[Women's Sports] Women’s wrestling photograph archive documenting amateur competitions, gymnasium training, and professional wrestling performers between the 1940s and the 1970s. The images record women participating in a sport historically dominated by men, illustrating the gradual emergence of female wrestling as both an amateur athletic activity and a professional entertainment.....
[African American Education][Segregation] Akin, Emma E. A Booker T. Washington School. 1938. Children’s educational narrative describing the founding and development of a Black rural school in Oklahoma modeled on the educational philosophy of Booker T. Washington. Written by a white elementary school teacher working in Drumright, Oklahoma, the book documents.....
Two press photographs, circa 1970, documenting Chicano activism and leadership during the Mexican American civil rights organizing of the period. One photograph records a walkout by Mexican American participants at a national conference; the other shows Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales engaging residents of a Denver housing project. Two silver gelatin press.....
[Indigenous] [Latin America] León-Portilla, Miguel. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind. Translated from the Spanish by Jack Emory Davis. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. First English edition. 241 pages. 8vo. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher’s yellow cloth binding. A landmark work of Mesoamerican intellectual.....
U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs. Group of eight bulletins issued 1927–1928, documenting federal Indian education and cultural policy systems in the United States during the interwar period. The material documents the system of government-directed Native American assimilation and education through officially distributed bulletins, revealing how federal.....
[Native American][Mining] Native American land Coal Mining Archive, documenting the federal intervention and supervision of coal extraction in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations during the rapid expansion of industrial mining in the 1890s. The reports were issued under the authority of the Act of March 3, 1891, “for the protection.....
Native American school postcard archive documenting the federal program of Indian education at Cantonment, Oklahoma, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1910s, showcasing how the United States imposed systemic colonialist ideals onto Native children within boarding school environments through regimented housing, group instruction, uniform dress, and institutional instruction. The group bears on.....
[Education] Album from Woman studying Teaching at Central State Teachers College in Edmond, Oklahoma. 1922-1923. Filled with 48 original silver gelatin print photographs, 52 pieces of ephemera, and 36 handwritten notes from various classmates. Ephemera includes newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, programs, poems, and notes from friends. Photographs of various sizes.....
U.S. Army and Navy holiday dinner menus and related materials, 1929 to 1945, document organized communal life, ceremonial observance, and institutional identity within the American military across the interwar and World War II periods. The group includes menus for Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Armistice Day, and Navy Day, situating the material.....
[WWI][National Guard][WWII] Primary-source archive documenting U.S. Army transportation command operations supporting Allied logistics following the Normandy landings, centered on the development of Cherbourg as a critical supply hub. Assembled from the career of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Sullivan, the collection spans World War I mobilization through World War II and.....
World War I military aviation. Primary-source photographs documenting early United States military aviation training at Henry Post Airfield, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, during the formative period of the U.S. Army Air Service following its establishment in May 1918. The images record the first generation of American military pilots operating within a......
