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Notes and Documents, Fall 2019

Description: Notes and Documents column including John Truden's "The Great Southeastern Oklahoma Elephant Hunt," a short document describing the efforts to recapture two Asian elephants that escaped from the Carson and Barnes Circus near Hugo, Oklahoma, in July of 1975.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Truden, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2019

Description: Notes and Documents column including Phil Sutton's 'That Man Stone Photography: "Anything, Any time, Anywhere,'" a short document describing the history of That Man Stone Company, one of the most prolific photography studios before, and after, Oklahoma became a state.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Sutton, Phil
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2019

Description: Notes and Documents column including Larry O'Dell's "Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame," which provides short biographical sketches of Dianna Everett, Helen Freudenberger Holmes, Emmy Scott Stidham, and Mary Jo Watson, the 2019 inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2018-19

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document by written by Michael Bell about Oklahoma congressman James V. McClintic and the items he obtained and donated to the Oklahoma History Center from his travels in Europe after World War I.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Bell, Michael
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2018

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Sandra Stratton and Nudie Williams, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2018.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2018

Description: Notes and Documents column including a short article honoring Henrietta Mann and Bill Moore, two of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2018.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2018

Description: Notes and Documents column including "Oklahoma Through the Lens of Z. P. Meyers," a short article recounting the life and career of Zenas Phillip Meyers, professional photographer who owned and operated Meyers Photo Shop in Oklahoma City from 1928-1962. Today his surviving prints and negatives are archived at the Oklahoma Historical Society as part of the Z. P. Meyers/Barney Hillerman Photographic Collection.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Cornelius, Jerry L. & Sutton, Phil
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2017-18

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document translated by Levi Wilkins and annotated by John Truden written by Mennonite missionary S. S. Haury about the shooting of Running Buffalo, the conflict that precipitated it, and how the conflict was resolved.
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Wilkins, Levi & Truden, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2017

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document about the final package opened from the Century Chest, a package donated by the Colcord Family, and its contents.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Williams, Chad & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2017

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring John Carmichael, Clyde Ellis, John Erling, and Paul Lambert, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2017.
Date: Summer 2017
Creator: O'Dell, Larry & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2017

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document about artifacts from American Indian World War I soldiers at the Oklahoma Museum of History in the Oklahoma History Center, providing some key contextual details.
Date: Spring 2017
Creator: Reed, Matthew J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2016

Description: Notes and Documents column including a short article that describes the Oklahoma Historical Society artifact collections utilized in the exhibit "Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma," which tells the story of commerce in Oklahoma from 1719 to present day.
Date: Summer 2016
Creator: Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2016

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring L. V. and Pat Baker, Steven K. Gragert, Mike Larsen, and Arthur L. Tolson, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2016.
Date: Spring 2016
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2015-16

Description: Notes and Documents column including Chad Williams' "Crossroads of Commerce Exhibit Collections," which describes the collections utilized for the Oklahoma History Center's "Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma," an exhibit that tells the story of commerce in Oklahoma from 1719 to present day.
Date: Winter 2015
Creator: Williams, Chad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Note and Documents, Fall 2015

Description: Notes and Documents column including an article about the journals of David Pendleton Oakerhater, a Cheyenne Episcopal minister, and the history of his life.
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: Turner, Alvin O.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2015

Description: Notes and Documents column including Katie Bush's "The Oklahoma City Motorcycle Club," a short article describing the historical impact of the Oklahoma City Motorcycle Club and including various historic photographs related to the club.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Bush, Katie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2015

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Sally Bourne Ferrell, Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Edwin C. McReynolds, and John Wooley. who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2015.
Date: Spring 2015
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15

Description: Notes and Documents column including prophecies from the Oklahoma Century Chest, hundred-year predictions written in 1913 about the fields of religion, journalism, medicine, law, and education, as well as letters addressed to the leaders of banking and court leaders in 2013.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2014

Description: Notes and Documents column including the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2014

Description: Notes and Documents column including a short article honoring Linda Williams Reese and Mary Jane Warde, two of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. It also includes "The Story of the Location of the Capital" that was written by Thomas F. Mechan in 1913 and provides an account of Oklahoma politics during the state's early days.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.; Bass, Elizabeth M. B.; McMechan, Thomas F. & Williams, Chad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2014

Description: Notes and Documents column including Nicole Harvey's "From “Grand Excursion” to the “Fall of Babylon”: Oklahoma City’s First Fourth of July Celebration" which explores Oklahoma's first celebration of the Fourth of July in 1889. It also includes Paul Lambert's "The Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame: Kenny L. Brown and Loretta Y. Jackson" which honors two of the 2014 inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Harvey, Nicole & Lambert, Paul F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2013-14

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document about new resources made available by the Oklahoma Historical Society's John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick Research Center, which include prestatehood newspapers, the WKY, KTVY, KFOR film collection, and a searchable index of Hastain's Township Plats of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2013
Creator: Williams, Chad & Toney, Tabatha
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2013

Description: Notes and Documents column including Tara Damron's "In the Shadows of the Century Chest: Message to Future Generations," which describes the history and contents of the Century Chest, a time capsule that was buried on April 22, 1913, through the unique partnership of the First Lutheran Church and the Oklahoma Historical Society. The Century Chest was opened on April 22, 2013 and will be preserved by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Damron, Tara
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2013

Description: Notes and Documents column including an article honoring Eddie Faye Gates and Max Nichols, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. It also includes a short article titled "The Oklahoma Century Chest" that describes the Oklahoma Historical Society's temporary exhibit featuring items recovered from the one-hundred-year-old Century Chest time capsule.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.; Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Williams, Chad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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