Subject collection. Letters, reports, publications, and manuscripts reflecting the history of Oklahoma and of its American Indian tribes and nations, including correspondence (1813-1839) from U.S. government officials concerning policy toward the...
Indian tribe. Official correspondence, letter press books, reports, chiefs' messages, speeches of delegates, proceedings, laws, court decisions, acts, leases, election returns, registers of removal claims, and clippings related to the affairs of...
Anthropologist. Correspondence (1954-1974); interviews (1958-1976); research notes (n.d.); manuscripts (n.d.); and publications (1818-1958) relating to Rachlin's research on the Sac and Fox and the Shawnee Indians. Also included are field notes...
Missionary. A photocopy of the autobiography (ca. 1907) of James Slover, a missionary to the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War. The typewritten manuscript contains his observations of Cherokee Indian attitudes and opinions concerning slavery,...
Attorney. Personal and business correspondence (1893-1948) relating to Hume's family, his attendance at the University of Oklahoma, his contact with the university as an alumnus, and his law practice as an attorney for the Caddo Indians. Also...
Collector. An original journal (1850) kept by Joseph R. Smith of New York, in which he recorded his experiences while on a surveying expedition through Indian Territory. Entries detail the expedition's encounters with hostile Comanches, friendly...
Collector. Correspondence (1911, 1931) relating to the works of Theodore F. Brewer, and short manuscripts by Brewer concerning Methodism in Indian Territory, entitled ""The Indians of Oklahoma,"" ""Muskogee Ministerial...
Indian chief and Presbyterian minister. Session minutes (1886-1900) of the Tali Hekia Presbyterian Church, Blue County, Indian Territory; Sunday school attendance records (1925-1926) of the Presbyterian church, Wapanucka, Oklahoma; typescripts of...
Collector. A ledger (1870) with entries in the Choctaw language belonging to Wilson N. Jones, a principal chief of the Choctaws, and containing information regarding a general store he operated in Cade, Indian Territory. Also included is a copy of...
Poet. A poem (1878) by McKinney written in the Choctaw language and entitled Iti Hishi Yama Isht Chit Haya Va Lihohe or A Leaf That Reminds Me of Thee. An English translation is included.
Military post. Correspondence documenting Fort Gibson's significance in carrying out the U. S. government's Indian policy regarding the Indian pacification program following the Civil War. Included in the collection are letters sent (1879-1890),...
Interpreter. A Comanche-English dictionary (ca. 1895), with a Comanche alphabet and diacritical markings, compiled by Detrick while serving as an interpreter for the Red Store Trading Post at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Also included in the...
Indian school. Catalogs (1885-1890) of the academy listing trustees, officers, faculty, students, course offerings, and a general history and description of the school; a copy (1884) of ""Pages from Cherokee Indian History"" by...
Mercantile firm. Ledgers (1896-1922) in which the daily commerce of this Spiro, Oklahoma, general store and cotton-ginning operation were recorded. Among these are day books (1898-1918); cash books and notary records (1904-1906); funeral records...
Geography professor. Research notes and township maps (ca. 1937) of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, on which Hewes plotted the following data: which groups (categorized by degree of Indian blood, intermarried citizens, or freedmen) settled which...
Lawyer. Personal and business correspondence (1934-1953), mostly relating to Republican Party politics, with Hamilton Fish and John H. Kane the principal correspondents. Also included are government documents and other published materials...
Anthropologist. Correspondence (1926-1961); manuscripts (n.d.) of Marriott's books and articles; research notes (n.d.); and printed materials (1930-1968) accumulated by Marriott in the course of her research for her numerous books and articles...
Anthropologist. Correspondence (1949); notes (n.d.); and publications (1948-1951) concerning a field trip headed by Bell in 1949 to the Harlan Site, near Fort Gibson, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Included in the collection are notes (1950) by Kenneth...
Federal project. Book-length manuscripts, research and project reports (1937-1941) and administrative records (1937-1941) generated by the WPA Historic Sites and Federal Writers' projects for Oklahoma during the 1930s. Arranged by county and by...
Federal project. Reports (1937-1942) submitted by the WPA Archaeological Survey Project of Oklahoma, regarding sites excavated in thirteen counties of Oklahoma and the findings therein. Included are reports entitled ""Excavation of...
Subject file. Publications (1939-1975) of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other state and federal government agencies, along with reprints of articles regarding the American Indian. Included in the collection is a report (1970) entitled,...
Should I be reading this kind of story about Penney’s?; National advertising division of The Better Business Bureau; The headline I have been waiting for: ‘Sears to spend $4 Billion to revamp stores’; What I have learned in 60 years of...
The IRS is checking on the use of LIFO inventory valuation; Does Casper Weinberger know what he's talking about; By patting itself on its back, the Federal Trade; Commission almost broke its arm!; Answering a reporter's questions; Remember when the...
April 13, 1931, G.A. Pennock sent C.W. Bergquist a report titled: An Account of the Work of the Industrial Research Division. The Industrial Research Division was established in January, 1929 to centralize the test room study, the employee...
Case histories of the five operators and layout operators of the relay assembly test room. The histories are forms covering the test subjects family connections, personal qualities, home and community environment, and work history. Following these...
Case study of a relay assembly test room operator who was taken off the study because of her antagonistic attitude. The change in her behavior could be due to her poor health condition, perhaps anemia. Included are some of her health statistics...
Collection of miscellaneous documents, both typewritten and handwritten, pertaining to the Hawthorne project and the results obtained from the study. Based on data collected from 1928-1940. Included are transcripts of speeches, summary documents...
Comments on interviews in the station apparatus shop and a review of experience in connection with beginning the personnel counseling experiment. The experiment was designed as a more thorough interview process where the interviewer looked at...
Counseling record, entitled: Counseling in a group situation, by Phyllis Dodds. It contains detailed descriptions about the interviews, conversations, observations, as well as counselors own impressions, feelings, etc. which happened during the...
Describes the results of the test began April 25, 1927, concerning the effect of rest periods on the productivity of six girls who performed relay assembly work. These six participants were moved into the test room and their productivity was...
Description of work behavior related to incentives and of the relationship between the supervisors and employees in the station apparatus shop. Included are observations of employee work and analysis of interviews. The purpose is to outline what...
Detailed procedures for establishing the bank wiring test room, and selection criteria for the male workers in the test room group. Three reports on the subject of engineering study of human fatigue are included
Documents concerning research and planning regarding training supervisors in both technical skills and personnel skills. Included are ideas on logistics of the training as well as content.
Documents regarding creating a mathematical method for determining the tone of the interview by creating a ratio of negative to positive comments. Also included are charts analyzing interviews in groups of 100.
Five reports reviewing the personnel counseling experiment from January, 1936 to March, 1937. Included are the appendices about attitudes of short and long service employees, outline and suggestions for discussing the labor situation, and tables...
Included are graphs, tables, charts, and various notes on speed tests done to find a correlation between hours of sleep and speed in relay assembly. The tests were conducted on four of the operators in the relay assembly test room in 1930. The...
Included in this group are tables of vascular skin reaction readings as a measurement of fatigue. There is also an abstract of chapter 5, concerning the physiology and psychology of fatigue, from Edgar James Swifts book Psychology and the days...
Interview method, analysis, and development of training began in the Inspection Branch, moved to the Operating Branch, and in January 1930 throughout the Works. A December 1929 pamphlet titled A Plan for Improving Employee Relations was printed. ...