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Mayo Building in Tulsa

Description: Photograph of Mayo Building on the corner of West Fifth Street and South Main Street in Tulsa. Several automobiles are parked on othe street. Two women are standing on the corner and another individual is crossing the street. A man is on the sidewalk.
Date: [..1940]
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Northeast Oklahoma (NEO) 2

Description: A small photograph postcard showing the Northeast Oklahoma (NEO) 2, 4-4-0, two-truck electric-powered box cab. (Note: pole and gear on roof). Written on postcard: "Dear Sir, Please send back 6 in trade for the neg's I sent you or send back the 6 I sent you. My address is Gordon Zahoritz [?] RFD 2 McHenry, ILL. Sincerely Gordon Zahoritz". Addressed to P. George, 1128 NW 12th. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Martha Washington 1-1/2 cent cancelled stamp June 1940 on postcard.
Date: [..1940]
Creator: Zahoritz, Gordon
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, December 1940

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including William Claudius McAlister, Lillian Gallup Haskell, Charles Robinson Hume, and Samuel Emmet Swinney.
Date: Winter 1940
Creator: Williams, Robert L. & Cosgrove, Elizabeth Williams
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, December 1940

Description: Notes and Documents column including notes regarding the collection of narratives from people who lived during Oklahoma's pioneering days, excerpts from those narratives, and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on October 24, 1940.
Date: Winter 1940
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a control plot, Red Plains Experiment station. Average annual soil loss from the Bermuda grass plot, bare hard fallow plot and de-surfaced plot. About 10 inches of the surface soilwas removed from the de-surfaced area in 1929 when the experiment was started. This area has been planted to continuous cotton with rows up an down the slope. OK-3348.
Date: December 1940
Creator: Elwell, H. M.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Dr. Daniel Morris Hailey

Description: Article honors Dr. Daniel Morris Hailey, a former private of the Confederate Army and wounded army doctor who opened the first drug store within the Choctaw Nation.
Date: Autumn 1940
Creator: Williams, Robert L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, September 1940

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses Arthur Leason Severance, owner of a lumbering company and the Malone Hardware Company.
Date: Autumn 1940
Creator: Williams, Robert L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, September 1940

Description: Notes and Documents column including dairy excerpts from the assistant surgeon Leonard McPhail as he traveled throughout the American frontier, a biographical sketch of Chief Kias of the Cheyenne tribe, and the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 25, 1940.
Date: Autumn 1940
Creator: Jones, Harold W. & Ediger, Theodore A.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Railway Company (ORY) Streetcar 115

Description: A photograph negative showing the Oklahoma Railway (ORY) streetcar 115, at end of Robinson line, at Robinson and about N.W. 32nd Street, Oklahoma City, OK. "This is the smallest type of car that was used there at that time". [see also 2008.008.7016]
Date: Autumn 1940
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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