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[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0246]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BURNS KEPT BUSY READING FAN MAIL - The sage of Van Buren, Ark., the bazooka playing Bob Burns, seen above at his dining room table, is kept busy reading fan mail because he likes to attend to it himself, and if anyone happens to think the days of fan mail are over he has only to look at the sacks of it received daily by the Arkansas wit."
Date: November 17, 1939
Creator: NBC News
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0251]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUST A PIPE DREAM - Bob Burns, the sage of Van Buren, Arkansas, takes the edge off of radio's intensive activity with a short nap in his specially-built "lounger's model" done up in white leather. Burns, funny enough to warrant the front page of his home town paper, is heard with Bing Crosby on the Kraft Music Hall every Thursday at 10:00 p.m., E.D.S.T., over the NBC-Red Network."
Date: May 18, 1936
Creator: NBC News
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0274]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cruising the Gulf Coast aboard he yacht Miss Oklahoma City II, are left to right, Mardi and George Cornmon, Oklahoma City, and Ray and Warren D. Segraves, Fayetteville, AR., top row, Mary and Monty Wells, Oklahoma City."
Date: May 19, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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