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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0278]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scanning the vast area which soon will be inundates by completion of the Atoka dam is Miss Gloria Percell, Bennington, southeastern Oklahoma Dairy princess for 1959."
Date: June 5, 1959
Creator: Gumm, John

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0279]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was a twofold dedication ceremony at the Atoka damsite three miles north of Atoka Saturday with city officials and state historical society joining in the festivities"
Date: June 5, 1959
Creator: Gumm, John

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0142]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tank car filled with potentially deadly chlorine gas and five other cars of an MKT freight derailed and burst into flames this morning on a bridge across a creek north of Atoka."
Date: June 30, 1972

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0173]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The grief-stricken Oklahoma family Wednesday prepared to bury their eldest son, Rev, Tommie Bob Cooke, slain by ex-convict near Taft last Sunday afternoon."
Date: June 19, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George

[Photograph 2012.201.B1122.0179]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DePorter Ray, Atoka mayor and operator of a freelance concession at Lake Atoka, Tuesday challenged authority of Oklahoma City to collect fees for fishing and boating at the lake."
Date: June 25, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
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