ELMER THOMAS COLLECTION
OVERSIZE SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
Boxes 1-21

Box 1: Agriculture, 1917-1950

This box contains complete and partial agriculture industry newspapers arranged by title of the newspaper.

F1: A-G.

F2: H-K.

F3: L-N.

F4: O-P.

F5: Q-Z.

Box 2: Legislative, 1930-1950

This box includes newspapers separated from the Legislative Series.

F1: 1930-1939.

F2: 1940-1950.

Box 3: Projects, Resources, and Subject, 1924-1950

This box includes newspapers separated from the Projects, Resources and Subject Series.

F1: Projects, 1931-1938.

F2: Projects, 1940-1950.

F3: Resources, 1924-1950.

F4: Subject, 1932-1947.

Box 4: Campaign, 1920-1939

The first three folders contain newspapers about Oklahoma political campaigns as well as presidential campaigns.

F1: 1925-1927.

F2: 1930-1935.

F3: 1936-1939.

F4: Campaign Posters, Advertisements, Cartoons, and Certificates of Nomination and Election.

Box 5: Campaign, 1940-1952

This box contains complete and partial newspapers about Oklahoma political campaigns as well as presidential campaigns.

F1: 1940-1943.

F2: 1944-1949.

F3: 1950.

F4: Campaign Posters, Advertisements, Cartoons, and Certificate of Nomination.

Box 6: Depression Era, 1928-1932

This box contains complete and partial newspapers on depression era topics.

F1: Veteran's Cash Payments.

F2: Economic Policy.

F3: Gold Standard.

F4: Waterworks Projects.

F5: Europe.

F6: American Farm Bureau Federation.

F7: Tariffs.

F8: Foreign Policy.

F9: Indian Trust Funds.

F10: Miscellaneous.

F11: Anti-trust.

F12: Washington, D.C. Appropriations.

Boxes 7-11 contain whole editions or sections of newspapers dealing with the topic listed.

Box 7: Newspapers, 1926-1950

F1: Legislative, 1931-1950.

F2: Money, 1926-1934.

F3: Money, 1935-1939.

F4: Money, 1940-1949.

Box 8: Newspapers, 1925-1945

F1: Agriculture, 1927-1949.

F2: Projects, 1931-1949.

F3: World War II, 1941-1945.

F4: Democratic Party, 1925.

F5: Security Advocate, 1937.

F6: Oklahoma Politics and Government, 1930s-1940s.

Box 9: Newspapers, 1927-1949

F1: Petroleum, 1932.

F2: Foreign Policy, 1927-1949.

F3: Veterans, 1929-1949.

F4: Indian Affairs, 1931-1949.

F5: Labor, 1931-1940.

Box 10: Newspapers, 1927-1951

F1: Woodward Tornado, 1947.

F2: Elmer Thomas Biographical, 1920s-1940s.

F3: Huey Long, 1931.

F4: Ernest W. Marland, 1931

F5: James A. Reed, n.d.

F6: Winston Churchill, 1950.

F7: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1939.

F8: William H. Murray, 1931-1938.

F9: Herbert Hoover, 1932-1933.

F10: Nicholas Longworth, 1927.

F11: Vatican City Newspaper, 1949.

F12: Douglas MacArthur, 1951.

Box 11: Newspapers, 1920s-1950

F1: Washington, D.C. Newspapers, 1930s-1940s.

F2: Daily Oklahoman, 1925-1944.

F3: Tulsa Tribune, 1937-1939.

F4: Tulsa World, 1930 and 1949.

F5: Miscellaneous Oklahoma Newspapers, 1926-1951.

F6: Miscellaneous National Newspapers, 1931-1949.

Box 12: Miscellaneous, 1925-1950

Boxes 12-14 contain materials which were separated from various series in the collection.

F1: Money, 1925-1949.
Includes:

• Graphs of prices and purchasing power of the United States
• Chart entitled "Summary of President Hoover's Annual Federal Budget Message"
• Statement of public debt of the United States, 1935
• Chart on currency and prices, 1936
• "Sugar 1945" chart
• Liberation, May 7, 1939

F2: Agriculture, 1927-1942.
Includes:

• "What's Wrong with Agriculture in the United States"
• Chart, "To the Cotton Trade"
• "American Factories Leaving America for Low Wages"
• Copy of American Farm Bureau Federation's positions on current issues
• "Does the Farmer Need Legislative Relief," Price Current-Grain Reporter

F3: Labor, 1937, 1942.
Includes:

• Editorial clips from various Oklahoma and national newspapers regarding work week limits
• Union News Service of CIO

F4: Business, 1928, 1942-1950.
Includes:

• Twelve-month chart of stock exchange
• Tulsa Spirit magazine of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce
• Spartan News

F5: Military, 1941.

F6: Subject, 1927-1948.
Includes:

• Booklet, Veterans Look to the Future.
• Reprint from Mission (Tex.) Times on Shary plan
• Reprint from Afro-American re trouble at Howard University
• Phoenix Redskin, newspaper of U.S. Indian Vocational School, Phoenix, Arizona, October 13, 1934
• Clip sheet on prohibition from the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals of the Methodist-Episcopal Church of Washington
• Analysis of Unemployment Compensation Laws
• Pamphlet, Youth Wages Peace from the Student Peace Service

Box 13: Miscellaneous, 1920s-1950

F1: Projects, 1934-1947.
Includes:

• 1934 real property inventory for Oklahoma City, a Civil Works Administration project

F2: Legislative, 1926-1950.

• Brookmire Trust chart of the New York Security Markets
• Some Press Comments on the "National Emergency Act" and Other Farm Relief Measures
• Magazine article about Thomas P. Gore
• "Do You Know," a series of statements on the petroleum industry
• Poster about food and drug legislation
• National Campaign Bulletin, publication of the Veterans of the World War re: bonus issue
• Open Letter to President Roosevelt and Congress Opposing May Mobilization Bill
• Oklahoma Young Democrat, April 1938
• Reprint of partial front page of Chicago American announcing armistice of November 11, 1918
• Advertisement, "Why Risk an Atom Bomb Made of Wheat?"
• Brochure, Columbia Basin Development
• Reprints of articles from the Cleveland Plain Dealer on socialized medicine
• Poster, "Garden Valley Telephone System"
• Broadsides opposing tax on women's handbags

F3: Newspapers, 1926-1949.
Includes:

• Capitol Daily, 1937
• Oklahoma Independent, June1944
• Harlow's Weekly, 1930-1937

F4: Magazines, 1933-1947.
Includes:

• Current Controversy, October 1935
• Today, 1934 and 1936
• Southwest Jewish Chronicle, July 1938
• The World Tomorrow, February 8, 1933

F5: Miscellaneous Materials, 1920s-1940s.

• "Congress, President Truman, Attorney General McGrath"
• Clip sheet on St. Lawrence Seaway
• "Employment rises with stable or rising price level"
• Flyers, "No Negative Smokescreen Can Obscure the Positive Record," from the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee
• Political Gossip, edited by E. B. Howard, August 1931
• The Women Voter, December 1927
• Newspaper clippings with many photos of Thomas and other politicians
• Certificate from the U.S. Treasury Department acknowledging Elmer Thomas's participation in the War Savings Program in financing the cruiser U.S.S. Oklahoma City

Box 14: Veterans of Industry of America Petitions, 1940

This box includes petitions sent by Ira M. Finley, president of the Veterans of Industry of America, regarding discharge of men and women from the WPA and the NYA.

Box 15: The Democratic National Convention Guide, 1936

Box 16: Campaign Scrapbook, 1938

Box 17: Scrapbooks, 1938

• Thomas for Senator Club
• Scrapbook of correspondence from African-American women working in a WPA sewing room in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in response to an Elmer Thomas speech, possibly campaign related

Box 18: Thomas Campaign Clipping Scrapbook, 1914, 1920, 1923-1926

Box 19: Miscellaneous, 1896-1942

• Album de Oro de Puerto Rico (Golden Album of Puerto Rico; has a few clippings from 1941-1942 taped in the front of the book)
• Scrapbook of clippings, 1923
• Scrapbook of statements and speeches of Elmer Thomas; many are from the Congressional Record
• Scrapbook, 1926; much is campaign-related
• American Defenders, Incorporated-gold and silver pins
• Scrapbook of clippings, 1896-1919
• Scrapbook of clippings, 1924-1925

Box 20: Scrapbook of Clippings from Thomas's Early Career in Washington, D.C., 1927-1931

Box 21: Academic Mantle and Honorary Doctor of Civil and Canon Laws awarded to Elmer Thomas by Central Normal College of Danville, Indiana, on June 9, 1939

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