Captured Moments on Tulsa's Route 66
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Captured Moments on Tulsa's Route 66: Images from the Beryl Ford Collection and the camera of Howard Hopkins.
Join us for a pictorial history of Route 66 in Tulsa, presented by Steve Clem and Becky Hatchett, authors of the book Route 66 in Tulsa. Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the featured archival collections:
Beryl Ford Collection
Beryl Dean Ford (1926-2009) was a life-long Tulsan and a devoted collector of items relating to Tulsa’s history. He amassed a large collection over many decades, which included objects, images, and documents. Some of these items he obtained from other collectors, but a great deal of the collection he salvaged from dumpsters and abandoned properties. He stated, “Most people call me a pack rat. But I don’t mind. I’m saving history. I’m doing what most people fail to do, and I love doing it.” Ford decided to sell his collection in his later years. In August 2004, the Rotary Club of Tulsa raised more than $200,000 to purchase the Beryl Ford Collection from Beryl and Lydia Ford as part of the club’s Oklahoma Centennial Project. The purchase resulted through the generosity of donors including the Rotary Club of Tulsa, World Publishing Company/Lorton Family, and Chester Cadieux. Once purchased, the Rotary Club of Tulsa donated a portion of the collection to the Museum of Tulsa History and a portion to the Tulsa City-County Library as a means of making the collection available to the public. Today, the archives at the Museum of Tulsa History preserves and shares 22,876 photographic images, documents, and objects collected by Beryl Ford.
Howard Hopkins Collection
Howard Grant “Hoppy” Hopkins (1917-2010) was a prolific photographer in Tulsa from 1936 to until his retirement in 1989. After graduating Central High School in 1936, he began his life-long passion with photography. He first worked for The Howards, a Tulsa photography studio owned by George O. Howard. In 1941, he moved to the Miller Studio. He also worked as a staff photographer for the Tulsa World newspaper. After serving as a combat photographer in World War II in the U.S. Marine Corps, Hopkins returned to Tulsa and began his own photography studio, Hopkins Photography Company, located at 219 South Boulder Avenue. The studio specialized in industrial and commercial photography. His business became one of the state’s leading commercial photography firms. In 1973, Hopkins moved his studio to 1202 South Boulder Avenue. It remained at that location until Hopkins retired in 1989. At that time, Hopkins had worked in photography for fifty-three years. The original negatives and prints produced by Hopkins are now a part of collections at the Museum of Tulsa History. Currently, 11,872 images have been cataloged by staff and volunteers. The entire collection is estimated to contain some 250,000 images.
Join us for a pictorial history of Route 66 in Tulsa, presented by Steve Clem and Becky Hatchett, authors of the book Route 66 in Tulsa. Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the featured archival collections:
Beryl Ford Collection
Beryl Dean Ford (1926-2009) was a life-long Tulsan and a devoted collector of items relating to Tulsa’s history. He amassed a large collection over many decades, which included objects, images, and documents. Some of these items he obtained from other collectors, but a great deal of the collection he salvaged from dumpsters and abandoned properties. He stated, “Most people call me a pack rat. But I don’t mind. I’m saving history. I’m doing what most people fail to do, and I love doing it.” Ford decided to sell his collection in his later years. In August 2004, the Rotary Club of Tulsa raised more than $200,000 to purchase the Beryl Ford Collection from Beryl and Lydia Ford as part of the club’s Oklahoma Centennial Project. The purchase resulted through the generosity of donors including the Rotary Club of Tulsa, World Publishing Company/Lorton Family, and Chester Cadieux. Once purchased, the Rotary Club of Tulsa donated a portion of the collection to the Museum of Tulsa History and a portion to the Tulsa City-County Library as a means of making the collection available to the public. Today, the archives at the Museum of Tulsa History preserves and shares 22,876 photographic images, documents, and objects collected by Beryl Ford.
Howard Hopkins Collection
Howard Grant “Hoppy” Hopkins (1917-2010) was a prolific photographer in Tulsa from 1936 to until his retirement in 1989. After graduating Central High School in 1936, he began his life-long passion with photography. He first worked for The Howards, a Tulsa photography studio owned by George O. Howard. In 1941, he moved to the Miller Studio. He also worked as a staff photographer for the Tulsa World newspaper. After serving as a combat photographer in World War II in the U.S. Marine Corps, Hopkins returned to Tulsa and began his own photography studio, Hopkins Photography Company, located at 219 South Boulder Avenue. The studio specialized in industrial and commercial photography. His business became one of the state’s leading commercial photography firms. In 1973, Hopkins moved his studio to 1202 South Boulder Avenue. It remained at that location until Hopkins retired in 1989. At that time, Hopkins had worked in photography for fifty-three years. The original negatives and prints produced by Hopkins are now a part of collections at the Museum of Tulsa History. Currently, 11,872 images have been cataloged by staff and volunteers. The entire collection is estimated to contain some 250,000 images.
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