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Tag Archives: letters
WWI Memorabilia
World War I is one of the larger collections we house at Special Collections. This ranges from numerous items such as correspondence, trench maps, physical items such as a nurse’s cap, diaries, postcards and more. The diaries show everyday life … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, history, Illustrations, letters, scrapbook, Special Collections, university of tulsa, World War I, WWI
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The Tulsa Women’s Club Collection
Continuing with our theme of covering Women’s History Month, this post is about a little archive of the Tulsa Women’s Club. I found that it hadn’t been digitized at all yet, so I scanned as many items as I could during … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, club, collections, community service, correspondence, general, letters, Literature, Oklahoma, oklahoma women, photographs, Tulsa, Tulsa Women's Club, women
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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
Posted in Collections, Digital Collections, History, World War I
Tagged collections, correspondence, history, letters, Libraries, library, Oklahoma, Tulsa, World War I, World War One
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Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer was an early to mid-twentieth century British author credited with the creation of the regency romance genre. She also wrote several works in the mystery and historical fiction genres. Heyer’s novels were popular to her contemporaries, though far … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, Georgette Heyer, letters, Literature
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A Civil War Romance: General George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth Clift Bacon
General George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth Clift Bacon had a devoted and passionate love affair that lasted their entire lives. Custer was a young cavalry officer in the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. He formally met … Continue reading
Cats of Copenhagen acquisition
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Tagged acquisitions, copyright, James Joyce, letters, Literature
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Flannery O’Connor Correspondence
Also included in this collection are a program for the 1963 commencement of Smith College at which O’Connor was awarded a Doctor of Letters degree and a photograph of O’Connor with Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, College President.
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Tagged collections, correspondence, Flannery O' Connor, letters, Southern Writers
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