Collection, 1888-1986

Inventory | Photographs | Oversize | Framed Items |
Contact Information

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Description and Scope:
OAMC school work and manuscripts of articles by Jessie Thatcher Bost, OAMC publications and photographs of Thatcher family, friends, and the OAMC campus.

Collection No. 90-022

Arranged alphabetically by subject and title of article or publication.

Access to this collection is unrestricted.

Finding aid in the repository: folder level control
2 legal boxes, 1 newspaper box, 1 oversize folder

Gift of Armon Bost, 1990

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Contact:
Special Collections and University Archives
Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Okla. 74078-1071
Phone: 405-744-6311
Email: libscua@okstate.edu

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Inventory
Box 1
Folder

1. Alumni Association (OAMC) programs, 1900, 1902
2. Alumni Association, Class of 1902, 6th Anniv. - address by Jessie Thatcher
3. Class notebook, c. 1888. Cawker City, Kansas
4. Class notebook (Prof. Magruder's class), includes minutes of first OAMC Literary Society meeting, 1895
5. Class notebook, 1896-97
6. "Classes of Soil, Culture, and Economical Peculiarities and Factors of Agriculture" by Jessie Thatcher
7. College Yell (OAMC) and A.M.C. ribbon
8. Commencement programs (OAMC), 1898, 1899, 1901
9. Correspondence. Bradford Knapp to Jessie Thatcher Bost, July, 1925 [naming Thatcher Hall]
10. Correspondence. Elsie Parker to Jessie Thatcher Bost, April 10, 1942 [remininscences]
11. "The Dawning of the Twentieth Century" address by Jessie Thatcher, OSU Graduation 1897
12. "The Dawning of the Twentieth Century" by Jessie Thatcher. Reprints
13. Diploma. Bachelor of Science, OAMC, June 9, 1897. [Bost Room wall: duplicate. Original with 91-004, oversized.]
14. "Economic Elements of Agriculture in Oklahoma" by Jessie Thatcher
15. "Economic Wastes of Agriculture" by Jessie Thatcher
16. "Educational Systems" by Jessie Thatcher
17. "Famous American Women of the Past" by Jessie Thatcher
18. "Favorite Quotations of Stillwater People", 1902
19. Fiftieth Anniversary of OAMC, 1941. Program, invitation religious service.
20. "Fifty Years of Oklahoma ... at A&M, 1907-1957"
21. "Forms of Farm Capital; and Who Pays the Freight" by Jessie Thatcher
22. Founders' Day Banquet (OAMC), Dec. 28, 1928
23. Governor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. Recognition of Jessie Thatcher Bost, 1986
24. "History of Costuming" by Jessie Thatcher
25. "How I Worked My Way Through College" by Jessie Thatcher
26. "Literary Ideals of America" by Jessie Thatcher
27. "The Literary Societies of A and M" by Jessie Thatcher
28. Memorial resolution for Jessie Thatcher Bost by OAMC Board of Regents, Mar. 8, 1963 - copy
29. Miscellaneous.
    1. Ariel Octet Concert program, n.d.;
    2. Oklahoma Black Gold Certificate (One Hundred Oklahoma Dollars)
30. "Miss Jessie Thatcher: Pioneer College Graduate in Oklahoma Territory" by John Creswell and William Segal
31. "Nature and Extent of the Agricultural Society" by Jessie Thatcher
32. Pamphlet. New Dormitories of the OAMC. Jessie Thatcher Hall, Carter C. Hanner Hall, 1925
33. OAMC. Yesterday and Today.
34. OAMC. A Book of Photographs, 1955
35. Oklahoma Historical Shrines, n.d.
36. Oklahoma School Herald. Jan. 1899, Feb. 1900 (removed to 97-039, small collections)
37. "Physical Education" by Jessie Thatcher
38. The Populist Supplement. Commencement Week at OAMC, 1897
39. Promotional brochure for OAMC, 1894-95
40. The Sigma Literary Society, 1893-1897, 1951
41. [The tarriff [sic] question...] by Jessie Thatcher -1st page missing
42. Transcript (OAMC) of Jessie Thatcher. Notarized copy dated Aug. 16, 1928
43. "Who Rules the World" by Jessie Thatcher
44. "The World of Work" by Jessie Thatcher
45. Sketch pad

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Photographs
Box 1:

1. OAMC graduation, 1897. Old Central Interior (2) N44561,N4562
2. Old Central (1)
3. Jessie Thatcher and friends. (2) N4556
4. OAMC students(?) incl. Jessie Thatcher.
5. OAMC student group incl. Kate Neal, A.C. Magruder N4579
6. Jennie, Jessie, Hester, Frany Thatcher
7. Jessie Thatcher, Hester Thatcher
8. Jessie and Hester Thatcher in a group seated outside Alcott Scott, Stillwater
9. Alcott High School, students and teachers inc. Jessie Thatcher
10. Henry and Jessie Thatcher Bost, ca. 1902 N4551
11. Henry A. Bost, ca. 1895 N4563
12. OAMC students incl. Henry A. Bost, 1896 N4592
13. Rufus J. Bost
14. Thatcher family reunion, ca. 1920s
15. Thatcher house, 1201 S. Husband
16. Ike Hopper and ___ Babcock
17. Freeman E. Miller, English professor, 1897
18. John W. Thatcher family, ca. 1896 N4584
19. OAMC students incl. Jessie and Hester Thatcher N4552
20. OAMC first graduating class, 1896
21. Thatcher family(?) friends(?) posed by a piano incl. Jessie Thatcher
22. Thatcher Hall, ca. 1929. Women sitting in grass in front
23. Williams Hall while building addition. Excavation, 1900
24. Stillwater. 7th and Main. Armistice Day?
25. Building Coyle bridge, ca. 1909
26. Cimarron Valley Bank, Coyle, ca. 1900
27. Thatcher Drilling Rigs
28. OAMC students and wagon with top incl. Tom Hartman, 1897 N899
29. OAMC students posed, one with guitar (Sigma Serenaders). Standing L to R: Tom Hartman, Cora Miltimore, Noris Gilbert, WIlla Adams, George Bowers, Minnie Dysart. Seated: Earl Myers, Jessie Thatcher, ca. 1896 N900
30. OAMC students inlcuding Jessie Thatcher
31. Unidentified people
32. Contact sheets, negative numbers

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Oversize

1. The Daily Oklahoma State Capital, June 10, 1897
2. Banner, Oklahoma State, ca. 1932
3. Diploma. Bachelor of Science. School of Science and Literature Standardized, May 28, 1939.

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Framed Items

1. Jessie Thatcher Bost graduation photos and commencement program, 1897 - Bost Room wall
2. Certification. Jessie Thatcher Bost holds Bachelor of Science in Science and Literature, March 15, 1958
3. Portraits, Jessie Thatcher (2) - Bost Room wall

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