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Telegram

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

George Custer Telegram, March 4, 1876

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 47.Unknown]
Identifier: 3826.764
Description

This is a telegram written by George A. Custer to Lawrence Bonnett; it is written on a Western Union form. It says, "We start to meet Sitting Bull tomorrow will reach Lincoln Monday."

Dates: March 4, 1876

Manuscript Collection: George A. Custer

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.54
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These letters and newspaper clippings deal mostly with the famous "Battle of the Little Big Horn", and one letter concerns a horse named "Don Juan." There are photographs of Custer and his horse, "Comanche." George A. Custer, (1839-1876) an American army officer, was born at New Rumley, Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1861 and served through the Civil War. He engaged in western patrol duty and in Indian fighting,...
Dates: 1865-1876

Manuscript Collection: Phillip Cole Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1940.47
Collection Overview (Biographical material and acquisitions list added in 1967). Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Journal of the 7th Cavalry's Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, correspondence with Theodore W. Goldin, E. A. Brininstool, and others comprise this collection. (See also Benteen-Goldin letters under "Benteen.") Dr. Cole (c.1890-1940), a retired physician, and former president of A. Schrader and Sons Manufacturing Company, lived in Tarrytown, New York, on the Cole...
Dates: 1876-1937

Manuscript Collection: William A. Philips

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.173
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: William Addison Phillips (1824-1893), born at Paisley, Scotland, was a soldier, congressman from Kansas, author, and, with four associates, founder of the town of Salina, Kansas. He was a colonel in the Union Army and commander of the Union Indian Brigade from January, 1863, until the end of the War. Among the papers is a typed document which has his signature as special agent and counsel for the Cherokees. Senate Bill No. 25...
Dates: 1865-1893

Telegram fom H.E. Maule to Nancy C. Russell, July 2, 1927

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.3420.1-4
Description

From H.E. Maule, July 2, 1927, same information in letter TU2009.39.3419.

Dates: July 2, 1927

Telegram form H. E. McKee to Col. P. P. Pitchlynn , November 12, 1874

 Item — Folder 2853: [Barcode: 177.2853]
Identifier: 4026.7204
Description

4026.7204 is the telegram and 4026.7204.1 is the envelope addressed to P. P. Pitchlynn. Folder 2853

Dates: November 12, 1874

Telegram from A. C. Bruner to Wm Drew concerning cattle shipment, June 17, 1885

 Item — Folder 526: [Barcode: 61.526]
Identifier: 4026.3009
Description

Telegram was a Night Message from the Western Union Telegraph Company. A. C. Bruner sent the telegram from Temple Junction, Texas to William Drew in Muskogee, Indian Territory. The message read, "will ship cattle tomorrow have Robbinson [sic] ready with outfit by all means will be there in person". Folder 526

Dates: June 17, 1885

Telegram from Amon G. Carter to H.E. Britzman, December 23, 1951

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.2666
Description

From Amon G. Carter to H.E. Britzman, offers to buy "Tight Dally and Loose Latigo" on approval. Handwritten note on obverse from Britzman, wire received.

Dates: December 23, 1951