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Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, July 26, 1973

Description: This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 26, 1973. Included is a list of gifts received by the organization as well as a list of new annual, life, and honorary members.
Date: Autumn 1973
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Autumn 1973

Description: Notes and Documents column including an announcement that Will Roger's papers will be made public, a poem about going home after plagues and war, an announcement from the Secretary of the Interior that proclaims all American Indians must cut their hair, an a news story on a flood that devastated Eufaula.
Date: Autumn 1973
Creator: Stout, Joseph A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Autumn 1973

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses Paula McSpadden Love, the curator of the Will Rogers memorial and a life-long educator.
Date: Autumn 1973
Creator: Collins, Reba N.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Edward P. McCabe and the Langston Experiment

Description: Article chronicles the activism done by Edward P. McCabe, the first African-American person elected to a public office outside of the South, as he encouraged more African-American people to settle within Oklahoma Territory. The article tells his story through newspaper articles published at the time.
Date: Autumn 1973
Creator: Roberson, Jere W.
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Homesteading the Strip

Description: Article chronicles how the United States government opened the land called Cherokee Strip for settlement and the ensuing struggles of the settlers and the American Indians who lived there.
Date: Autumn 1973
Creator: Lucas, Robert C. & Gilstrap, Lucille
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Notes and Documents, Winter 1973-74

Description: Notes and Documents column including editor's notes on the minutes schedules, a narrative on the historical significance of persimmons in the country, the first verse of a Civil War poem, a note on the opening of the Jim Thorpe Home, a note on the anniversary of the Battle of Prairie Grove, and a note on the placement of Oklahoma's state capital.
Date: Winter 1973
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Episode at Cornwall

Description: Article chronicles how the Cornwall Mission School was shut down due to rumors of poor management spurred by an interracial marriage between one of the school's agent's daughters and an alumni of Cherokee origin.
Date: Winter 1973
Creator: Delly, Lillian
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Northeastern's Seminary Hall

Description: Article chronicles the history of the building that hosted Seminary Hall, the first co-educational public seminary school in the world, located on the Northeastern State College campus.
Date: Winter 1973
Creator: Halliburton, R., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 1973

Description: Notes and Documents column including an announcement of the distribution of the annual index, a note on the 80th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Oklahoma Historical Society, a note on the society processing rare photographs from Alice Robertson, an announcement of the destruction of Chimney Rock, memorials for deceased society members, a note on the history of The Payne County Democrat and the press in Oklahoma, a note on the historical marker from 1886, and an excerpt from "Fate… more
Date: Summer 1973
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Necrology, Summer 1973

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Morton Rector Harrison, a World War I veteran active in community service, and Edward Everett Dale, a pioneer educator and former Harvard instructor.
Date: Summer 1973
Creator: Phillips, H. Milt & Gibson, Arrell M.
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Annual and Quarterly Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and its Board of Directors, April 26, 1973

Description: This section includes the minutes of the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on April 26, 1973. Included is a response from Florence O. Wilson on becoming an honorary member of the society, a list of gifts received by the organization, and a list of new annual and life members.
Date: Summer 1973
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Ardmore Tragedy: Local History on an International Level

Description: Article chronicles the media storm of misinformation that followed the shooting of three college student in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The students were parked on the side of the road when two plain clothes policemen pulled over to apprehend them for public urinating. The ensuing scuffle left two of the students dead, one of which was related to Pascual Ortis Rubio, the president of the Republic of Mexico.
Date: Summer 1973
Creator: Hoffman, Abraham
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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