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- McFarlin Library: A View from the Top | From McFarlin Tower on McFarlin Library blueprints are now available online
- Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017 | From McFarlin Tower on World War I: 1917 – The Yanks are Coming exhibit
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko | From McFarlin Tower on Where did TU’s Picasso go?
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Tag Archives: War
Milo Hendrix
For my penultimate post as a Special Collections Graduate Assistant, I am revisiting the topic of the research paper I wrote for a History class my very first semester. In the entrance to Chapman Hall there is a large plaque … Continue reading
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Tagged choir, collections, Eugene Gilmore, football, Henry Kendall College, Indian Territory, Milo Hendrix, photographs, Robertson, Spanish American War, students, War
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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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Tagged collections, Great War, history, War, World War I, World War One
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Canadian Official War Record – Lantern Slides
The University of Tulsa Department of Special Collections and University Archives is well-known for its World War collections. We currently have an exhibit on World War I, so I began to browse our storage room to familiarize myself with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, collections, exhibit, history, library, War, World War I
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Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017
The University of Tulsa Department of Special Collections and University Archives is well known for our effort to make collections easily accessible to the public. We are currently in the process of adding the Charles Alfred Bredin Collection (2001.020) to … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Collections, Digital Collections, Events, Exhibits, History, World War I
Tagged acquisitions, collections, correspondence, exhibit, history, photographs, Tulsa, tulsa race riot, War, World War One, WWI
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World War Posters
As we enter the new academic year, and the third year of remembering the First World War, we should also remember how that war was sold to the people. The University of Tulsa has in its collections over 250 propaganda … Continue reading
Posted in artwork, Collections, Digital Collections, Exhibits
Tagged collections, exhibit, Great War, history, popular culture, posters, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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Some new WWI Digital Collections uploads.
As part of our ongoing efforts to make our World War I holdings available online, several batches of photographs have been added to our WWI photographs digital collections site in March through May. Specifically these are: Algot F. Carlson World … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, Great War, history, photographs, War, World War I, WWI
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A new WWI Digital Collections upload.
As part of our ongoing efforts to make our World War I holdings available online, we are trying to find ways to include documents as well as photographs online. Because of the software we use, it is difficult to have … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, diaries, Great War, photographs, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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Some new WWI Digital Collections uploads.
As part of our ongoing efforts to make our World War I holdings available online, several batches of photographs have been added to our WWI photographs digital collections site in February. Specifically these are: WWI photographs, 1918-1935. Coll No. 2001.073. … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, Great War, history, photographs, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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Centenary of the Somme
The battlefield near Courcelette The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest offensives of the First World War beginning a hundred years ago today. Between 1 July and 18 November 1916 more than a million men were killed … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, Literature, Modernism, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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Europe, 1914: The Beginning
To commemorate the centenary of the Great War, McFarlin Library Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be hosting a number of exhibits from 2014-2018 focusing on different aspects of the war. The first exhibit in this series “Europe, … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, exhibit, general, Great War, history, university of tulsa, War, World War I, World War One
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