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Ragtown: Wirt, Oklahoma, and the Healdton Boom

Description: Article describes the growth and subsequent problems of the Oklahoma oil-boom town of Wirt in Carter County, also known as Ragtown. Emerging overnight as the center of the Healdton Field, Ragtown provided shelter and work for hundreds of assorted oil-field characters.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Freeman, Elizabeth F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Education for Successful Living: University School at the University of Oklahoma, 1917-1973

Description: Article discusses the University School at the University of Oklahoma as a model of progressive education. Ellsworth Collings founded University School in 1917, a junior high and later high school. For fifty-six years it was to be a nexus of experimentation, observation, and practice exemplifying the ideals of Progressive education.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Mackie, Steven Wade
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Spring 1974

Description: For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 25, 1973.
Date: Spring 1974
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Muriel H. Wright, Historian of Oklahoma

Description: Article provides a biographical tribute to Muriel H. Wright, editor of The Chronicles of Oklahoma, writer, and educator. LeRoy H. Fischer discusses her career and the awards she received for her contributions to the record of Oklahoma's history.
Date: Spring 1974
Creator: Fischer, LeRoy H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Recollections of My Early Life

Description: Article describes the upbringing of Carl B. Albert, Oklahoma Congressman and Speaker of the House at the time the article was published, in North McAlester, Oklahoma. Albert shares his personal reminisces of his early home and his father's mining work.
Date: Spring 1974
Creator: Albert, Carl Bert
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0362

Description: Photograph taken at night of building in flames. Caption: "Fire that apparently originated in a nearby well house rages through a small two-story house in far northwest Oklahoma City Monday night."
Date: December 31, 1973
Creator: Campbell, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0174.0232]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Chain link fence on south side of Edmond dog pound provides little shelter from the elements for impounded animals."
Date: December 31, 1973
Creator: Neal, H. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0354.0672]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The widow of a former Black Muslim killed Saturday was arrested Monday afternoon but gave no clues in the execution-style slaying, police detectives said."
Date: December 31, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0361

Description: Photograph taken at night of firefighter surveying charred ruins of a smoldering building soon after a fire. Caption: "Fireman douses rubble at scene of $50,000 blaze in the 1200 block of S. May."
Date: December 30, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0363

Description: Photograph of a firefighter extinguishing a furniture fire with a fire hose. Caption: "Removed from the family room of the home of Mrs. Geneva Walker, 816 NW 66, is doused by a city fireman Sunday."
Date: December 30, 1973
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0627]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Teddy N. Cobb, Claremore senior and son of Mr. and Mrs. Tyrus R. Cobb, is a member of the Hotel and Restaurant Society and affiliated with Kappa Sigma fraternity."
Date: December 30, 1973
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0323.0390]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The leader of Oklahoma City's Black Muslim Sunday denied that either he or the sect was involved in the execution-style slaying Saturday of Mathew Lee."
Date: December 30, 1973
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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