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[Photograph 2012.201.B0993.0221]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Namesake of Oolagah Dam and Reservoir is this little community in central Rogers County, famed as the birthplace of the late Will Rogers."
Date: September 2, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0094]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Grace and Beauty, and swirling skirts, help make "Headlines of 1960," one of the fastest numbers in the "Fair Follies" this year before the night grandstand of the State Fair of Oklahoma."
Date: September 2, 1960
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4387]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "New Name will be seen on this main gate and boulevard leading into the Fairgrounds. It is now Gen. John J. Pershing Avenue, named by the city council to commemorate the 100th birthday of Gen. Pershing after recommendation by Sgt. James B. McCarthy, army information officer here. Gen. Pershing, America's World War I European Expeditionary Forces commander, was stationed here in 1904 as the United States' Southwestern D… more
Date: September 2, 1960
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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