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[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0955]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "After considerable eyeballing, James H. Robinson, director of traffic control, has made a decision on an especially interesting traffic problem involving curves."
Date: June 16, 1969
Creator: Fisher, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1207.0321]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While many Oklahoma City residents were concerned today over where their children would attend school, one Oklahoma City man's primary concern was that they get there safely."
Date: September 3, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1186.0036]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Four Oklahoma County youths pleaded guilty Monday to charges of raping a 15-year-old San Antonio girl and were sentenced to five years in prison. District Judge Boston W. Smith suspended the last two years of each five-year sentence for James D. Fellers Jr., Michael Otis Stanley, Richard Payton Stanley, and Larry Wyatt Smith (pictured in middle) ."
Date: July 8, 1965
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1142.0374]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WITH NEW YEAR just a few turns of the clock away, take a look at the man in the picture and decide how many eyes you see."
Date: December 29, 1953
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1888]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "On October 24, Oklahoma City voters will be asked to approve a $39,850,00 bond issue. Included in this package proposal is $7 million for storm sewers to serve areas termed "critical" by the city engineering department. "Probably the most critical from an overall stand-point is for the deepening, widening, straightening and rip rapping of certain major drainage tributaries serving large areas of development," W. W… more
Date: 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9637]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It was a great day Saturday for dedicating highways, making speeches and planting trees. All three occurred and when it was all over the Stanley Draper Expressway across downtown Oklahoma City was officially opened to traffic. The morning was crisp and so were bacon and the speeches. More than 300 friends of Draper, the untiring executive vice president of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, rolled out of bed earl… more
Date: January 8, 1966
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5460]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This Lincoln County city crackled Wednesday to the sound of bulldozers, winch trucks, axes and hammers as volunteer workers pitched in to help tornado stricken neighbors rebuild and cleanup from the ravages of last Saturday night's twister. More than 250 men, women and high school students were toiling under a bright May sun as the task of cleaning up the damage wrought by Mother Nature got well underway...Monday night… more
Date: May 4, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2615]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In 1926, a Tulsa beauty, Norma Smallwood, went to Atlantic City as Miss Okalhoma and came home as Miss America. That same year the daughter of millionaire oilman Harry Sinclair was given a 1926 Rolls Royce by her doting father. Forty years later another Oklahoma girl, Jayne Jayroe, of Laverne, went to Atlantic City as Miss Oklahoma and became Miss America. At the same time, Oklahoma City's Mayor Shirk acquired Miss S… more
Date: September 12, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0441]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A sadistically beaten and mistreated 5-year-old boy, Lloyd George stanley, was near death in University hospital Wednesday."
Date: January 26, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0452]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd George Stanley closed his pain-filled eyes for the last time early Thursday morning and found peace in death after 22 days of living hell."
Date: February 3, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1355.1030]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Weatherman John W. Hamilton and his crew of forecaster keep their best weather eye peeled for conditions that spawn tornadoes-dry cool air aloft and warm moist air at lower levels."
Date: April 9, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0420]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two amateur bank bandits who climbed to a niche in big time crime by robbing two banks within three weeks Wednesday found themselves facing a maximum of 55 years imprisonment after pleading guilty in federal court."
Date: December 4, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0404.0471]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Handling the shovels at ground breaking ceremonies for the living flame memorial to the state's war veterans were, from left, Tom Smith, Scott tuxhorn and Hugh P. Haugherty."
Date: October 15, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0284.0227]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The state commander of the American Legion Thursday called on Gov. Bartlett and University of Oklahoma officials to halt the scheduled appearance Friday night at OU of Dick Gregory, retired Negro comedian and militant civil rights spokesman."
Date: July 21, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0392.0154]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Shades of Bonnie and Clyde ! The 444th fastest gun in the west was the terror of the highway patrol cadet training pistol range Tuesday."
Date: September 10, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7275]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Hammer noise echoed up and down "tornado alley" Friday as storm victims in Rush Springs, Bradley and Washington rebuilt from the wreckage left from the twister just one week ago. It takes only seconds for a tornado to swep through leaving death, injury and debris in its wake, but the cleaning up process take time. Scars of the tornadoes are harder to earse. twisted trees, loose bricks and scattered hinks of metal wil… more
Date: March 19, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "For the past 10 days some mighty peculiar smells have been detected belching from the general direction of the state capitol. At first the odor was only faint, like a whiff of burning rubber on a damp day. But each succeeding day since June 19 the intensity of the odor has increased until now it is strongly discernable in all sections of Oklahoma. The odor can be sniffed from the North Fork of the Red in western Okla… more
Date: September 26, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6447]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma passed a bloody milestone Thursday and the tragic end is not in sight. Oklahoma's highway toll now stand at 502 and unless death takes a holiday, a new road fatality record will be set before the bells toll out the old year and bring in the new. The record was set in 1936 - the year before the highway patrol was organized - when 685 persons died on Oklahoma highway. When that record was set, Oklahoma citizen… more
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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