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[Photograph 2012.201.B0244.0133]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the most interesting and unusual people we ever knew was Chester A. Reynolds, the man who originated the idea for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, who was so wrapped up in the idealism behind it that for a decade, it became almost his sole activity."
Date: January 10, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0568]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Before you think this is an obituary we hasten to say that it is not. Neither is it a swan song. George F. Church isn't a swan anyway. His head is the normal distance from the rest o his body but it has been filled with state agriculture news since 1930."
Date: January 3, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0027]

Description: Photograph shows a man wearing a white hard hat behind a metal table with a pile of objects, such as a hand-gun, on it. The background shows a burned wall with two open windows in the center.
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0313.0128]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Foreign Missionary have failed in more than a century of effort to Christianize Asia, but " from now on they will have wonderful success."
Date: January 24, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0285]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It's a long way from Leningrad, Russia, to a farm outside Jones, OK, and it's an equally long jaunt in making adjustments to the American way of life from that of a refugee."
Date: November 19, 1958
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0302]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Coleman family, waiting only for warm weather, poses on their backyard boathouse, which will be launched on Lake Tenkiller this summer"
Date: February 23, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0266]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "From Lufkin, Texas, where one of the 16 aircraft control and warning squadrons of the 33rd Air Defense division is located, toured headquarters of the division, Oklahoma City airforce station, and received the air defense system story from Col. John T. Fitzwater, 33rd commander."
Date: October 30, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0147]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman standing in the center of where a building once stood and is now reduced to twisted, smoking metal and brick. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Smoking rubble is all that remains after a $50,000 fire leveled the Randall Sharpe Contracting Co. warehouse, shop and offices 2 1/2 miles north of Britton Tuesday afternoon."
Date: January 7, 1958
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289.0148]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Kenneth Thomas Dalton, 27, of 1624 SW 16, went to police headquarters to "straighten out a mistake" and spent two court sessions and 30 hours behind bars."
Date: April 30, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0513]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "L. K. covelle director of Oklahoma State Tech, Okmulgee, has been unanimously named president of the Okmulgee chamber of commerce for 1958, according to the board of directors."
Date: January 3, 1958
Creator: Spring, Kent
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0611]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "of wheat lay on the ground at Tyrone Monday following a freak explosion in a tube of the Compton grain elevator Saturday. Eldon Compton said workmen were removing grain form the tube when they heard a "crackling" sound and the concrete burst."
Date: September 8, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0175]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Virgil Clinton Cole jr., 17-year-old city youth went on trial in district court Wednesday accused of raping a 14-year-old school girl last March 10."
Date: November 12, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0723]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chances are persons strolling past the Ralph Cottrell property here during the past few weeks have heard "strange" musical tones coming from the garage. And no wonder, because Cottrell, recently retired superintendent of public utilities here, has been inside putting an antique Deagon Unafon into playing shape."
Date: November 16, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0024]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "And here's the normal make-up for a gal who's sleek, sophisticated some of the time, but a typical American girl type person the rest of the time."
Date: December 7, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413.0148]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Boosters made these deadly rattlers smile for the cameras Monday as they visited Oklahoma City to help publicize the upcoming Rattlesnake Roundup."
Date: April 21, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0296]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Uncle" Joe Fulkerson, 81, an Illinois cattle feeder, wants no cracks made about his being from Jerseyville when talking to Carlton Corbin, Ada Angus breeder, on the feeder buyer tour."
Date: August 8, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0419]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "March 15- Sister Mary Eleanor, of the Holy Trinity school here, for seven years has been doing her bit toward helping inmates at the El Reno Federal Reformatory adjust to their surroundings once they return to society."
Date: February 19, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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