Bob Burke Collection of Presidential and First Lady Signatures
Bob Burke is an attorney and author who lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Material types include signatures on paper, photographs, and envelopes, correspondence, land grants and other legal documents, receipts, tickets, and writing clippings. Presidential items are bound in an oversize three-ring scrapbook while First Lady items are in frames, with labels.
Biographical and Historical Note
Bob Burke was born in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, in 1948, and lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He holds bachelors from University of Oklahoma (1970) and a juris doctorate from Oklahoma City University (1976). In addition to being practicing lawyer working against workers' compensation alternatives known as "opt out" schemes, Burke has written, co-written, and edited many books on a number of topics; titles include A History of First Assembly of God - Broken Bow, Oklahoma (1985), 3,500 Years of Burkes (1988), Courage Counts: The Life of Larry Derryberry (2003), and John Steinbeck Was Wrong about Oklahoma! (2008).
Sources:
- Bob Burke Attorney, Author, Historian website. Available at http://www.bobburkelaw.net/home
- Grabell, Michael. "Companies Can't Set Own Rules For Injured Workers, Okla. Court Says," National Public Radio, 2016 September 13. Available at https://www.npr.org/2016/09/13/493805684/oklahomas-top-court-says-companies-cant-set-own-rules-for-injured-workers
Collection Overview
This collection contains sigantures and other handwriting from United States Presidents and their First Ladies, all women. Material types include signatures on paper, photographs, and envelopes, correspondence, land grants and other legal documents, receipts, tickets, and writing clippings. Presidential items are bound in an oversize three-ring scrapbook. First Lady items are in frames, with labels. Many items come with an image, art or photograph, of the person as well. All presidential items are in Box 14; John F. Kennedy's materials are at the end of the volume and folder 1 is located inside the scrapbook.
Collection Arrangement
Both Series 1. First Ladies materials and Series 2. Presidents materials are arranged in order of their tenure in the presidency. One folder contains an assortment First Lady signatures, and is listed at the end of that series.
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Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by Tanya Zanish-Belcher and Stephanie Bennett, 2021
- Conditions Governing Access
- This collection is open for use.
- Conditions Governing Use
- The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question or their descendants, unless otherwise designated. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- Bob Burke Collection of Presidential and First Lady Signatures (MS931), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.