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Wilburn Cartwright Collection

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Wilburn Cartwright Collection

The Cartwright Collection consists of 65 cubic feet of documents, 11 scrapbooks, over 1,300 photographs, and multiple oversize materials including maps, campaign posters, and newspapers. The materials range in date from 1898 to 1951, but the majority of the materials are from Cartwright’s life in public service as a teacher, congressman, and state official from 1909 until the 1950s. The materials include legislation, publications, newspapers and newspaper clippings, speeches, and other items typically found in a congressional collection. The collection covers a variety of topics including World War I and World War II, the University of Oklahoma, Native American tribes, the Great Depression, campaigns during the 1930s, various public works projects, and the development of roads and highways during the middle of the 20th century. Cartwright’s willingness to engage in correspondence and his tendency to keep handwritten notes about a variety of topics and issues makes the General and Personal Files and Campaign Files of particular note. Cartwright and his family also multiple trips across the country and around the globe and the Travel Files series is filled with travel journals, postcards, and souvenirs from their travels. Among congressional collections, the Cartwright Collection Photograph series is unique because of its personal nature. While it contains some typical posed photographs, it also includes many images of the Cartwright family in various settings and captures life in Oklahoma during the first half of the 20th century in a candid and evocative way.

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Title: Wilburn Cartwright Collection

Date - creation

Expression: 1898-1951

Type: inclusive

Begin: 1898

End: 1951

Scope and Content: The Cartwright Collection consists of 65 cubic feet of documents, 11 scrapbooks, over 1,300 photographs, and multiple oversize materials including maps, campaign posters, and newspapers. The materials range in date from 1898 to 1951, but the majority of the materials are from Cartwright’s life in public service as a teacher, congressman, and state official from 1909 until the 1950s. The materials include legislation, publications, newspapers and newspaper clippings, speeches, and other items typically found in a congressional collection. The collection covers a variety of topics including World War I and World War II, the University of Oklahoma, Native American tribes, the Great Depression, campaigns during the 1930s, various public works projects, and the development of roads and highways during the middle of the 20th century. Cartwright’s willingness to engage in correspondence and his tendency to keep handwritten notes about a variety of topics and issues makes the General and Personal Files and Campaign Files of particular note. Cartwright and his family also multiple trips across the country and around the globe and the Travel Files series is filled with travel journals, postcards, and souvenirs from their travels. Among congressional collections, the Cartwright Collection Photograph series is unique because of its personal nature. While it contains some typical posed photographs, it also includes many images of the Cartwright family in various settings and captures life in Oklahoma during the first half of the 20th century in a candid and evocative way.

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Portion: whole

Number: 107.13

Type: Linear Feet

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Photographs, 1913-1950

This series contains 1361 black-and-white prints and negatives of Wilburn Cartwright (the representative of Oklahoma's Third District from 1927-1943) as a soldier, congressman, and Oklahoma secretary of state. There are also pictures of him with his family, Congressman Jed Johnson, other members of Congress the Oklahoma congressional delegation, and constituents. Folders typically contain several envelopes of photographs of envelopes of photographs. envelopes of photographs may contain multiple copies of a particular image. Patrons may request an item-level inventory of this series.

1913-1950

Oversize, 1914-1950

This series includes eleven scrapbooks as well as thirteen boxes of newspapers, diplomas, election certificates, and memorabilia. Newspapers are arranged by topic and by individual.

1914-1950

Maps, 1915-1949

This series has fifty-four maps and includes several highway maps.

1915-1949

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