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Tag Archives: acquisitions
New acquisition: Hard Times punk fanzine
Special Collections has newly acquired Hard Times, a punk fanzine that was published in Maywood, New Jersey. The magazine was focused on the punk rock scene of New York City that featured letters, interviews, pictorials, and cartoons. The original run of the … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, fanzine, popular culture, punk music, punk rock
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New Collection: Laura E. Hudson Petroleum and Geology Teaching Aid
This week the University of Tulsa Special Collections and Archives received a new collection from Laura E. Hudson. This collection consists of 115 handmade illustrated petroleum and geology flash cards. These cards were used by the Amoco Oil training center … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, collections, geology, petroleum, teaching
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New Acquisition: The Apple Tree
McFarlin Library Special Collections has acquired a new addition to our Cherokee language collection. The Apple Tree (PZ7.1.T437 2015), written by Cherokee author Sandy Tharp-Thee and illustrated by Oklahoma artist Marlena Campbell Hodson, is a children’s book in English and Cherokee that … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, Books, Cherokee Language, collections, J.B. Milam, Native Americans, Oklahoma author
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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
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Tagged acquisitions, Great War, history, memorials, nurses, World War I, World War One, WWI
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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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I, Libertine–Fake book and literary hoax
During a recent staff meeting at McFarlin Library Special Collections and University Archives, the topic of fake books and literary hoaxes came up. The one fake book that grabbed everyone’s attention was “I, Libertine” by Frederick R. Ewing. This book … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, Books, Fake book, Literary Hoax, popular culture
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New Acquisition
Confederate Veterans Encampment Photographs, 2015.056 Between 24 and 27 September 1918 the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma hosted a Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, and other affiliated organizations. This reunion was an important milestone for the city, with the city … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, civil war, Reunions, Tulsa, World War I, World War One, WWI
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New Acquisition
One of our most recent acquisitions is the Barbara Santee archive of Oklahoma woman’s reproductive rights and ancillary materials. Briefly stated, this is a record of over forty years of the politics of women’s reproductive rights in Oklahoma. As yet … Continue reading
New Acquisition: Report from the Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen”
The “Report from the Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen on three Moravian church missions to Native Americans including a brief section on their work among the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas, said evangelizing work … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, cherokee, collections, missionaries, Native Americans
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