Photographic print of A.J. Smitherman, a book and the Tulsa Greenwood District

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Black-and-white photographs, and a photomechanical copy of a photograph, adhered to a sheet of paper. The paper has the letterhead of The Petroleum Reporter. The paper has been folded in half to form four (4) sections. Each photograph has been affixed to one of the four sections. The top half of the recto side is printed with the letterhead, and no photographs are adhered to this section. The bottom half of the recto side has a photomechanical copy of a street view of the Greenwood District. On verso, there is a photograph of a man with glasses wearing a suit and bowtie, A.J. Smitherman, the Editor and Publisher of the Daily Tulsa Star at the time of the 1921Tulsa Race Massacre. Next to the Smitherman photograph is handwritten "Smitherman". On the other half of the same quadrant, the word "Franklin" is handwritten, next to an empty space without a photograph.

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