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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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Location of the Battle of Round Mountains

Description: Article provides a summary of the information collected by the author from various sources about the location of the Battle of Round Mountain. Angie Debo discusses the debate over its precise location and the work of the Payne County Historical Society.
Date: Spring 1963
Creator: Debo, Angie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Coe-Spiva wedding

Description: Color photograph of wedding couple. Bride wearing floor length wedding gown, long veil, and carrying pink and white floral bouquet. Groom wearing white tuxedo, blue trim, blue ruffled shirt, blue bow tie and boutonniere.
Date: June 29, 1973
Partner: Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar

Glencoe, 1900

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Glencoe in Pawnee County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1900
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Glencoe, 1900

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Glencoe in Pawnee County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1900
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Glencoe, 1900

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Glencoe in Pawnee County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1900
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cows Grazing on A Contoured Furrowed Pasture/Stillwater Project

Description: Photograph of eleven cows grazing on a contour furrowed pasture, planted to Bermudagrass, buffalo, grama, and straminium. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Cows are here shown grazing on a contour furrowed field. The furrows have been planted to Bermuda grass and the predominating grasses of this of this virgin pasture are buffalo, grama, and straminium [sic]. Over pasturing in the early spring is considered detrimental."
Date: April 27, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Editorial: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 5, Number 4, December 1927

Description: Article consists of editorials regarding prominent people and organizations within Oklahoma. Included is an announcement for information regarding prominent men within Oklahoma history and a narrative on how the only issue of the Oklahoma War Chief was printed within Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1927
Creator: J. Y. B.; Thoburn, Joseph B. & Harris, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Early Days in Payne County

Description: Article narrates his experiences living in Payne County during its establishment in Oklahoma. Included are also his experiences working in community service and with the newspaper companies within the county.
Date: Spring 1925
Creator: Guthrey, E. Bee
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Stillwater, 1902

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Stillwater in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1902
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cushing, 1902

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Cushing in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1902
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ripley, 1903

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Ripley in Paine County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: February 1903
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Yale, Undated

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Yale in Payne County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: unknown
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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