Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book:  Ex Libris Olive Mills Huckins

Year: 1923

Number: 323

Size:  7.9 × 5.7 cm

States: 1

Title on Print: Olive Mills Huckins

Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: C Armington 1923 c.l.

Planned Edition: Unknown

Number in Pencil: Not numbered

Signature in Pencil: Caroline Armington

Total Number of Impressions: Unknown

Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:

Oklahoma City

Plate sent by mail May 29, 1931

Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: None

Plate: plate was sent to Mrs. Vogel in May 1931.

Dedication:

Collections:

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

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Comments:

Mrs. Olive Mills Huckins (1876–1934) was an Oklahoma City resident and the wife of Joseph Huckins Jr., a prominent hotel magnate and civic leader who oversaw the construction of the Oklahoma State Capitol building.

• She was born Olive Mills on September 27, 1876, in Clinton, Iowa, to parents Day Mills and Ida Olive Clark Mills.

• She married Joseph Huckins Jr. on May 1, 1895.

• Olive passed away on October 26, 1934, and was interred in Oklahoma City alongside her husband, who died a year prior.

Through her husband, Olive was tied to one of the most influential families in early Oklahoma history.

• Her husband was the president of the Huckins Hotel Company, which operated a sprawling chain of hotels across the United States

• Their flagship property in downtown Oklahoma City, the Huckins Hotel (originally the Lee Huckins), was a massive cultural hub. Following Oklahoma's statehood, it served as the temporary Oklahoma State Capitol from 1910 to 1914 while the official capitol building was being planned and constructed.

Her private collection featured prominent American landscapes, southwestern art, and fine prints, including notable etchings and works by celebrated regional printmakers like George Elbert Burr.

Following her death in 1934, her children preserved her collection. In the 1950s, her daughter, Glory Huckins Morris, formally donated a significant portion of her mother's art holdings to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

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