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[Photograph 2012.201.B0418B.0424]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mountain Park, Okla., grocer George Mathey had been blind in one eye for 30 years and the other was failing badly as he scanned an article in The Sunday Oklahoman 12 years ago. He was 51 at the time, and had a wife and three children, the youngest of whom was only 12, and his vision was fading fast. He would later receive a corneal transplant, and has been thriving in this Southwest Oklahoma community since."
Date: August 8, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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