In 2004 the Rotary Club of Tulsa purchased the Beryl Ford Collection. Beryl Ford had been collecting Tulsa history for most of his life before his death in 2009 at the age of 83. Ford’s collection is  largely comprised of photographs, photographic negatives and some artifacts.

As its official Oklahoma centennial project, Rotary teamed with the Tulsa City-County Library and the Tulsa Historical Society to digitize, preserve and house the collection. The project was completed due to the generosity of the Tulsa World, the Lorton Family, Chester Cadieux, the Rotary Club of Tulsa and many other community-minded corporations, institutions and individuals.

After two years of work by the Tulsa City-County Library in digitizing and cataloging the collection, it was moved to its permanent home at the Tulsa Historical Society in 2007.

Click [here] to view approximately 24,000 images from the Beryl Ford Collection.

The Tulsa Historical Society can make prints of any of the images in the Beryl Ford Collection.

NOTE: Due to building renovations, access to the museum collections will be limited from December 1, 2011 – February 28, 2012. Requests for photographic reproductions may be submitted during this time but a response may not be possible until the renovation is complete.