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[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0478]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A wartime shortage of good merchandise in an Oklahoma City woman's shop has created a new industry here employing 25 and giving promise for many more."
Date: May 17, 1949
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0119]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Rock Island rail;way broought early day equipment from as far away as Chicago to the Pittsburgh county site. This old passenger coach was used in some fight sequeence in shich a train dashed across a burning bridge."
Date: September 13, 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0451]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Building is boomin inside the wall at the Oklahoma penitentiary but construction boys are not getting paid much in actual cash. The prisoners are getting "good time" (time off) for their work and they're happy about it."
Date: October 6, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0116]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Green Valley Junction wasn old railway stop on the early Rock ISland as it built westward out of Chicago and on to the Mississippi. Here is the movie replica of the depot on the set southwest of Haileyville. Grant Withers in a beaver hat is getting ready for a scene."
Date: September 18, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0120]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Forrest Tucker is the star of "Rock Island Trail," and he was so elated at getting the lead role after 10 years in films he brought his movie from Washington to see him at work."
Date: September 13, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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