Notes and Documents, Summer 2015 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2015

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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2013 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2013

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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2017 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2017

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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2007 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2007

Notes and Documents column including excerpts from the unfinished manuscript entitled "Cushion of Confidence," by Theresa Galloway Holman, wife of Oklahoma Senator H. H. Holman, who served in the first Oklahoma Senate from 1907-1909. In her manuscript, Mrs. Holman speaks about the early politics of Oklahoma including the adoption of a constitution, celebrating statehood in 1907, and general comments as a wife of the first legislature.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Turner, Alvin O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2006 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2006

Notes and Documents column including a short document describing the history and contents of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce Collection that was donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1994. It also includes a short description of the Henry and Cunningham Mercantile Company Collection manuscripts located in the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Anderson, Clayton; Everett, Dianna & O'Dell, Larry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2014

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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2014

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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2019 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2019

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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, September 1935 (open access)

Notes and Documents, September 1935

Notes and Documents column including the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 25, 1935.
Date: Autumn 1935
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, June 1938 (open access)

Notes and Documents, June 1938

Notes and Documents column including the minutes for the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society held from May 5-6, 1938 and the minutes for the special meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on April 26, 1938.
Date: Summer 1938
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History