Box PJ 1
Container
Contains 92 Collections and/or Records:
Air Force Academy-Oklahoma City, 1949
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_21_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: questioning the consideration of Randolph Field as a site for the air Force Academy.
Air Force Academy-Tulsa, 1950
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_22_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: consideration of Tulsa as a site for the Air Force Academy.
Air Force Research Lab, 1949
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_23_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: construction of an Air Force Research Lab at the University of Oklahoma.
Air Mail Route-Oklahoma City, 1929
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_24_0000
Scope and Contents
Brief: supplementing the Survey for the establishment of an Air Mail Route via St. Louis, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City.
Airport, undated, 1942
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_25_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: improvement of the Gage airport instead of the building of an airfield at Woodward; undated document containing dollar amounts given to Oklahoma airports by sponsors and the Federal Government.
Airports, 1944
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 26
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_26_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: building of an airfield at Snyder, Oklahoma.
Airports, Legislation, 1945
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 27
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_27_0000
Scope and Contents
Most of the material in the Thomas Collection was created during his senatorial years. Because Thomas served over half of his years in the Senate during the Great Depression and World War II, the collection is an excellent source on the history of the nation and Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s. The files reflect the national debate over these two major crises and include opinions of colleagues, figures in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and other prominent personalities. Because...
Airports, 1945-1946
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 28
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_28_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: Senate bill S. 2 and its provisions for federal aid toward public airports; the naming of certain fields as surplus to be sold back to the original owners. Correspondents include Fiorello H. La Guardia.
Alaska, 1936
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_29_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: Matanuska Valley Colony, both views for and against; an island in Alaska said to be crawling with nearly extinct sea otters. Correspondents include Frank Hall Fraysur of Time magazine requesting some pictures of the sea otters for a new picture magazine called LIFE.
Alaska, 1937
File — Box: PJ 1, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_8_1_30_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: sea otters and their protection; the Matanuska Valley Colony both for and against.