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[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0580]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William John Otjen, Republican candidate for governor, is shown with Mrs. Otjen and their youngest daughter, Helen, a senior in home economics at the University of Oklahoma."
Date: July 29, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0089]

Description: Photograph is of a multiple story brick industrial complex. out of the middle structure, smoke is pouring out. There is brick rubble and burnt debris around the exterior of the structure. Caption: "Here is the Champlin Oil Co. refinery as it appeared Friday following a disastrous overnight fire which swept through the plant, leaving a big high-pressure still, two low-pressure units and a cracking unit in ruins."
Date: September 12, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1408.0093]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agriculture, warned a crowed of 1,500 farmers at Enid Tuesday night of a "sudden and staggering' drop in wheat prices unless they vote for crop quotas Saturday."
Date: 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413B.0270]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A bird-man in more ways than one is 24-year-old Robert Madden, Oklahoma City, newly crowned state badminton champion and aviation cadet at the Enid Army Flying School. He won the state title at Ponca City last weekend, and was an athlete at the University of Pittsburgh (basketball, track and tennis)."
Date: June 5, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6053]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of buildings destroyed, a lot of black smoke center to left, two smoke stacks, railroad tracks across the bottom, a raised round pipe line across the middle, and more. Backside handwriting: "Champlin Refinery, Enid")"
Date: 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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