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1983.243. Joe L. Todd Collection

January 25, 2019

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Collection Summary

Title
Joe L. Todd Collection
Repository Number
1983.243
Repository
Oklahoma Historical Society, Research Archives

Administrative Information

Originals/Duplicates

Mix of some originals and some copies.

Use/Re-use Restrictions

Courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society

Preferred Citation

Joe L. Todd Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division

Processing Information

Released on 2007-01-09.

format M1983.243. Manuscripts, 1967-2003

Quantity
15 boxes, 1 oversize

Administrative Information

Description of Material

This series contains personal papers from Joe L. Todd's time as Oral Historian at the Oklahoma Historical Society, as well as diaries, and correspondence from his service in the US Army during the Vietnam and first Gulf War. Mr. Todd collected a series of magazines titled Souvien-Toi or Remember and also collected the names of all veterans from Oklahoma who served in the first World War. There are also a set of transcripts from oral histories that were done while Mr. Todd worked at OHS. This set of materials is in his collection. The series contains material from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.

Processing Information

Released on 2007-01-09.

box 1. Professional Papers and Correspondence, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1036.06

folder 1. American Indian Pipes in the Collection of the Oklahoma Historical Society by Joe Todd

folder 2. Correspondence, Professional

folder 3. George Bush Presidential Library Material

folder 4. Internation Oral Historians Association, 1989 Meeting in Oklahoma City

folder 5. Oral History Association

folder 6. Oral History Documents

folder 7. Oral History Interview with Miss Kitty Strudevant, 1982

folder 8. Oral History with Mr. Ralph Shebester, 1986

folder 9. Oral History with Mr. Aaron Slutzky, 1983

folder 10. Oral History Interviews, Aldridge-Ciccone

folder 11. Oral History Interviews, Flatt-Pratt

folder 12. Oral History Interviews, Rommell-Suess

folder 13. Stationary

folder 14. Weekly Reports, 1983-1986

box 2. Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1036.07

folder 1. Bio and Resumes

folder 2. Certificates and Recognition Letters

folder 3. Correspondence, Personal

folder 4. Correspondence, Senators

folder 5. Department of the Army Correspondence

folder 6. Department of the Army Medal of Achievement, 1990

folder 7. Diary of Joe Todd

folder 8. Maps

folder 9. Personal Papers

folder 10. Fred and Mabel Todd Scholarship

folder 11. USS Oklahoma Association

folder 12. USS Oklahoma

folder 13. Publication - Names of the sailors and Marines that Died on the USS Oklahoma, December 7th, 1941, compiled by Paul Goodyear, Survivor of the USS Oklahoma

folder 14. Communications from Joe Todd during Operation Desert Storm, Kuwait, 24 February 1991

box 3. Personal Materials, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.01

folder 83.243. Business Cards, Membership cards, stamps and foreign currency

folder 83.243. Misc. Booklets

folder 83.243. The Hostess' Friend Cookbook

folder 83.243. The Indian Historian and the American Indian Institute

folder 83.243. Native American Newsletters

folder 83.243. Oklahoma historical information

folder 83.243. Oklahoma Indian Newsletter and the Indian Sentinel

folder 83.243. Postcards

folder 83.243. Receipts and bank records

folder 83.243. School papers

box 4. Booklets, Pamphlets and Newsletters, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.02

folder 83.243. Baptist Messenger

folder 83.243. California State University "From Dust THou Art," Manuscripts

folder 83.243. Chronicles of Oklahoma and Mistletoe Leaves

folder 83.243. Ebay transactions

folder 83.243. The GoingSnake Messenger and Texas Oral History Association

folder 83.243. Newsletter- 486th Civil Affairs Co.

folder 83.243. Official Programme Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, n.d.

folder 83.243. Oklahoma Military Oral History Book

folder 83.243. Philnews, Phillips Petroleum Co. Newsletter

folder 83.243. Misc. Booklets and programs

folder 83.243. Newspaper Clippings

box 5. Foreign Correspondence and foreign language books, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.03

folder 83.243. Correspondence

folder 83.243. Foreign Correspondence

folder 83.243. Native American Material, Misc. Material

folder 83.243. Newspaper Clippings

folder 83.243. Nursing Home Interviews

folder 83.243. School Papers

folder 83.243. Two books, Un Jeu de Lotto du XVIIIe Siecle and Folter Instrumente im Mittelalter

folder 83.243. USS Oklahoma Publications

box 6. Souviens-Toi Periodique, 1983-1996, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.04

folder 1. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1983-1987

folder 2. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1988-1989

folder 3. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1990-1991

folder 4. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1993-1994

folder 5. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1995-1996

box 7. Souviens-Toi Periodique, 1996-2000, and other publications, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.05

folder 1. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1996-1997

folder 2. Souveins-Toi Periodique (Remember) Association de Jeunes Pour le Souvenir des Deux Guerres (Youth Association for the Memory of Two Wars), 1998-2000

folder 3. Uptight Magazine, 1968, Soldiers Magazine, 1984, National Geographic, 1987 and 1990, and de Villars la Ville, 1987

folder 4. Army History, the Professional Bulletin of Army History, 1998, 2000 and 2002

folder 5. Misc. booklets

folder 6. History and Military booklets

folder 7. Oklahoma booklets

box 8. World War One Veterans from Oklahoma in alphabetical listing, unfoldered

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.06

box 9. World War One Veterans from Oklahoma in alphabetical listing, unfoldered

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1037.07

oversize box 10. Oversize box of scrapbooks and maps, 1967-2003

Other/Variant Title
M83.243 location 3274

scrapbook 1. Garden Scrapbook containing drawings of wildflowers from Oklahoma, Mrs. Barton owned the scrapbook.

map 2. Map of Elsenborn, Belgium, 1977

item 3. Certificate for Joe L. Todd from the U.S. Army Transportation School, 1967

item 4. Sheet music entitled "We Are Here," by Em. Siroux, 1918 during World War 1, in a folder

item 5. De Gulden Beer Restaurant poster

item 6. Calendar dated 1990, from Brugge, Belgium

item 7. Purchase letter and hereditary contract, in Dutch and German in folder

scrapbook 8. Stylish Clothes for Men, contains drawings and reports from school for the Gardner children, Juanita and Isaac, n.d.

clipping 9. Newspaper clippings and articles

box 11. Essays, Cachets

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1748.08

Administrative Information

Container List

Folder 1. "Our Magnificent Baltic Cruise or Vodka, Wine and How got Lost in the Hermitage" Joe L. Todd.

Folder 2. "Joe's Trip to Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde" Joe L. Todd, 1998.

Folder 3. "My Trip to Peru and the Land of the Inca" Joe L. Todd, 1997.

Folder 4. "World War II Video Interview Project" Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, KS, 2015.

Folder 5. 4 cachets, U.S.S. Oklahoma, 1936, U.S. Navy, 1936, Dirigible, 1934, Evacuation Day, 1933.

Folder 6. Program - Will Rogers Birthday Celebration, November 4, 1946.

Folder 7. Flash Drive - Excel Spreadsheets of Cemetery Listing.

Processing Information

Released on 2015-05-22.

box 12. Draft Copies of Todd book on Louis Kerbel

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1113.07

Administrative Information

Container List

Folder 1. Correspondence and Permission to Publish, Louis Kerbel, 1986-1987.

Folder 2. Article, "Immigrant Lived a Chapter in Russian History: Historian Collects Words From Past" May 4, 1986.

Folder 3. Business Correspondence, Joe L. Todd to Mary Lee Boyle, January 26, 1988, re: Writing of Book about Louis Kerbel, Synopsis of book.

Folder 4. Kerbel - Chapter 1, "The Shoemaker".

Folder 5. Chapter 2, Move to Odessa.

Folder 6. Chapter 6.

Folder 7. Chapter 7.

Folder 8. Chapter 8.

Folder 9. Chapter 9.

Folder 10. Chapter 10.

Folder 11. Chapter 11.

Folder 12. Chapter 13.

Folder 13. Draft Pages.

Folder 14. Transcripts, Interviews, Louis Kerbel.

Folder 15. Interviews, Aaron Slutsky, Lovenna Barnes, Clara Staggs, Mae Poteet, Mrs. John teer.

Folder 16. Copies of photographs, research notes.

Processing Information

Released on 2017-12-01.

box 13. Transcripts, Veterans Video Interview Project

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1846.06

Administrative Information

Description of Material

Contains transcripts of video interviews conducted by Joe L. Todd with veterans from all branches of the U. S. military.

Container List

Phillip Austin, Claremore, OK, 26 June 2015, World War II.

Montie Barham, Barnsdall, OK 19 February 2018, Vietnam.

Jody Bateman, Silver City, NM, 18 July 2000, Student Peace Union, Students for a Democratic Society.

Aubrey Brock, Joplin, MO, 27 March 2015, Korea.

Dustin Brant, Bartlesville, OK, 13 April 2014, September 11th, Ground Zero in New York City, Afghanistan.

Oscar Boyd, Bartlesville, OK, 18 June 2014, Korea.

William Boatright, Bartlesville, OK, 23 October 2013, Vietnam.

Randy Birmingham, Bartlesville, OK, 23 July 2014, Vietnam.

Richard Cain, Bartlesville, OK, 26 February 2018, Vietnam.

Doyle Carr, Dewey, OK, 6 May 2014, Vietnam.

Leroy Carter, Randy Birmingham, Bartlesville, OK, 23 July 2014, Vietnam, 11 September 2017, Japan.

Bill Caswell, Bartlesville, OK, 7 June 2017, Vietnam.

Kenneth Conrad, Mannford, OK 13 December 2012, Vietnam.

Charles Crabtree, Bartlesville, OK, 12 December 2017, Vietnam.

Rocky Crawford, Bartlesville, OK, 25 August 2016, Vietnam.

Cleve Crouch, Oglesby, OK, 14 October 2013, Korea.

Louis Davis, Bartlesville, OK, 20 June 2016, Vietnam.

Matthew Derryberry, Bartlesville, OK, 22 August 2008, Iraq.

Nuncio Falco, Bartlesville, OK, 30 September 2015, Korea.

Edward Eugene Farmer, Dewey, OK, 19 December 2015, Sitka, Alaska, and Japan.

Stephen Forsythe, Bartlesville, OK, 13 November 2013, Vietnam.

William Fossey, Anadarko, OK, 28 June 1988, World War II.

Processing Information

Released on 2017-12-01.

box 14. Transcripts, Veterans Video Interview Project

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1846.07

Administrative Information

Description of Material

Contains transcripts of video interviews conducted by Joe L. Todd with veterans from all branches of the U. S. military.

Container List

John Gaines, Bartlesville, OK, 18 March 2015, Vietnam.

Martin Garber, Bartlesville, OK, 23 may 2018, Army, stationed at The Presidio.

Denzil D. Garrison, Bartlesville, OK, 21 May 2014, World War II, Army of Occupation in Germany.

Michael Gilliland, Bartlesville, OK, 6 February 2017, Desert Shield.

Charles Golden, Bartlesville, OK, 24 September 2018, Vietnam.

Miachel Green, Dewey, OK, 21 November 2018, Vietnam.

Bennett Guthrie, Park Hill, OK, 13 September 2017, Vietnam.

Dean Haberly, Dewey, OK, 30 January 2015, Vietnam.

Robert Hamilton, Bartlesville, OK, 24 July 2018, Korea.

Ray Joseph Harris, Bartlesville, OK, 1 June 2017, Vietnam.

Richard Henderson, Owasso, OK, 13 September 2018, Vietnam.

Charley Hicks, Claremore, OK, 1 October 2015, Korea.

Vernon Hicks, Bartlesville, OK, 12 September 2008, Vietnam.

Dennis Baline Hoch, Broken Arrow, OK, 31 August 2017, Vietnam.

Wayne Holden, Bartlesville, OK, 18 February 2016, Korea.

Joel Holmstrom, Bartlesville, OK, 13 December 2016, Germany, Dhahran, Kuwait.

Mitch Huth, Bartlesville, OK, 8 August 2018, Germany, Fort Stewart, Arabia.

Colin Jackson, Claremore, OK, 18 September 2015, China, Korea.

Ken Jaggers, Bartlesville, OK, 25 February 2018, Army.

Jon Johnson, Broken Arrow, OK, 14 September 2017, Vietnam.

Lonnie Johnson, El Reno, OK, 15 November 2017, San Diego.

Quintis C. Johnson, Claremore, OK, 21 August 2015, Vietnam.

Patty Croft Kelly, Oklahoma City, OK, 30 November 1984, World War II, Santo Tomas University Internment Camp.

Jerry A. Lee, Claremore, OK, 11 September 2015, Vietnam.

Vernon Ray "Buck" Lewis, Bartlesville, OK, 23 September 2009, Korea, Pusan Perimeter.

Max Lutke, Bartlesville, OK, 23 February 2017, El Paso, TX, Philadelphia, PA.

Joe Mabry, Bartlesville, OK, 17 June 2014, Goose Bay, Labrador.

Ken Maddox, Ochelata, OK, 12 December 2017, Korea.

George McAfee, Bartlesville, OK, 9 January 2018, Vietnam.

Paul Markwood, Claremore, OK, 4 September 2015, Vietnam.

John Marston, Woodward, OK, 24 November 1987, World War II.

John Martin, Tulsa, OK, 26 January 2018, Guam, Bermuda.

Charles Morgan, Bartlesville, OK, , 13 February 2009, French Morocco Air Base.

Fred Morris, Bartlesville, OK, 22 November 2016, Korea.

Herb Morris, Bartlesville, OK, 28 September 2016, World War II.

Wilhelm Louis Murg, Pawhuska, OK, 4 December 2014, World War II, Eniwetok, Test of the Hydrogen Bomb.

Processing Information

Released on 2018-09-18.

box 15. Transcripts, Veterans Video Interview Project

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 1846.08

Administrative Information

Description of Material

Contains transcripts of video interviews conducted by Joe L. Todd with veterans from all branches of the U. S. military.

Container List

Carl Nelson, Bartlesville, OK, 4 March 2016, Korea.

Norman Nickles, Bartlesville, OK, 14 December 2017, Korea.

Cletus Nordin, Tulsa, OK, 19 September 2017, Korea.

Russell Odell, Ramona, OK, 11 August 2018, Vietnam.

Willard Parish, Broken Arrow, OK, 26 September 2017, Vietnam.

Walter Pettiford, Bartlesville, OK, 9 June 2018, Vietnam.

Ron Price, Barnsdall, OK, 20 May 2014, Vietnam.

Riley, Quillin, Claremore, OK, 4 September 2015, San Antonio, TX.

Carroll Ritchie, Bartlesville, OK, 12 November 2015, World War II.

Matt Roark, Bartlesville, OK, 25 May 2018, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ.

Jerry Ropp, Bartlesville, OK, 9 August 2018, Vietnam.

Wayne Rountree, Bartlesville, OK, 25 September 2018, Korea.

J. A. Rufner, Sapulpa, OK, 14 August 2018.

Charles Selby, Oklahoma City, 12 May 2009, Korea.

Ralph Shrivalle, Dewey, OK, 28 September 2013, Submarine School.

David Sisk, Bartlesville, OK, 8 September 2008, Vietnam.

Richard Smiddy, Prior, OK, 7 November 2017, Served in Kentucky.

Elizabeth Smith, Tulsa, OK, 15 January 1988, World War II, WASP.

Barry Standeford, Bartlesville, OK, 24 November 2018, Vietnam.

Roger Standridge, Ochelata, OK, 25 October 2018, Vietnam.

Herb Stevens, Bartlesville, OK, 17 December 2013, Japan, China, Korea.

Tim Stringer, Dewey, OK, 14 December 2016.

James P. Thomason, Bartlesville, OK, 9 April 2014, Korea.

June Lawrence Waddell, Bartlesville, OK, 27 July 2014, Circle Mountain.

James Martin Walker, Bartlesville, OK, 28 June 2018, Germany, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Desert Storm.

Henry Watters, Bartlesville, OK 27 June 2018, Vietnam.

Roger Weil, Copan, OK, 17 December 2018, Vietnam.

Bo Winters, Bartlesville, OK, 30 May 2018, Japan, Korea.

Processing Information

Released on 2018-09-18.

oversize folder 16. Oversize Family Tree, Homestead Certificate, Map

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 3281

item 1. Family Tree - Todd Family

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 3281

item 2. Map of Indian Territory, copy

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 3281

item 3. Homestead Certificate No. 903, Application 894, Thomas Reynolds, Oklahoma Territory, President Grover Cleveland, 2 March 1895

Other/Variant Title
M1983.243 location 3281

Administrative Information

Description of Material

Northwest Quarter of Section Thirty-three in Township eleven North, of Range three West of Indian Meridian in Oklahoma Territory containing one hundred and sixty acres

Processing Information

Released on 2018-11-09.

format P1982.243. Photographs

box 1. Box 1

photograph color 17869. Quapaw Indians - Persons - Robert Whitebird, last full blood Quapaw male

photograph black and white 18665.A. Persons - Leroy and Elizabeth Todd. Photo by H. L. Stewart, Rogers, Arkansas, c. 1896

photograph black and white 18665.B. Persons - Thomas Albert Todd, 1880s

photograph black and white 18665.C. Persons - Children of Thomas Albert Todd, c. 1905

photograph black and white 21084.FG.1. Grandpa Reed died in 1932 - James Oliver and Mable Reed's dad - Mildred Todd's grandpa, 1932

Other/Variant Title
Fused Glass

photograph black and white 21084.IO.PH.PR.1.1. INDUSTRIES & OCCUPATIONS - PHOTOGRAPHERS - PRETTYMAN - L. TO R.: 1. REPUBLIC, 2. MRS. REPUBLIC. PHOTO BY W.S. PRETTYMAN, BLACKWELL, OT.

photograph black and white 21084.TO.O030.55.1.13. TOWNS - OKLAHOMA CITY - EVENTS - NEWS MEDIA ON N. HARVEY AVE. AT NW 7TH ST. PHOTO BY JOE TODD., April 20, 1995

photograph black and white 21084.TO.O030.55.1.10. TOWNS - OKLAHOMA CITY - EVENTS - NEWS MEDIA ENCAMPMENT ON N. HARVEY AVE. AT NW 7TH ST. PHOTO BY JOE TODD., April 20, 1995

photograph color 21084.TO.O030.55.2.18. TOWNS - OKLAHOMA CITY - EVENTS - "FEED THE CHILDREN" RELIEF AGENCY SITE AT THE MURRAH BUILDING. PHOTO BY JOE TODD., April 20, 1995

photograph black and white 21082.PR1. ORGANIZATIONS - MILITARY: Photographers #88, Photo by Hogue

Index Terms

Media
photographs