Douglas Hale, collector
Papers, ca. 1910-1992

SERIES: Ethnic Groups in Oklahoma | Germans from Russia | Books | Photographs | Transparencies

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Correspondence, articles, family histories, news clippings, research notes, books and photographs* collected by Hale for lecture and books on ethnic settlers in Oklahoma.

Hale, emeritus professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University, gives talks on ethnic groups in Oklahoma and on genealogical research. Research material includes reminiscences of religious and ethnic persecution in Europe and descriptions of life in the Plains State.

Arranged in two series: 1. Ethnic Groups in Oklahoma; 2. Germans from Russia.

*Photographs housed separately

Access to this collection is unrestricted

Preliminary finding aid

Collection No. 93-036

2 linear feet (2 record storage boxes; 1 document box)

Gift of Douglas Hale, 1993

Oklahoma State University Libraries
Special Collections and University Archives
Stillwater, OK 74078-1071

Ethnic Groups in Oklahoma
BOX 1
Folder:

1. American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
2. Counties. Coal
3. Counties. Kay
4. Counties. Kiowa
5. Counties. Latimer
6. Counties. Lincoln
7. Counties. Logan
8. Counties. Okmulgee
9. Counties. Pittsburg
10. "Culture Areas of Oklahoma" by Michael Roark
11. Dust Bowl migration
12. Economic data
13. Emigration
14. Immigration
15. Lecture notes
16. Nationalities. British Isles
17. Nationalities. Bulgarians
18. Nationalities. Czechs
19. Nationalities. Czechs. Caha, Anton
20. Nationalities. Czechs. Correspondence
21. Nationalities. Czechs. Makovsky, Boh
22. Nationalities. Danes
23. Nationalities. Germans
24. Nationalities. Germans. Family histories
25. Nationalities. Germans. Newspapers
26. Nationalities. Italians
27. Nationalities. Jews
28. Nationalities. Poles
29. Natiomalities. Ukranians
30. Maps (transparencies)
31. Medicine
32. Population, 1981
33. Texas and Oklahoma demographics by county, 1910-1950. Transparencies in cardboard frames - need to be removed from frames

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Germans from Russia
BOX 2
Folder:

1. Census
2. Churches
3. Correspondence
4. Counties. Alfalfa
5. Counties. Beaver
6. Counties. Blaine
7. Counties. Canadian
8. Counties. Comanche
9. Counties. Custer
10. Counties. Ellis
11. Counties. Garfield
12. Counties. Grant
13. Counties. Greer
14. Counties. Harper
15. Counties. Kingfisher
16. Counties. Kiowa
17. Counties. Kiowa. Statistics, maps
18. Counties. Payne
19. Counties. Payne. Articles in Russian, German
20. Counties. Payne. Friedemann family
21. Counties. Payne. Salem Lutheran Church
22. Counties. Pottawatomie
23. Counties. Major
24. Counties. Noble
25. Counties. Oklahoma
26. Counties. Texas
27. Counties. Tillman
28. Counties. Washita
29. Counties. Washita. Amen family
30. Counties. Woods
31. Counties. Woodward
32. Family history questionnaires
33. Kline family
34. Lecture. "From the Steppes to the Plains: The Germans from Russia in Western Oklahoma," 1992
35. Maps
36. Meissinger family
37. Meissinger family. Letters I
38. Meissinger family. Letters II
39. Meissinger family. Letters III
40. Mennonite history
41. Miscellaneous
42. Miscellaneous. "General Conference Mennonite Missions and Native Americn Religions (Part II)," Mennonite Life, June 1989
43. Newspapers
44. Notes, 1991-1992. Articles
45. Notes, 1991-1992. Articles, AHSGR Journal, 1978-1984
46. Notes, 1991-1992. Correspondence
47. Oblander, Bertha. Interview and 2 cassette tapes

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    Books
    Folder:

48. Heizer, Eunice E. Glimmer on the Hill, 1973
49. Tupper, Frida B. Down in Bull Creek, 1973
50. Petter, Rodolphe. Mennonite missionary to Cheyenne

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Photographs
BOX 1
Folder:

1. Germans from Russia
2. Bieberdorf family
3. Farhar, John J.
4. Friedemann family
5. Just, Martin
6. Laufer family
7. Martin family
8. Meissinger, Fred
9. Nusz, George Peter
10. Peters-Bekker family
11. Russia
12. Steigman family
13. Voth family (photocopies)

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    Transparencies
    Folder:

14. Former Soviet Union
15. Mennonite migration
16. Mennonite trek through Turkistan, 1880-1884
17. Mennonite communites in Oklahoma?
18. Germans from Russia living in Oklahoma
19. Germans in Russia, 1763-1914
20. Settlement of the Volga and Black Sea, 1763-1861
21. Mennonite churches in Oklahoma

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