In 2004, The Rotary Club of Tulsa, through its not-for-profit subsidiary Tulsa Archives, Inc., purchased from Beryl and Lydia Ford the entire Beryl Ford Collection, the largest and most significant collection of photographs and artifacts relevant to the history of the City of Tulsa and surrounding area. For more information, http://www.berylfordcollection.com/.
As its official Oklahoma Centennial Project, Rotary teamed with the Tulsa City-County Library and the Tulsa Historical Society to quickly provide the public access to this excellent photographic collection of Tulsa history. Tulsa Archives, Inc. conducted fundraising efforts to support a two-year project via the Tulsa City-County Library. With the successful completion of the capital campaign, TCCL embarked upon the project to inventory, catalog, and digitize the collection. As of December, 2007, TCCL staff successfully completed the Centennial Project. Today, the public can view the digitized photographs and descriptions via the Library’s website and online catalog. Prints from the original photographs are available at the Tulsa Historical Society.