Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1979.085.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Carr, Gertrude Winterringer |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
03/20/1979 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. |
Scope & Content |
Audio cassette containing a recording of an oral history interview of Gertrude Winterringer Carr conducted by Jennifer Henry of the Historical Preservation Office for the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum on March 20, 1979. The audio track is 40:24 in length. Carr, along with some additions from her husband, Raymond, tells of her life in early Tulsa. Gertrude and Raymond grew up on the same block on North Denver Avenue in the neighborhood of Brady Heights. Gertrude's grandfather was George Mowbray, an English-born Methodist missionary who came to Indian Territory in 1888, starting the Tulsa Commercial Club and serving as the fifth mayor of Tulsa, Creek Nation. Carr shares many recollections about Tulsa in the early part of the 20th century such as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, swimming at Owen Park, and 4th of July at Orcutt Lake. 00:01 family history, her grandfather was George Mowbray, who came to Tulsa in 1888 century as a Methodist missionary 4:30 Carr talks about the Standpipe Hill/Heights neighborhood where she grew up, and people who lived in the neighborhood 11:00 Carr shares memories of early Tulsa, her uncle was Jeff Archer, her first dances as a youth, Vandevers Company, and water before the Spavinaw Water Project 19:00 Carr recalls information about her family: George Mowbray, her father's undertaking business he inherited from his father-in-law, her mother 23:30 Recollection of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 28:00 Raymond Carr worked as a geologist at Sinclair Oil, his travels, and a story about Harry Sinclair 31:30 Boundaries of Standpipe Hill/Heights neighborhood, going out to Orcutt Lake on the streetcar, schools, Native Americans in Tulsa 40:00 Recollections of life in early Tulsa: how they got their food, trash burners, wells, first telephones, swimming in Owen Park |
Search Terms |
Brady Heights neighborhood early Tulsa Hotel Tulsa Methodists ministers missionaries oral history interviews Orcutt Park Owen Park Robinson Hotel Sinclair Oil Corporation Standpipe Hill Swan Lake Tulsa Commercial Club Tulsa Public Schools Tulsa Race Massacre Vandever Dry Goods Company |
People |
Archer, Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Carr, Gertrude Winteringer Carr, Raymond M. Mowbray, George William Sinclair, Harry Ford |