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Art Deco in Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma has an outstanding collection of Art Deco architecture. The style is mainly found in the “Deco District” in downtown Tulsa, but it can be seen throughout the city on churches, schools, and gas stations to name a few. … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, art deco, collections, photographs, Special Collections, Tulsa
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Walt Whitman
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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Tagged collections, photographs, Special Collections, Walt Whitman, Whitman
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Alice in Wonderland: Original Illustrations
Have you ever wondered who originally illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland? John Tenniel created a total of ninety-two drawings for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Lewis Carroll had originally illustrated Wonderland … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, art, Books, collections, flip book, Illustrations, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Special Collections
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Lance Hidy: Graphic Arts Posters
Graphic designer, Lance Hidy, is best known for his style of printing by creating clean-cut and minimalist posters. His unique designs stand out with their simplistic nature, vivid colors, and hard-edged shapes. Hidy was born in 1964 in LaGrande, Oregon. … Continue reading
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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
Milton Glaser
Have you ever wondered who created the famous “I love NY” logo? Graphic designer, Milton Glaser was commissioned by the State of New York in 1976 to create the iconic logo. Glaser was born in 1929 and went to the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art work, artists, artwork, collections, graphic design, library, logos, Milton, Milton Glaser, New York, posters, Special Collections, Tulsa, university of tulsa
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Illustrations By William Roderick James
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
A new article about the late Sir V. S. Naipaul
TU houses the late Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul’s entire archive
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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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
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Tagged collections, Great War, history, manuscripts, photographs, World War I, World War One, WWI
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