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Tag Archives: WWI
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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New in Digital Collections: January 2016
Special Collections added new materials to our digital collections site in January. We added a 1971 special issue of Oklahoma Impact Magazine with articles and interviews to our Tulsa Race Relations and Greenwood Cultural Materials section. Our collection of 300 … Continue reading
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Tagged impact magazine, stereoscope cards, tulsa race riot, World War I, WWI
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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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The Great War, 1915: Entrenchment Exhibit Extended
By popular demand, Special Collections and University Archives has extended the latest exhibit ‘The Great War, 1915: Entrenchment’ until August 31, 2015. This exhibit can be viewed Monday through Fridays from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
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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The Great War, 1915: Entrenchment
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives presents The Great War, 1915: Entrenchment, an exhibit focusing on the second year of World War I. Featuring photographs, artefacts, and books from a variety of World War I collections held by … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, History
Tagged aviation, collections, exhibit, Gallipoli, Great War, history, humanitarian relief, Lusitania, trench warfare, World War I, World War One, WWI
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New Acquisition: “The “Knights of Liberty” mob and the I.W.W. Prisoners at Tulsa, Okla.
In 1917, the United Stated entered the Great War, and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia had a number of ripple effects throughout American society, ultimately culminating in the Red Scare of 1919-1921. In Oklahoma, this highly patriotic anti-radicalism took several … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, Great War, history, radicalism, socialism, Tulsa, tulsa race riot, World War I, World War One, WWI, WWII
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World War I class project.
Dr. Jeff Drouin’s English 3733 class, on World War I has been engaged in a project this semester, examining some of the holdings of World War I materials held by this department. The students have completed their exhibits of WWI … Continue reading
“The Greatest Mother in the World”
As part of the ongoing exhibit of posters in Special Collections for Veterans Day, the students who created the exhibits also created entries for this blog. We will be posting these over the rest of the month of November. 1992.004.5.65-66 … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, posters, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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