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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

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

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

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

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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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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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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

Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, January 25, 1973

Description: This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on January 25, 1973. Included is a list of gifts received by the organization and a list of new annual members.
Date: Spring 1973
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 1973

Description: Notes and Documents column including a note about the historic site of Webbers Falls, a history of the railroad being built through this site, and a list of books catalogued by the library of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 1973
Creator: McFadden, Marguerite
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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
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