footage of Edward Dahlberg

Posted on 2018 September 6 by Melissa Kunz

Based on a recent patron request, we had this Super 8 film footage of Edward Dahlberg in September 1968 converted into a digital format. The footage is of Dahlberg and his editor, Harold Billings, along with Billings’s wife and their … Continue reading →

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A new article about the late Sir V. S. Naipaul

Posted on 2018 August 30 by Marc Carlson

TU houses the late Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul’s entire archive

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Tulsa Municipal Airport Ledger books

Posted on 2018 August 28 by Melissa Kunz

On August 28, 1963, Tulsa’s airport name was changed from Tulsa Municipal Airport to Tulsa International Airport. Today marks the 55th anniversary of the switch. TIA has gone through many changes and renovations over the years, but it started as … Continue reading →

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Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul

Posted on 2018 August 13 by Marc Carlson

Post by Tracy Ashby Nobel laureate Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul died in his London home on Saturday August 11, 2018 at age 85. He was known for his fiction and non-fiction novels, travel writings and essays, and autobiographic … Continue reading →

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Bert Hebbes WWI Letters archive, Coll No. 2007.017

Posted on 2018 August 9 by Marc Carlson

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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