Box 1
F 1-2: Biographical, n.d., 1922, 1928, 1931, 1933-1935, 1938-1939, 1941-1942, 1944-1945, 1948-1949, 1951.
These folders include biographical sketches of Elmer Thomas as well as cartoons and published photos of the senator and his wife.
F 3: Family Correspondence, 1930-1949.
Topics include: the family the Elmer Thomas. Correspondents include: Oscar Thomas, Deliah Thomas, J. B. Thomas, Charles B. Thomas, Fred V. Thomas, Wilford S. Thomas, E. Cleve Thomas, Mae Thomas, Worth Thomas, Koehler Thomas, Clema Thomas Grove, and Otis Thomas.
F 4-32: Personal Correspondence, 1924, 1926-1950, 1953, 1958.
Folders also contain inquiries about possible relatives of Elmer Thomas. There is also a lot of correspondence which Miss M. E. Pool as well as other staff handled. Topics include: Jed J. Johnson (Folder 6), Alfred P. Murrah (Folder 17), John J. Pershing (Folder 28), the family of Elmer Thomas, personal finance of Elmer Thomas, homes and haunts of Elmer Thomas, Fred M. Vinson (Folder 32), Woodrow Wilson, commodity exchanges, electioneering in Oklahoma, Greek letter societies, military service, practical politics in Oklahoma, speculation, Fort Gibson (Okla.), Medicine Park (Okla.), and Tenkiller Ferry Lake (Okla.). Correspondents include: Thomas D. McKeown (Folder 25), Scott Ferris (Folder 14), James Hamilton Lewis (Folder 12), Alphonso J. Jennings, Charles E. Coughlin (Folder 16), Henry G. Bennett (Folder 30), Russell B. Long (Folder 30), Alexander Wiley (Folder 28), Francis J. Myers (Folder 28), Glen Taylor (Folder 27), Arthur T. Stewart (Folder 29), Thomas P. Gore (Folder 29), Mac Q. Williamson, Joshua B. Lee (Folder 17), Hugo Black (Folder 17), Julian J. Rothbaum (Folders 17 and 31), Harold L. Ickes (Folder 19), Sam Rayburn (Folder 22), Wilburn Cartwright (Folder 23), Gene Autry (Folder 25), Carl Albert (Folder 25), Tom Steed (Folders 15, 25, and 29), William G. Stigler, Victor E. Wickersham (Folder 26), Chase National Bank of the City of New York (Folder 19), Oklahoma State Federation of Labor (Folder 31), National Peanut Council (Folder 28), Oklahoma Building and Loan League, Oklahoma City (Folder 18), Oklahoma State Federation of Labor (Folder 31), Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Reserve Officers Association of the United States, United States Federal Trade Commission, United States Military Academy, United States Navy Dept. (Folder 23), Veterans of Industry of America, R. D. "Elk" Elkins, Dwight Griswold (Folder 25), Roy V. Hoffman (Folder 18), H. G. House, Fred Jones (Folder 26), Charles W. Mason, Joe S. Morris, Allen G. Nichols (Folder 16), Henry R. North (Folder 30), and International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Folder 25).
Box 2
F 1: 1661 Crescent Place, Elmer Thomas's Apartment in Washington, D.C., 1927-1932, 1935, 1938-1939.
F 2-10: Bank Account Statements and Deposits, 1926-1933.
Topics include personal finance of Elmer Thomas.
F 11-23: Bills Paid, 1928-1938, 1945-1946.
Topics include personal finance of Elmer Thomas.
F 24-27: Checks, 1925-1933.
Topics include: personal finance of Elmer Thomas.
F 28: Income Tax Returns, 1917-1928.
Topics include: personal finance of Elmer Thomas.
Box 3
F 1-2: Account Statements of Stocks Bought and Sold for Elmer Thomas, 1928-1930, 1932-1933.
F 3-5: Receipts of Stocks Bought and Sold for Elmer Thomas, 1928-1930, 1933.
F 6: Trustee's Certificates in the Lawton Railway and Lighting Company, 1944.
Topics include: personal finance of Elmer Thomas.
F 7: Correspondence Regarding Stock Portfolio of Elmer Thomas, 1924-1926, 1929-1930, 1947.
F 8-9: Christmas Cards, n.d., 1929-1930, 1932, 1935-1937, 1945-1949.
F 10: Citations, n.d., 1935, 1941-1942, 1944, 1949.
Topics include awards to Elmer Thomas. Correspondents include: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home and National Aeronautic Association (U.S.).
F 11-21: Financial Engineering, 1933.
Folders 12-21 contain the original manuscript of the book, Financial Engineering. Folder 11 has correspondence about the book. Topics include: manuscripts by Elmer Thomas, inflation (finance), and money. Correspondents include Charles E. Coughlin.
F 22-30: Medicine Park, n.d., 1907-1910, 1912, 1916, 1920-1921, 1923-1930, 1932, 1935-1937, 1949.
Topics include homes and haunts of Elmer Thomas, Wichita Mountains (Okla.), John Kusmic, Medicine Park Company, M. B. Dickson, and H. D. Mitchell.
F 31-32: Forty Years a Legislator, 1954.
This is a memoir written by Elmer Thomas.
Box 4
F 1-5: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, n.d., 1916, 1924-1925.
Topics include: George Washington Masonic National Memorial (Alexandria, Va.), communism, Allegheny Mountains, Fort Sill (Okla.), Lawton Region (Okla.), Medicine Park (Okla.), Pennsylvania Turnpike (Pa.), and Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (Okla.).
F 6-25: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1926-1927, 1929-1937.
Topics include Abraham Lincoln, music score on Franklin D. Roosevelt (Folder 15), education law and legislation, petroleum in industry and trade, hot oil, and Oscar Thomas. Correspondents include: Scott Ferris (Folder 19), Charles N. Haskell, John C. Nichols, Victor E. Wickersham, Democratic Party (Okla.)State Central Committee (Folder 22), United States War Dept., and M. L. Wardell (Folder 25).
F 26-32: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1938-1939.
Topics include Evangeline Booth (Folder 32), William H. Murray, flags of the United States, Enid (Okla.) history, Cherokee Strip Celebration, and Wichita Mountains Easter Sunrise Service. Correspondents include Samuel W. King (Folder 31), National Broadcasting Company (Folder 28), Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester newspaper, and the American National Retail Jewelers Association (Folder 31).31.
F 33-41: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1940-1942.
Topics include: airlines, draft, and flight training. Correspondents include: Thomas E. Braniff (Folder 36), Stanley Draper (Folder 36), Robert L. Williams (Folder 38), American Legion (Folder 37), Oklahoma Historical Society (Folder 35), United States Dept. of Commerce (Folder 41), Clyde Garrett (Folder 40), Joe S. Morris (Folder 38), American Defenders, Inc. (Folder 36), Laundry Workers International Union (Folder 37), Arkon Baptist Journal (Folder 41), and Up and Down Drag (Folder 41).
F 42-50: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1943-1945.
Topics include: facsimile transmission in the United States, hay harvesting in the United States, military discharge, poll tax, World War II, Puerto Rico politics and government, Woolaroc (Okla.), Truman Highway Plan, Union of German American Patriots, and Union of German Patriots. Correspondents include Stanley Draper (Folder 50), American Legion (Folder 50), Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. (Folder 45), Radio Corporation of America (Folder 48), and Fred Jones (Folder 50).
F 51-59: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1946.
Topics include: military education and rationing in the United States. Correspondents include: Association of American Railroads (Folder 57).
Box 5
F 1-12: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1947.
Topics include University of Oklahoma, communism, labor, Merchant Marine in the United States, military education, political patronage in the United States, potatoes law and legislation in the United States, roads in Oklahoma, tax exemption, universities and colleges in Oklahoma, European economic conditions since1945, European politics and government since 1945, Hawaiian economic conditions from1918-1959, and Douglas Aircraft Company (folder 1). Correspondents include: Edward L. Bartlett (Folder 5), James M. Curley (Folder 12), William J. Holloway (Folder 8), Victor E. Wickersham (Folder 2), Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (Folder 5), Boy Scouts of America (Folder 4), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (Folder 4), Far Eastern Commission (Folder 8), Izaak Walton League of America, National Lawyers Guild (Folder 3), Democratic Party (Okla.) State Central Committee (Folder 2), United States Dept. of Agriculture (Folder 7), Korean Delegation (Folder 7), and Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace (Folder 3).
F 13-18: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1948 January-May.
Topics include Grant Foreman (Folder 15), Afro-Americans colonization in Liberia, guilds, employment of the handicapped, railroads, employment of refugees in Europe, school lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc., and Palestine. Correspondents include Strom Thurmond (Folder 15), Roy J. Turner (Folder 16), Henry A. Wallace (Folder 18), American Library Association, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (Folder 16), International Refugee Organization (Folder 17), Mississippi Valley Association (Folder 17), National Maritime Union of America (Folder 16), Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board (Folder 14), Oklahoma State Board of Education (Folder 18), United States President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, Ferdinand C. Smith (Folder 16), and National Water Conservation Conference (Folder 15).
F 19-25: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1948 June-December.
Topics include John H. Overton, Marshall Plan, commercial aeronautics freight, communism, petroleum industry and trade in the United States, Tung oil, Oklahoma history, Oklahoma City (Okla.), Yugoslavia, Correspondents include: Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce (Folder 25), National Economic Council (U.S.) (Folder 19), Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (Folder 21), Red River Valley Association (Folder 22), American Committee for Yugoslav Relief (Folder 19), and United World Federalists of Oklahoma (Folder 19).
F 26-38: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1949.
Topics include James F. Byrnes, William W. Keeler, Jozsef Mindszenty (Folder 28), Drew Pearson, Harry S. Truman, American Airlines, Inc. (Folder 31), Marshall Plan, Afro-Americans civil rights, airlines in the United States, airports communication systems, flood control in Florida, rental housing law and legislation, veterans' hospitals in Oklahoma, Africa colonization, Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), Hungary, United States foreign relations from 1945-1953. Correspondents include George Gallup (Folder 33), Jed J. Johnson, Douglas MacArthur (Folder 28), Franklin D. Roosevelt (Folder 31), Gerald L. K. Smith (Folder 26), Henry A. Wallace (Folder 33), Earl Welch (Folder 36), American Airlines, Inc. (Folder 31), Boy Scouts of America report (Folder 31), Cooperative League of the U.S.A. (Folder 35), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Folder 30), National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (Folder 27), Oklahoma State Legislative Council (Folder 31), United States National Capital Park and Planning Commission (Folder 32), Alfred C. Parolino - music hymn (Folder 29), Doris Pavia - lyrics and music score (Folder 35), Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (Folder 28), Keetoowah Society of the Oklahoma Cherokee (Folder 36), Pan American-Grace Airways (Folder 29), and Save a Child Foundation (Folder 31).
F 39-49: Miscellaneous Correspondence, Clippings, and Publications, 1950, 1952.
Topics include: Alger Hiss, A. S. Mike Monroney, atomic bomb in the United States, air content of concrete in the United States, hydrogen bomb, Korean War manpower, old age pensions law and legislation in the United States, Colombia, Henryetta (Okla.), and Floyd E. Maytubby. Correspondents include: Bernard M. Baruch (Folder 49), Roy J. Turner (Folder 42), Pan American World Airways, Inc. (Folder 48).
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