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[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0456]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MCALESTER, JUNE 9-- A $10 debt brought violent death Monday to diminutive Joe "Blackie " Driver, 50-year old state penitentiary inmate who had lived recklessly most of his adult life. Driver, serving a seven-year sentence for burglary from Oklahoma county, was beaten and stabbed by another convict. His body was found under a building near the prison canteen, less than 50 feet from the sergeant's office."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Lightning Caused Fire]

Description: Photograph of smoldering debris in field during daylight. Caption: "The ruins of 10,000 bales of Alfalfa, set afire by a bolt of lightning Sunday night, were still smoldering Tuesday on the Roy Wickham place, a mile east of Elk City."
Date: November 2, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0118.0103]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right, the Sooners' All-America guard, Buddy Burris, receives a slap on the shoulder from his "little" brother, Curt, a center on Muskogee high school's team."
Date: November 27, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0831]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This Kerry blue terrier, Baroness Blue Kathy, owned by Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Webb, 4017 NW 8, has seven points toward her championship and will try to add some more at the Town and Country Kennel club's all-breed show at Norman Sunday."
Date: November 10, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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