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[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0269]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "I watched my wheat roll by my farm in trucks . . . then in railroad cars . . . and now in train loads." Those are the words of Joseph Danne, 63-year-old El Reno farmer-scientist, who has given the wheat belt new varieties of grain which have been bred to combat rust, smut, wet weather, dry weather and who is now working on a wheat variety to withstand the assault of greenbugs."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0227]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Death Watch Sgt. Earl McCullum lies unconscious on the pavement beside the overturned automobile in which he was riding after it was rammed from behind in the 3100 block NE 23 shortly after 10 p. m. Thursday. McCullum, 30, stationed at Tinker air force base, died a few minutes later on the way to Mercy hospital. His companions in the car, Sgt, Eugene Walusiak, 23, center(not in uniform), and T/Sgt. Sidney E. Brown, 25, rig… more
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Rizik, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0293]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "H. B. Fisher, of Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, OK, is chairman of the API Mid Continent District Committee on Drilling Fluids. The Mid Continent District of the American Petroleum Institute's Division of Production will hold its spring meeting in the Herring Hotel, Amarillo, TX. March 21 to 23, 1951."
Date: April 13, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0276]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joseph Danne, who developed the nation's No. 1 early maturing wheat, was found dead in his farm home seven miles southwest of El Reno Wednesday."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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