Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1984.002.193 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
06/12/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Daily World published June 12, 1921, and entitled "Rebuild Employes' [sic] Home; One Negro Home Rebuilt and Two Others Under Construction." This article reports that the Gypsy Oil Company of Tulsa, OK, is rebuilding homes for their African American employees who lost homes in the fires of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The article reports that one home for employee Aaron Ellis at 518 North Hartford Avenue is already complete. The Gypsy Oil Company formed May 23, 1907. The company built a headquarters building located at 307 N. Cincinnati Avenue in Tulsa, OK. It is not known when the building was constructed or how long the company utilized this building. Later the company located its offices on the sixth floor of the Fred S. Clinton Building (#418) located at 23 East Fourth Street, and later in the First National Bank Building located at 323-325 South Main Street. According to a U.S. Department of the Interior administrative report, the Gypsy Oil Company casing-head gasoline plant at Kiefer, OK produced 5,000 gallons of raw product in 1915. Gypsy later merged with Gulf Pipe Line Company. In 2000, the three-story brick Gypsy building on North Cincinnati Street was renovated and became the location for Gypsy Coffee House, now assigned the new address of 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. |
Search Terms |
Blacks Clinton Building Gypsy Oil Company North Hartford Avenue relief efforts Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Ellis, Aaron |