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[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0659]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only woman among 24 men who spend their days 100 feet above ground manning fire watch towers in forests of southeastern Oklahoma is Mrs. Sidney Breece, above."
Date: 1962
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0660]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Operating a "fire finder". This gadget that she aims at the base of the smoke column, gives her the exact compass reading of the fire from her tower."
Date: March 21, 1962
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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