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Crow Creek in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of the new channel on Crow Creek in Tulsa, Oklahoma showing a section of rip-rapping. The project is funded by the Works Progress Administration. OHS note: The location is likely near East 33rd Street and South Peoria Ave,
Date: 1933~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415.0081]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Walter Ferguson . . . because she is a nationally known newspaper woman, writing "The Woman's Point of View", a daily column of liberal, intelligent comment upon everything from domestic problems to world affairs for the Scripps-Howard newspapers"
Date: December 12, 1933
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Roadwork, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of bricks being removed from abandoned street car tracks for the repaving of third street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cars and heavy equipment are parked along the street in front of hotels and businesses such as Hyland Clothing, Kress and the Rialto Theater. View is looking west from Main Street.
Date: 1933~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1109.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Her Indian name is "Ah-Na-Wake," which means White Flower, and her Grandfather was Chief John Ross, Great Figure in Cherokee Tribal History, But Ann Ross Played Collegiate types when she first entered Motion Pictures."
Date: February 1, 1933
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The William Penn Elm Tree

Description: Article is a speech given by Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson when she donated an elm tree to the University of Tulsa to commemorate the famous treaty made between William Peen and the Delaware tribe.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Lawson, Roberta Campbell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

One Hundred Years Ago in the Region of Tulsa

Description: Article reports on the conditions of the Indian Territory as told by surveyors a hundred years from the date this article was published. These surveyors were tasked with determining whether the region was fit enough to relocate the Creek tribes to after their removal from the east.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Gardner, James H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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