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[Photograph 2012.201.B0303.0130]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flight 1-9-5-6" will take-off Tue. and Wed nights in Lawton's McMahon auditorium with approximately 3,000 howling spectators aboard."
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0141]

Description: Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0047]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Marilyn Finney, 14 year old Tulsan, won the championship in her division at the recent Jaycee's International BB Gun Championships in FL. Shown with Marilyn is referee William Jordan, who presented her winning target to her."
Date: July 25, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0456]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MCALESTER, JUNE 9-- A $10 debt brought violent death Monday to diminutive Joe "Blackie " Driver, 50-year old state penitentiary inmate who had lived recklessly most of his adult life. Driver, serving a seven-year sentence for burglary from Oklahoma county, was beaten and stabbed by another convict. His body was found under a building near the prison canteen, less than 50 feet from the sergeant's office."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0310]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fannie Cook's most recent novel, "Storm Against the Wall "is the story of a Jewish family in America and their relatives who remained in Germany."
Date: August 25, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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