OkieLegacy's Collection of 45rpm Swing records transferred to MP3. Remembering the 45rpm Swing Records of Louis Armstrong & Orch., Glenn Miller & Orch., Frankie Carle, Billy May, Pee Wee Hunt, Jerry Gray. Scroll down list to pick your song.

Grandpa's Legacy

Grandpa's Legacy has had a face lift and remodeling along with other pages over at The OkieLegacy. Still working on the "Mystery" folder, though. Then I will be done with the Winter cleanup.

Prairie Pioneer 78rpm MP3 Jukebox (flash player)

Prairie Pioneer 78rpm MP3 Jukebox (flash player)

I have just added 19 more songs of old, some dating back to 1917, to our "Prairie Pioneer 78rpm MP3 Jukebox.  Check out: "The Boogie Woogie" & "Opus No. 1" with Tommy Dorsey and his band; "The Rose" with Bette Midler; "Two Glasses, Joe" with Ernest Tubb; Jo Stafford singing some "South Pacific" songs; Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys singing "Buttons & Bows;" and even Elizabeth Spencer singing the National Anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner."

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Old Alva, M, Oklahoma Territory Pamphlet

We find a gem of a pamphlet put out sometime between the late 19th century and early twentieth century when Alva was a part of Oklahoma Territory. Oklahoma did not become a State until 1907.

Old Alva OK Businesses

Alva was born September 16, 1893, in "M" county, Oklahoma Territory (O.T.), one of the liveliest infants ever seen in the world. Name, Alva. Weight, the combined avoirdupois of 2,200 people, as many horses and old mules, and a few wagons and tents thrown in.

Since then the youngster has been growing steadily day by day and increasing in size and good looks until it has become the pride and delight of the whole county.

There has been no boom about Alva, and the people want none. Neither has there been any unseemly squabble with rival towns as has been the case in other parts of the (Cherokee) Strip. The settlers came for business and went about securing it in the very best manner. They established themselves in permanent buildings as soon as possible, Put up dwelling houses for their families......

NSTC Students of 1930s

NSTC Students of 1930s or Slideshow of NSTC Students of 1930's

These are 1930's photos of students of Northwestern State teachers College (NSTC), in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma. We received them from Fronia awhile back. do any of these 1930's students look familiar to you?

1946 Kelsey Airport - Waynoka, Oklahoma - YouTube

1946 Kelsey Airport - Waynoka, Oklahoma - YouTube:

A private video of Kelsey Airport (TAT airport) in Waynoka, Oklahoma - taken by Jack Kelsey in 1946 or 1947, submitted to The OkieLegacy through Jack Kelsey, Sandie Olson and the Waynoka Historical Society."

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Suffrage In America

Suffrage: "Full suffrage became a political issue for Chicago in the 1860s. On the eve of the Civil War, Illinois was one of seven Midwestern states that denied the vote to African American residents. After the Fifteenth Amendment enfranchised African Americans in Illinois in 1870, black Chicagoans moved slowly into politics and political officeholding. Chicagoan John Jones, who had led the fight to remove all state and local restrictions on African Americans, was elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1871, the first black man to hold elective office in the state, and John W. E. Thomas of Chicago was elected to the state legislature in 1876."

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The Fight for Women's Suffrage Photos — History.com Picture Galleries

Fight For Womens Suffrage

If only we could go back while our grandmother's were still alive to ask them their thoughts on the Women's Suffrage movement in America! Did they participate or following with an intense and passionate feeling for "Rights of All Women?"

We found this list of Suffrage and the Women Behind It that dates back to the Session of National Woman's Suffrage Association in Chicago, 1880. The campaign for women's suffrage began in the decades before the civil War, though. It gained momentum in the 1850's, led by abolitionist activists such as Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.

The Fight for Women's Suffrage Photos — History.com Picture Galleries

"Session of the National Woman's Suffrage Association in Chicago, 1880: The campaign for women's suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. It gained momentum in the 1850s, led by abolitionist activists such as Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul." - The Fight for Women's Suffrage Photos — History.com Picture Galleries:

WIC - Women's History in America

The Legal Status of Women

The myth of the natural inferiority of women greatly influenced the status of women in law. Under the common law of England, an unmarried woman could own property, make a contract, or sue and be sued. But a married woman, defined as being one with her husband, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband's control. During the early history of the United States, a man virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions. If a poor man chose to send his children to the poorhouse, the mother was legally defenseless to object. Some communities, however, modified the common law to allow women to act as lawyers in the courts, to sue for property, and to own property in their own names if their husbands agreed. - WIC - Women's History in America