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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6709]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Sunday Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma quarterback Dean Blevins had plenty of company while sitting on the bench between touchdown drives Saturday afternoon. In the top photo, coach Barry Switzer issues instructions to the senior signal-caller. At bottom, Blevins (left) and split end Steve Rhodes are all smiles as the Sooners quickly run away from Utah."
Date: September 16, 1977
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1393]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of three firemen at a burned to the ground building, the one on the left is bending over with smoke around him, the center is standing, the right one atop a ceiling/roof, other firemen in the far left background, and more.)"
Date: March 16, 1966
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9768]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Colin Robertson, foreground, is one of the state's top amateur tennis players, but he and Don Williams aren't practicing for doubles match. They're actually meeting in the finals of the Oklahoma City Handicap squash racquet tournament over the weekend at the downtown YMCA. Times photographer Cliff Traverse caught this action with a fiosh eye lens. Williams, from Fort Sill, downed Robertson for the title."
Date: February 16, 1974
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10166]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Still burning and smoking is county landfill at SE 74 and Bryant operated by District 2 County Commissioner Frank Lynch, who was out of town today, first brought the fire to attention of the city-county health department explaining an 8-year old boy had set it. Dave Cleveland, director of environment health, said one of the problems was a heavy load of dumping over the weekend and not enough equipment to cover it prope… more
Date: April 16, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6938]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Paraboloids Predominate in this architect's sketch of the proposed Western Heights junior-senior highschool to be built southwest of Oklahoma City. The large section is an elliptical paraboloid covering the all-purpose rooms, while the classrooms lie under a group of hyperbolic paraboloids. Jack L. Scott is the architect in the construction of this modernistic structure, to be financed with a $215,000 bond issue on wh… more
Date: July 16, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4636]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bridges are big around Oklahoma City anymore. This massive affair is the three-level interchange on Raymond Gary expressway which is the reason for the Reno detour. Note the tiny figure of a man framed by the bridges. He's at work on a structure which will tie together traffic on the expressway, the Tinker diagonal and the downtown throughway."
Date: September 16, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6129]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ruptured cattle truck pushes through guard rails and hangs over scene of death and destruction. Dead, dying and injured steers and heifers are strawn over the traffic island. Broken utility pole is at center of photo."
Date: May 16, 1965
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10265]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Boats at left are shown chugging down the main street of flood-stricken Dover. The picture, looking north, was snapped from a city fire department boat by Richard Cobb. (O-1-5-58): Dover's Highway main street was turned into a waterway after a heavy cloudburst."
Date: May 16, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4400]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shaping of things to come in 1954 is underway on the part of the street layout for the new $4,745,000 fairgrounds west of May avenur, between 10 and Reno, as heavy dirt moving equipment tears into the preliminary rough grading job. The picture here looks toward the old sandlot baseball park, in the background. First grading and drainage work is being done by Oklahoma Construction Co., Muskogee. Contracts also have been l… more
Date: September 16, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9769]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Future Home for the YWCA Ione Branch is this $348,000 facility, one of the goals in the current YWCA expansion fund campaign for $971,000. Because of the critical situation existing in the Ione building which was constructed many years ago for summer activities and was considered beyond repair, the first unit at Ione has been constructed on "faith" of the success of the fund drive at a cost of about $90,000."
Date: March 16, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3570]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A motorist's dream came true in Oklahoma Saturday when the 88-mile Turner turnpike, linking Tulsa and Oklahoma City, was officially opened. Scattered thunderstorms threatened ribbon-cutting ceremonies at six cities along the way, but it didn't discourage eager drivers who lined their cars up by the thousands for a free ride before toll charges began at 3 p.m....Perhaps the happiest man at the dedication was former Gov.… more
Date: May 16, 1953
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5836]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It Wasn't Much Of A Fire but a lot of firemen got wet as they fough for control over a loose and thrashing hose Friday afternoon after an alarm at the Hales Building, Main and Robinson. The "fire" turned out to be only an electric short in a fluorescent light in a sixth floor office. But when firemen attached a high pressure hose to the building's intake pipe, the connection broke and suddenly the men had a wild and wet b… more
Date: July 16, 1965
Creator: Brown, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1430]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Putnam City instructors intently at Merican Federation of Teachers meeting that prefaced possible court action. Claiming School board memebers have made "mockery" of negotations, the Putnam City Association of Classroom Teachers has indicated legal action may be sought against local administrators in an attempt to end an 18-month bargaining deadlock. Dave Webster, Putnam City ACT president, indicated the g… more
Date: November 16, 1977
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6972]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WKY-TV station officals are caught in a dramatic view of the new tower which emphasizes the amount of steel used in construction. Also shown on the right is an elevator that allows maintenance men to go directly below the antenna itself for repairs or inspection."
Date: April 16, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7801]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The time has come," the prompter said, "to talk of many things. The price of shoes and sealing wax. And wether Taft has wings." And having brought two of the state's colorful characters together Tuesday, friend listened for talk of politics. But William H. Murray, former governor, sold books instead to Thomas P. Gore, former senator."
Date: December 16, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10266]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This photo of E Main in Enid, with violent currents carrying the floodways from Boggy creek though town, was taken from the top of the Rock Island railroad bridge."
Date: May 16, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3912]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Little bit of music for a sea of little children was the offering Wednesday morning at All Soul's Episcopal Church where two Kinder-Koncerts were presented by the Oklahoma City Symphony Sinfonetta, Harvey Garber conducting. The concerts are sponsored by the Women's Committee for the Symphony. The symphony is conducting its sustaining fund drive for $130,000 which will help budget the 1966-67 season. The next set of c… more
Date: February 16, 1966
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8035]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What happens to a hard-working family when oil flows from the cotton fields of their farm a few days before Thanksgiving and brings surprise riches? That is the story of an Oklahoma couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Long, who bought a farm south of Elk City in 1907 and have struggled for a living there ever since. The family wirked and saved all through the hard, lean years. Crop failures and cyclones and dusty winds, and final… more
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6322]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Probably the Burrage Warners have a good view from their boat, but it's too bad they can't see what a glorious picture they made as they sail across Lake Hefner."
Date: May 16, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1104]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Historic evacuation test of a supersonic transport Thurday at Oklahoma City's Federal Avation Administration facility saw 289 persons pouring out of emergency exits in to separate tests to determine future construction saftey standards."
Date: November 16, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3580]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "More than 7,500 persons were on hand Staurday for the formal turnpike dedication ceremonies at Stroud. This aerial view shows cars parked on both sides of the four-lane highway and high school bands lined up around the speakers' stand. Gov. Murray and Roy J. Turner, former governor, both spoke at the opening. A pageant and parade marked the event at Stroud, central point on the road."
Date: May 16, 1953
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10392]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "At the right, is what happens - a couple of passenger trains, and a number of frieghts attacked in the huge yards at Waynoka-when a bridge went out over Rock creek at Shattuck. There are two troop trains in this group and two more to arrive during the day. Sante Fe officials had all their trains on two lines in here because there was a detour from an earlier flood near Syracuse, Kan., when a bridge went out there."
Date: May 16, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5882]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Force of firehose is puny compared to furious fire. Firemen fought valiantly, although more than 20 of them were overcome by smoke or heat, Wednesday afternoon keeping the $675,000 fire at Oklahoma City University from becoming worse. Three buildings were destroyed after the blaze started in the basement of the student union building. Students joined with the firemen to cut the loss as much as possible, hauling schoo… more
Date: June 16, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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