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Nichols Rare Books Collection
OU Libraries’ Nichols Rare Books digital collection includes a 1598 edition of Chaucer’s works, a 1628 edition of Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, and a second folio (1632 edition) of “Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy of the John and Mary Nichols Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
Bizzell Bible Collection
OU Libraries’ Bizzell Bible digital collection includes Bibles in English, Cherokee, Muskogee, and Urdu, and several theological and liturgical works. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy of the William Bennett Bizzell Bible Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
History of Science Collection
OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
Indians for Indians Radio Show
The Indians for Indians radio show was broadcast from OU’s WNAD radio station from 1941 through 1976. Created by Don Whistler, who was chief of the Sac and Fox Tribe, the show was an intertribal forum for Native self-expression. Recordings of approximately 200 of the broadcasts have been archived in OU’s Western History Collections. In 2018, the OU Libraries received a Council on Library and Information Resources Recordings at Risk grant to digitize these recordings and make them accessible online. Please note that a few recordings are restricted pending consultations with Native communities regarding potentially sensitive content. When citing recordings from this collection, please use the following: Indians for Indians Radio Show. Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
American School Collection
For more information, contact Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
Bass Business History Collection
OU Libraries’ Bass Business History digital collection includes a 1468 book on contract law; The Factory Operatives’ Magazine (1841-1842, Lowell, Massachusetts), an early U.S. income tax form (1865), and a large portfolio of plates on calico painting and printing in the East Indies in the 17th and 18th Centuries (1921). All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy of the Harry W. Bass Business History Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma School of the Air
The School of the Air program was broadcast over OU’s WNAD radio station starting in 1946 and continuing through the 1950s. Like other Schools of the Air throughout the nation, OU aired this program to supplement education in rural school districts. The Western History Collections has 140 recordings of the show’s history segments “Know Your Oklahoma” and “Oklahoma Portrait,” dating from 1951 through 1956. The photo shows schoolchildren listening to the program in May 1948. When citing recordings from this collection, please use the following: Oklahoma School of the Air Sound Recordings Collection. WHC M2771. Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.
Work In Progress
This collection is a holding area for newly uploaded collections that are still under construction. We are actively working on these items, including their content, metadata, urls, and other properties.