Tulsa Photo Archive

TULSA'S FIRST MUNICIPAL FLAG - In April of 1924 a $25 cash prize was offered to any person who could design the best municipal flag for the city of Tulsa. Twenty-one designs were submitted and the winner was chosen on the 15th of April, 1924. The winning design submitted by Alfred Perry known as the 'unlimited opportunity flag' was the official municipal flag of Tulsa for 17 years, being replaced in 1941. Two other designs were recognized as runners-up in the flag contest. The second-place flag was designed by H.H. Mahier and bares a striking resemblance to Tulsa's third municipal flag (1973–2018).

1. Prize Offered For City Flag (The Tulsa Tribune 04/27/1924), The Official Flag of Tulsa (Tulsa World 05/15/1924)
2. Second-place flag designed by architect H.H. Mahler (Tulsa World 05/15/1924)
3. Third-place flag designed by Harry S. Gerhart (Tulsa World 05/15/1924)
4. Official Flag for City Where Nobody Knocks But Opportunity (Tulsa Tribune 05/14/1924)
5. City Accepts Municipal Flag Before Realtors Carry It to Washington (Tulsa World 06/01/1924)
6. Tulsa’s first municipal flag digital recreation

Newspaper clippings of various ads in the Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune

1. Braum’s introduces French ice cream (Tulsa World 1979)
2. Renberg’s short coat ad (Tulsa World 1950)
3. The iMac at Sears (Tulsa World 1999)
4. Dewey’s Clothier Wool Blazers (Tulsa World 1993)
5. Claire’s Father’s Day (Tulsa World 1977)
6. Vandevers Bien Jolie (Tulsa World 1942)