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Tag Archives: photographs
Reflecting on Race: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
This coming Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. MLK’s life was devoted to creating equality and breaking the barriers between people of different races, specifically between blacks and whites. The city of Tulsa has a sad history of hate … Continue reading
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Tagged artists books, collections, history, photographs, Tulsa, tulsa race riot
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Fight On and Fly: The First Air War, 1914-1918 (Finale)
On the night of September 2nd, 1916, the Germans mounted the largest airship attack yet on Britain with thirteen airships crossing the North Sea heading for the Midlands and London. One of the ships was spotted by the searchlights and … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, history, photographs, World War I
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Current Exhibit
Professor Kirsten Olds’s class on the History of Photos and Video has done a presentation in our exhibit cases that will be up throughout the rest of the fall 2011 semester, utilizing images from our collections. The displays are: Display … Continue reading
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Tulsa Race Riot photographs
The Department of Special Collections has a collection of many photographs related to the Tulsa race riot, which occurred 31 May-1 June 1921. A small exhibit of these can be found online. Many of these remain under copyright, even though … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, history, photographs, Tulsa, tulsa race riot
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New Acquisitions
Since the beginning of the year, we’ve made a few more acquisitions that may be of interest. Unfortunately, we have neglected to mention them here. A photograph of Battery D 37th Artillery, C.A.C. (2011.001), photographer Irving I. Underhill. A photograph … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, andre deutsch, art, collections, Literature, photographs, World War I, World War One, WWI
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New Acquisitions
We have recently acquired the following items: Papers from the First Zionist Congress in Basel.-. 1-yi Vsemirno-Evreiskii Kongress’ Sionistov v Bazele 17/29, 18/30, i 19/31 Augusta 1897 g. 48 pp. papers (in Russian) from the first Zionist Congress, intended to … Continue reading
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New Acquisitions
As we are nearing the end of the year, we just received a few new items. First is a collection of 250+ photos taken in 1944-1946, in what appears to the be the Battle of Leyte and the occupation of … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, Great War, photographs, World War I, World War II, World War One, World War Two, WWI, WWII
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Sarah Blackwood photographs
This new acquisition of 11 photographs came to us due to the University’s relationship with the Thomas Gilcrease Museum. They had been given to the Gilcrease, but since the museum doesn’t collect race riot materials and we do, it was felt that the … Continue reading
