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[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0601]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0591]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0609]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Hattie Cooper's face mirrors thoughts of her astronaut son Gordon: tension, concern, relief and finally joy."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0235.0083]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0164]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BANK"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0602]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0292.0311]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Gordon cooper has flown high and over great distances since those days in the early 1940's when he sought to qualify for his first solo flight in a J-3 Piper Cub."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only minor scratches. They were assisted to the bank by several unidentified men who were fishing nearby. Car Plunges Off Bridge The car landed on the driver`s side in about five feet of water. Most of the last four or five months, the river has been bank-full and has had a swift current. But the last two weeks it had fallen four or five feet. If the river had been at the higher level, several feet of water would have covered the car. Mrs. Thompson said she was driving the car across the bridge, which is about a half mile east of Shawnee. She said the car slipped off the plank runners which are on the bridge flooring. When she tried to bring the car back up on the runners she lost control. The car plunged off one side of the bridge-there was no guard rail on this end-and "we thought we were gone," Mrs. Thompson said. Both Lucky, Unlucky At one time almost hundred spectators were gathered at the scene. The car was hauled out of the water about two hours after the accident. The girls considered themselves lucky to get out alive. But they also thought they were unlucky. The car, given to Mrs. Thompson only a month ago by her husband who is in Korea, was almost a total loss. And to top …
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0660]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A workman directs traffic around the mangled remains of a car involved in a three fatality accident Friday in Tecumseh. Two children of a Stillwater woman and an Oklahoma City man died in the crash." Story, Page 27."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0608]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "You would have to be a mother to know what a mother goes through in a situation like this," Mrs. Hattie Cooper told newsmen Thursday only minutes after the Gemini 5 space flight had been postponed."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0632]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0526]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SHAWNEE VOTERS file into Jefferson School Tuesday to cast their ballots in the primary election. Voting there was reported very heavy."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0003]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nineteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Cox of Shawnee, left, made history Tuesday when she became the first young woman to be sworn into the WAVE at the Oklahoma City station."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0235.0082]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0865]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Leonard O'Neal Armstrong, Oklahoma City lumber trailer truck driver, died enroute to a Shawnee hospital Tuesday following a wreck caused when his load of lumber shifted forward about two miles south of Asher in Pottawatomie county. Above is the scattered lumber almost submerging the truck cab."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0378]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is Shawnee parade route for Saturday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0629]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Orena Herd, left, Gordon Cooper's grandmother, and Mrs. Hattie Cooper, his mother, will watch Thursday's launch on television in Mrs. Cooper's Tecumseh home."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0606]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0119A.0372]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. J. Knox Byrum / Shawnee / Pres. of Okla. Federation of Music Clubs"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0140.0350]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tight end Cord Colwell of McLoud goes high to catch a pass during a drill this week."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0318]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Gordon Cooper, Astronaut - State Visit 1963"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0117]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0229]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A play is offered by South coach Paul Greene, Shawnee."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0348.0662]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0498]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gayla Crain isn't nearly as big as this set of weights she's working with in the Shawnee YMCA."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0155.0515]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This small central Oklahoma community has "a lot of nice people" who deserve an atmosphere of both peace and decency, says the town's police chief."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0269]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GUESS WHO. Astronaut Gordon Cooper, that's who. This portrait of a freckle-faced boy, taken in 1936, is the latest uncovered by Cooper's home town of Shawnee."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0110]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City University's grid men make their last home appearance of the season here at Taft stadium Saturday afternoon and here are a couple of the Chiefs who probably will see plenty of action."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0256.0116]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0248.0313]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0316]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Grover C. Giles Sr., 92, longtime railroad engineer who turned to writing poetry in is later years, died Wednesday at Presbyterian Hospital, Oklahoma City, after a long illness"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0075.0406]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Texas' Reese Stovall tries a drive for the basket but is blocked off by Putnam City's Mike Polansky."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0288]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Happy reunion which took place last August is expected to be repeated Saturday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0596]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Saturday was this one where Astronaut Gordon Cooper's mother and other relatives watched his successful launch in Gemini 5 with companion, Charles Conrad jr."
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Photograph taken during daylight of roof of building caved in after a fire. Caption: "The Shawnee Peanut Mill, one of the largest industries in Pottawatomie county, is shown through a bird's-eye view after flames caused damage estimated at $100,000 Friday morning."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0624]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0246]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bunny suited technician Don Cleere of Earlsboro checks lengths of hardened alloy blocks."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0167]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bank"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0599]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0610]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0600]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0614]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Hattie Cooper, standing, is the mother of Maj. Leroy Gordon Cooper."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0891]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All-State classics are many of Oklahoma's top schoolboy athletics."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0598]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mirroring relief and happiness because of the successful launch are Astronaut Cooper's mother, Mrs. Hattie Cooper, and his grandmother, Mrs. Orena Herd, one hour before the news reached spectators that the spacecraft was in trouble because of reduced oxygen pressure into the fuel cells."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0607]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "has been erected in Tecumseh behind the home of Mrs. Hattie Cooper mother of astronaut Gordon Cooper."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0526]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. The man in the center, wearing a tie, is Pottawatomie County Sheriff Herb Stroud.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0294.0023]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0525]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. The man wearing the tie on the right is Pottawatomie County Sheriff Herb Stroud.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0588]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0166]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Depositors in the Bank of Earlsboro receive payment from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp."
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