To Miss Noami Marshall, Ponca City, OK in 1911.

I love old postcards. This one is from 1909 and was to a Miss Leata Borel of Orlando, Oklahoma from "Laffy" dated 1909.

On the Prairie Grove, Arkansas battlefield park is an interesting sight. Two trees of obvious different species, intertwining, grown as a s...

AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MINNIE CRANDALL, NEW YORK Transcribed, scanned and annotated by Marilyn A. Hudson [2010] Description : A Victorian autogra...

They sit in dark stores or lay forgotten in some corner of an attic and no one has a clue who they are. Sometimes they came with the house ...

This trunk came with a history. It had made the trip west via the Santa Fe trail, had been found out west, refurbished, and offered for sal...

PENTECOSTALISM IN OKLAHOMA: An Annotated Time Line Compiled by Marilyn A. Hudson, MLIS In progress August 27, 2010 The history of the Pentec...

In the middle of the 1960's my mother came home with a small brown autograph book acquired at a local 'second-hand' store in Wel...

Autograph books were once very popular, with young men and women memorizing clever couplets or making up their own for use in these autograp...

This lovely page is decorated with small cardboard art sticker of a floral bouquet and reads: "Minnie, Though clouds may rest on the p...

This page reads: "Minnie - Tis often hard to find a friend/On whom you always may depend/And when a friend you think you've got/a t...

Eve Scoudene of Portsville, NY wrote on April 17, 1880: "Deem every day of your life a leaf in your history." W.C. Vincent wrote ...

Effie A. Ray and her husband Jess Hudson, left the tree covered hillsides of Butler Co.,Missouri in 1917. They loaded up the covered wagon J...

Hollywood went to war once supporting the effort in WW2 with enlistments, service, volunteerism, war bonds, canteens, entertainment/training...

In an antique store, I acquired this charming photo of 'Mr. & Mrs. Schnabele of Genesco, IL'. On the reverse it reads: " Th...

In 1926 reports surfaced near Claremore, OK of seeing a strange ruby hued ghost moving through a local graveyard and no one could identify i...

OKLAHOMA PARANORMAL FIELD GUIDE: INDEX The following are some of the most common spots listed as haunted in Oklahoma: Ft. Gibson Ft. Washita...

The death of a child is always a tragedy. They are all gifts from God. When that death is the result of possibly human intervention - it is ...

In 1904 Oklahoma City, a strange site met residents and visitors one chilly spring day as they looked at South Broadway. Marching casuall...

Most religious historians chart the genesis of the pentecostal movement from a revival on the campus of a small bible college in Topeka, Kan...

In the middle of the 1800's a movement gained momentum in American culture. Emerging from the Victorian era and its emphasis on moralit...

In 1910 OKC was a booming community spreading in all directions like a fallen beer on a barroom floor, an apt description for most of the...

I was amazed to read on the webpage of OKC's Eugene Field Elementary that it was their '25 th year'! Further, it was printed...

One of the main comments made about the early OKC prostitute, Big Annie Wynn was she was , well, big. The inference is she was a large bone...

Updated 2022 The Story On July 7, 1905, the woman from Lenora, Katie Dewitt James (1874-July 8, 1905) with her 13-month-old daughter, h...