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Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Description: Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946

Description: Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Rex Brinlee: The Man and His Escape

Description: This article tells the story of notorious criminal Rex Brinlee, who is best known for his multiple escapes from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The article interweaves the details of his crimes with larger state events, including the McAlester Prison Riot.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Reavis, Jack Anthony
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Building and Promoting Their Place: The Clegerns of ‘89

Description: Article discusses the Clegern family and sheds light on a crucial time in the growth of three different Oklahoma cities. William Clegern and his son, Harry, were entrepreneurs who found opportunity in the 1889 Land Run. In addition, they influenced the development of Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Henryetta.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Clegern, Wayne M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Cooperator Farmer Building Contour Ridges Using A Kelly Long Wing Plow/Muskogee Project/Morris Camp

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED cooperator farmer with horse drawn equipment building contour ridges using a Kelly long wing plow and sodding them to Bermudagrass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cooperator building pasture contour ridges using a Kelly long wing plow. To be spot sodded to Bermuda grass."
Date: April 23, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

A Will of Iron: Dr. M. L. Peter and the Oklahoma City-County Health Department

Description: Article explores M. L. Peter's career in public health and contributions to the Oklahoma City community. Peter served for fifteen years as director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, bringing polio vaccination clinics and improved sanitation practices to the Oklahoma City Area.
Date: Winter 2016
Creator: Peter, Stephen B.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Henryetta, 1911

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Henryetta in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: April 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Henryetta, Undated

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Henryetta in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Morris, 1914

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Morris in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: April 1914
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Waite Phillips Company, 1920

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Okmulgee in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: September 1923
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Waite Phillips Company, 1920

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Okmulgee in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: September 1923
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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