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Rural School Houses in Early Oklahoma (open access)

Rural School Houses in Early Oklahoma

Article chronicles how schools were funded and built within rural communities of the Indian Territory.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Balyeat, F. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Autumn 1944 (open access)

Necrology, Autumn 1944

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including William Balser Skirvin, Enloe Vassallo Vernor, Napoleon D. Blackstone, and Iser H. Nakdimen.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Branson, Fred P.; Martin, Benjamin & Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Appraisal of the Lands of the Choctaws and Chickasaws by the Dawes Commission (open access)

The Appraisal of the Lands of the Choctaws and Chickasaws by the Dawes Commission

Article chronicles how the Dawes Commission broke apart the tribal lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes in an effort to prepare them for settlement.
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: Brown, Loren N.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
WASP_03-2016-015-210 (open access)

WASP_03-2016-015-210

Copies of three articles on thunderstorms as they relate to aviation by Robert N. Buck, taken from the magazine, Air Facts, and compiled by the contract pilot school at Avenger Field for the use of its students.
Date: February 11, 1944
Creator: Buck, Robert N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dissolution of the Wichita Reservation: Part 1 (open access)

Dissolution of the Wichita Reservation: Part 1

Article begins to chronicle how the Cherokee Commission allotted lands in the Wichita Reservation in an effort to dissolve the region for settlement.
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dissolution of the Wichita Reservation: Part 2 (open access)

Dissolution of the Wichita Reservation: Part 2

Article continues to chronicle how the Cherokee Commission allotted lands in the Wichita Reservation in an effort to dissolve the region for settlement. This article focuses on the Wichita tribe's efforts to receive appropriate allotments within the community.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Beginnings of the Oklahoma State Hospital Association (open access)

The Beginnings of the Oklahoma State Hospital Association

Article chronicles how the Oklahoma State Hospital Association was created during the state's infancy in celebration of the association's 25th anniversary.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Clinton, Fred S.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
First Hospitals in Tulsa (open access)

First Hospitals in Tulsa

Article chronicles the establishment of the Tulsa Hospital Association and the subsequent first hospitals within the city.
Date: Spring 1944
Creator: Clinton, Fred S.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
James Hugh McBirney: 1870-1944 (open access)

James Hugh McBirney: 1870-1944

Article chronicles the career of James Hugh McBirney, bookkeeper of the Tulsa Banking Company, the first banking institution in the city of Tulsa.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Clinton, Fred S.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Networking with China (open access)

Networking with China

This paper presents the history and current status Of computer networking between IHEP in Beijing, China and the rest of the world, starting with no links at the beginning of 1987 thru X.25 public networks and dial up links, to the installing, in March 1993, of one of the first dedicated 64 kbps satellite computer links between China and the outside world. In May 1994, IHEP became the first Chinese institution to have a fully operational world-wide Internet connection. Experience with this dedicated link between SLAC and IHEP will be presented together with future plans to add a land line between KEK and IHEP and to extend the links within China.
Date: April 1, 1944
Creator: Cottrell, R. L. A.; Granieri, C.; Fan, Lan; Xu, Rongsheng & Karita, Yukio
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sir William Johnson, Baronet (open access)

Sir William Johnson, Baronet

Article chronicles the life and military career of Sir William Johnson, an Irish immigrant who lead Indigenous troops into battle against the French during the King George's War in the state of New York. Johnson was also appointed as an Indian Agency Commissioner.
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: Dailey, W. N. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
James Sanford Davenport: Lawyer, Statesman and Judge (open access)

James Sanford Davenport: Lawyer, Statesman and Judge

Article chronicles the life of James Sanford Davenport, a prominent lawyer and judge based in the state of Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1944
Creator: Doyle, Thomas H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Heritage of the Oklahoma Child (open access)

The Heritage of the Oklahoma Child

Article romanticizes the history of Oklahoma as a tribute to patriotism during World War II.
Date: Winter 1944
Creator: Evans, Charles
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
New Hope Seminary: 1844-1897 (open access)

New Hope Seminary: 1844-1897

Article details the establishment and impact of the New Hope Seminary, a girls' missionary school within the Choctaw Nation.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokee Occupance in the Oklahoma Ozarks and Prairie Plains (open access)

Cherokee Occupance in the Oklahoma Ozarks and Prairie Plains

Article details how the Cherokee lands were taken over and modified to become livable for settlers during a process known as occupance.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Hewes, Leslie
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations- Retrospect and Prospect (open access)

The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations- Retrospect and Prospect

Article reprinted from The Jewish Forum discussing the importance of Hillel for Jewish students across college campuses.
Date: October 1944
Creator: Kaplan, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip (open access)

Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip

Article recounts the experiences of G. E. Lemon as he traveled from Kansas to Oklahoma during the region's pioneering days in the late 1800s.
Date: Winter 1944
Creator: Lemon, G. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Spring 1944 (open access)

Necrology, Spring 1944

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Solomon Andrew Layton, William Origen Beall, Wilson Alexander Chase, Robert Hutton Chase, William Lester Chase, Sallie Rogers McSpadden, Edward Jackson Gilder, and Charles Wheeler.
Date: Spring 1944
Creator: Martin, Benjamin; Williams, Robert L.; Fullerton, Eula & Campbell, Harry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Story of the Oklahoma Boundaries (open access)

Story of the Oklahoma Boundaries

Article explains the territorial disputes that shaped the boundaries of the state.
Date: Winter 1944
Creator: Melvin, M. E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lines Written on an Indian Face (open access)

Lines Written on an Indian Face

Article pays homage to a portrait of an Indigenous woman's face that rests on the side of a building's wall in a small town in Oklahoma by reflecting on the community's history.
Date: Spring 1944
Creator: Moore, Jessie Randolph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Summer 1944 (open access)

Necrology, Summer 1944

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Thomas Mayberry Randolph, Joseph Patrick O’Brien, James J. Savage, and Albert Lyman Welsh.
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: Moore, Jessie Randolph & Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Autumn 1944 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Autumn 1944

Notes and Documents column including notes regarding receiving copies of The Chronicles, a record of the State Capital Commission, corrections for the magazine, the biographies of Tom Dora and John James Abert, the American Indian Exposition, records of the Oklahoma War memorial, and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 24, 1944.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1944 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1944

Notes and Documents column including notes regarding Masonic organizations within Indian Territory, St. John's Day celebrations, Cherokee history, members of the Cherokee Lodge, Tuckabatche Micco's grave, the Oklahoma Military academy established during World War II, and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of the Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on January 27, 1944.
Date: Spring 1944
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 1944 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 1944

Notes and Documents column including resolutions honoring Colonel A. N. Leecraft, an announcement of a memorial to Joseph Samuel Murrow, excerpts from accounts of the Masonic lodges, a list of the recent acquisitions to the society's library, a list of names for the Oklahoma War Memorial, a list of military camp papers received by historical society, a list of Oklahoma newspapers, and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical society held on April 27, 1944.
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History