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[2012.201.B0320.0233]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a suit and tie standing near a calendar pointing to a date that is circled on the calendar. The calendar is hanging on the wall. Caption: "No "unlucky" days in Dr. Willard E. Edwards' calendar."
Date: September 26, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob

[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0295]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There were traditional leis waiting for Sooner Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper when he visited Hawaii after his historic 22-orbit trip around the earth but Shawnee plans space-sized welcome when their 'Gordo' comes home."
Date: May 19, 1963

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0077]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Edwin G. Green, member of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is presented with the traditional Hawaiian lei of friendship by Thomas S. Abel, past district governor, Honolulu Rotarian."
Date: February 22, 1957

[Photograph 2012.201.B0251.0083]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "LEI-BEDECKED Ron Hartline of Oklahoma is welcomed in Honolulu by hula dancer Iwalanie Koanui. The Sooner fullback will play with Washington Coach Jim Owens' west all-stars in the Hula Bowl Sunday."
Date: 1961
Creator: United Airlines

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0781]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "GUESTS AT THE SURFRIDER HOTEL, Honolulu, are Mr. and Mrs. John L. Dryer, 1502 Drury, who sailed for Hawaii aboard the Matsonia August 16. They will return home by plane at the end of the month."
Date: August 25, 1958

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0918]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, wartime leader of the Flying Tigers, said today that American military aid to Indochina is "breeding resentment" there. Chennault, who heads the civil air transport line base on Formosa passed through Honolulu Saturday on his way to Washington for business discussions."
Date: May 30, 1952

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0086]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Reunited for the first time since his 22-orbit flight around the world, astronaut Gordon Cooper and wife Trudy embrace after Mrs. Cooper and her daughters arrived at Hickman Air Force Base, Hawaii, yesterday."
Date: May 18, 1963

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0782]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "JOHN DRYER, Rotarian from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is presented the traditional Hawaiian let of friendship by Miss Aloha Rotary and Rear Admiral S. H. Evans, Commander Fourteenth Coast Guard District, and Honolulu Rotarian."
Date: October 8, 1958

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0529]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahomans are a wandering lot, so it was no surprise to find that Dr. Estell H. Cobb, who once was a Future Farmer at Waynoka under Harold Dedrick, as acting head of the science department of the University of Hawaii."
Date: November 9, 1960

[Photograph 2012.201.B1389.0450]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Joan Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Walker, Allen, and a student at the University of Hawaii, made her debut at the annual Army Debutante Ball held at Fort Shafter Officer's Club, Hawaii."
Date: 1966
Creator: Chang, Henry C. T.

[Photograph 2012.201.B1255.0037]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Dr. Laurence H. Snyder took leave from the Univ. of Oklahoma in the spring of 1956, to be a Carnegie visiting lecturer at the Univ. of Hawaii, he had no idea that in three years he would be president of the island's only institution of higher learning."
Date: November 11, 1960

[Photograph 2012.201.B0390.0529]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's a "hula huddle" that four collegiate backfield stars are finding quite pleasant after their arrival in Honolulu where the college all-stars will meet a group of pro footballers Sunday."
Date: January 6, 1957

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0333]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "U. S. Navy crews recently recovered this ready services ammunition box one about 10 on the battleship USS Oklahoma when it was attacked by Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The box use to hold 5-inch anti-aircraft ammunition on the gun deck, was found on the bottom of the harbor."
Date: August 31, 1991
Creator: Wilson, George R.

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rescuers and crew members stand on the upturned hull of the battleship USS Oklahoma hours after it capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. Thirty two crew members were rescued from inside the ship but nearly 400 bodies were recovered when the Oklahoma was righted in 1943"
Date: December 7, 1941
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