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[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0080]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The hit of the entire goodwill tour was the Kiltie all-girl drill team and band sponsored by Oklahoma City's American Legion Post 35, shown performing at Okemah."
Date: May 7, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0150]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Farm Girl Leads WAAC Mental Test -- With an eighth-grade education and a lot of hard work on a farm back of her, Isobel Grider, above, 21-year old Okfuskee woman, finished 15 minutes ahead of all others in there group--some with five years of college--taking the WAAC mental examination here."
Date: October 6, 1942
Creator: Baughman, Betty

[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0355]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Okemah-Clad in borrowed clothes, Doris Hamilton requested herself in the dispatchers office of the Okfuskee County Sheriff's office late Friday afternoon and calmly explained a whirlwind journey from the hum-drum to terror at the hands of an escaped convict."
Date: May 29, 1976
Creator: Southerland, Paul

[Photograph 2012.201.B0279.0290]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Added attraction variety store show in Municipal Auditorium were these painting by N. D. Harkey, Okemah, onetime merchant who proved his colleagues you're never too old to take up a hobby."
Date: July 25, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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