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[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0739]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coal County's new courthouse, a sleek building of pre-stress concrete and brick, is rising on the site of the 1911 model, plagued for years with falling plaster and general deterioration."
Date: 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0254.0490]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These convicts have more rights than you and I do," said Coal County Sheriff F. R. Heck Friday after three escaped inmates of the Springtown Vocational Training School were captured, ending a rampage of kidnapping, assault and theft."
Date: 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0105.0561]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The bodies of four victims were found Sunday inside the twisted wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed in an open field eight miles north of Coalgate."
Date: February 2, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0795]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "All went well Thursday in Coalgate as demolition teams completed the task of transferring 35,000 pounds of air craft bombs from an overturned transport truck on the town's main street to others carriers."
Date: July 10, 1969
Creator: Argo, Dave Heaton/Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0239]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a gas well fire near Centrahoma in Coal County, Oklahoma. Intense flames were visible among the damaged rig where four workmen were injured by the fire. Caption: "LEAPING FLAMES surrounded this gas well that came in unexpected Sunday night near Centrahoma. Four men were injured when the fire stated and damage was estimated at $300.000. Workmen were attempting Monday to clear away wreckage so fire-fighting operations could begin."
Date: January 19, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0359]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William James Brooks, a square-jawed man with a flattened nose like a prizefighter's stood by the white frame house be built with his own hands and looked down the winding dirt road."
Date: November 12, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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