Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1979.092.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Monnet, Annabelle |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
10/05/1979 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. |
Scope & Content |
Oral history interview of Annabelle Monnet recorded on October 5, 1979 by volunteers Laura Martins and Carol Johnson of the Junior League of Tulsa, Inc. and given to the Tulsa County Historical Society. Monnet, longtime Tulsan, tells of her life and Tulsa's architecture. She discusses Boston Avenue United Methodist Church and the controversy concerning its designer, Art Deco buildings, and Tulsa in the Great Depression. Monnet has interesting insight into the memory of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and why in the 1970s it was so difficult for many to discuss. The recording is 00:30:20 in length. 00:01 history of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church and designer controversy 009:00 Tulsa from 1925 until World War II, good storytellers from that time, Fannie Misch and history collectors 15:45 memory of the Tulsa Race Massacre in the 1970s & Great Depression 24:30 Tulsa in World War II, Douglas Bomber Plant, Art Deco buildings and their architects |
Search Terms |
Art Deco bomber plants Boston Avenue Methodist Church Douglas Aircraft Company Great Depression Junior League of Tulsa Morris house oral history interviews Philcade Building Tulsa Race Massacre war efforts World War II |
People |
Cole, Mary Caroline Crews, Ira D. Debo, Angie Evans, Rex Galbreath, Frank Goff, Bruce Alonzo Koberling, Jr., Joseph R. Misch, Fannie Brownlee Monet, Annabelle Phillips, Waite Robinson, Adah Matilda Senter, Leon Bishop |