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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0126]

Description: A daylight aerial photograph of a landscape blackened by grass fires near Oklahoma City in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "The outlook is black for tinder-dry Oklahoma as fires destroy pasture and woodlands."
Date: November 1, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1026]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Naomi Cherot, Lincoln high school English instructor in Kansas City, Mo., will be the first speaker of a series of National Brotherhood observances to start Sunday at Langston university. It was announced by John W. Coleman, director of Langston university religious activities."
Date: February 1, 1952

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0647]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A "Best Woman Driver" orchid Wednesday went to Gwen Joyce Caesar, 17, Northeast high Student of 836 NE 24, in a national Business and Professional Women's club week project."
Date: October 1, 1952
Creator: Pyer, Ronald

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0233]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fifty years ago this month, C. E. "Pop" Grady, county superintendent of schools and longtime Classen debate coach, arrived in a little Texas town to start his second teaching assignment."
Date: August 1, 1952
Creator: Tapscott, George

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0563]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy R. Coles, right, 317 NW 6, Tinker airforce base yardmaster for the last 10 years, recently was retired from a lifetime of railroading in an appropriate setting - the cab of his 80-ton Diesel engine."
Date: April 1, 1952
Creator: United States. Air Force.

[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0091]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "L. R. Julian, Lawton, president of the state firemen's association, left, and Collier can't get away from fire hoses even in a hotel so they tried a little convention horseplay with one."
Date: June 1, 1952
Creator: Peterson, Richard

[Photograph 2012.201.B0235.0147]

Description: Caption: "Guthrie is getting ready to hold its fourth annual community carnival August 29-30 in Jelsma stadium to raise money for civic and park improvement. Above, Bill Gerhards, general chairman of the group, confers with Miss Mildred Patterson, women's chairman, and Miss Ann Sue Barney, teen-age chairman."
Date: August 1, 1952
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
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