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[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0067]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Still playing the part of the unemotional killer, William Edward Cook jr., the former Missouri bicycle thief, was slated to be arraigned in El Centro, Calif., Saturday for his sixth slaying."
Date: January 25, 1951
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0228]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "If you took a stick and stirred all the Sooner football fans in the lobby of the Sherman hotel, there would be quite a passel of them."
Date: October 26, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1235.0001]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Every driver has one particular thing he dreads the most while battling traffic. Reporter Bob McMillin talked with over-the-road truck driver Leo B. Scott, OKC, about his biggest driving fear - Scott answered, "Meeting cars without lights (on) and drunken drivers." Scott works for Voss Truck Lines, Inc."
Date: August 17, 1954
Creator: Swatek, James
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0441]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A sadistically beaten and mistreated 5-year-old boy, Lloyd George stanley, was near death in University hospital Wednesday."
Date: January 26, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0452]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd George Stanley closed his pain-filled eyes for the last time early Thursday morning and found peace in death after 22 days of living hell."
Date: February 3, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1116.0225]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jan. 15-Prosecution attorneys Tuesday afternoon leveled what they termed their strongest barrage of evidence against former state Sen. John W. Russell Jr., Okmulgee, in the state's effort to prove he is guilty of using emergency relief funds to finance his state senate re-election campaign."
Date: January 14, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1066.0331]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A 49-year-old department store and jewelry store clerk fought for her life here Friday and her 50-year-old estranged husband was dead, as the climax of a hectic six-month marriage."
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1142.0374]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WITH NEW YEAR just a few turns of the clock away, take a look at the man in the picture and decide how many eyes you see."
Date: December 29, 1953
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5460]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This Lincoln County city crackled Wednesday to the sound of bulldozers, winch trucks, axes and hammers as volunteer workers pitched in to help tornado stricken neighbors rebuild and cleanup from the ravages of last Saturday night's twister. More than 250 men, women and high school students were toiling under a bright May sun as the task of cleaning up the damage wrought by Mother Nature got well underway...Monday night… more
Date: May 4, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0441]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A sadistically beaten and mistreated 5-year-old boy, Lloyd George stanley, was near death in University hospital Wednesday."
Date: January 26, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0452]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lloyd George Stanley closed his pain-filled eyes for the last time early Thursday morning and found peace in death after 22 days of living hell."
Date: February 3, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1355.1030]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Weatherman John W. Hamilton and his crew of forecaster keep their best weather eye peeled for conditions that spawn tornadoes-dry cool air aloft and warm moist air at lower levels."
Date: April 9, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0420]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two amateur bank bandits who climbed to a niche in big time crime by robbing two banks within three weeks Wednesday found themselves facing a maximum of 55 years imprisonment after pleading guilty in federal court."
Date: December 4, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7275]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Hammer noise echoed up and down "tornado alley" Friday as storm victims in Rush Springs, Bradley and Washington rebuilt from the wreckage left from the twister just one week ago. It takes only seconds for a tornado to swep through leaving death, injury and debris in its wake, but the cleaning up process take time. Scars of the tornadoes are harder to earse. twisted trees, loose bricks and scattered hinks of metal wil… more
Date: March 19, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "For the past 10 days some mighty peculiar smells have been detected belching from the general direction of the state capitol. At first the odor was only faint, like a whiff of burning rubber on a damp day. But each succeeding day since June 19 the intensity of the odor has increased until now it is strongly discernable in all sections of Oklahoma. The odor can be sniffed from the North Fork of the Red in western Okla… more
Date: September 26, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6447]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma passed a bloody milestone Thursday and the tragic end is not in sight. Oklahoma's highway toll now stand at 502 and unless death takes a holiday, a new road fatality record will be set before the bells toll out the old year and bring in the new. The record was set in 1936 - the year before the highway patrol was organized - when 685 persons died on Oklahoma highway. When that record was set, Oklahoma citizen… more
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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