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[Photograph 2012.201.B0294.0066]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clarence Davis, Walters March of Dimes director, hands saddlebags up to Ben Grimes, Round-Up club rider, for a trial run of the pony express race to be held January 30."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0376]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Six Persons Are Injured as Auto Smashes Into Overpass. Six persons were injured, one believed seriously, early Saturday when their auto skidded on snow and crashed into the concrete railing at the north end of the Eastern overpass at SE 4 and Eastern. The six persons were treated at Mercy hospital for cuts and bruises and released. The driver, Bill C. Janson, 20, and Joe Allen Roberts, 20, both Tinker airman, were transferred to the tinker air force base hospital. Roberts received cuts and bruises and glass in the right eye."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0334]
Caption: "Edward S. Correta, 212 W Kittyhawk, Midwest City, supervisor in an electrical maintenance unit at Tinker Air Force Base, reached back beyond World War I this week to give the children in the neighborhood a tight wire walking exhibition." Man walks on a tightrope while holding a parasol over his head.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only minor scratches. They were assisted to the bank by several unidentified men who were fishing nearby. Car Plunges Off Bridge The car landed on the driver`s side in about five feet of water. Most of the last four or five months, the river has been bank-full and has had a swift current. But the last two weeks it had fallen four or five feet. If the river had been at the higher level, several feet of water would have covered the car. Mrs. Thompson said she was driving the car across the bridge, which is about a half mile east of Shawnee. She said the car slipped off the plank runners which are on the bridge flooring. When she tried to bring the car back up on the runners she lost control. The car plunged off one side of the bridge-there was no guard rail on this end-and "we thought we were gone," Mrs. Thompson said. Both Lucky, Unlucky At one time almost hundred spectators were gathered at the scene. The car was hauled out of the water about two hours after the accident. The girls considered themselves lucky to get out alive. But they also thought they were unlucky. The car, given to Mrs. Thompson only a month ago by her husband who is in Korea, was almost a total loss. And to top …
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0387]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "F.C. Daniels, accident investigator, is shown at the left helping to put Lavelle on an ambulance cot. Scout car officer H.D. Newsom is shown in the background. No charges were filed."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0533]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These brilliant Texas golfers and their coach exude confidence and smiles as they leave a Braniff plane here Sunday upon arrival at Municipal airport."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0178]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These are the judges who dealt out joy or disappointment to 960 junior and high school students competing in the regional Scholastic Art awards."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0317]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Having completed her "boot" training, Pvt. Lahoma Downing, lady marine, is spending a short leave of absents with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Downing, 1717 NE 21."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0153.0350]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0424]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frank Jones, vice-president of the Local Federal Saving & Loan association, has been elected president of the Credit Men's Dinner club, succeeding Freed Sanders, of the Library National Bank."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0322B.0357]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0301B.0236]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Edgar Hull, head of the department of medicine, Louisiana State University school of medicine, New Orleans."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0299B.0356]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Robert Howard devotes much time to his son, Bobby, 3, and dogs."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0343.0081]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Another family of Oklahomans left last week to begin a new kind of life a long way from home. Rev. and Mrs. Cecil C. Knippers and their two daughters, Loucinda, 5 years old, and Sue, 9, left Wednesday for Los Angeles, Calif., where they will board a ship for Hawaii. Mr. Knippers will become the district superintendent of the Nazarene Church in the islands."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0353.0350]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Despite the prospect of slim sails, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dahlgren (center photo ) of 2038 NW 25, members of Oklahoma City Boat club, unfurled the canvas to join scores of other boating enthusiasts at Lake Hefner Sunday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0505.0096]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leaving Sunday for the west coast will be Mr. and Mrs. Earle W. Gray Jr. and their daughter, Mary Ellen Gray, 13 months."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0624]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Now vacationing in Denver, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo., are Dr. and Mrs. Robert Griffin and their daughter, Lou Eleanor Griffin, 3."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0540]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0301B.0469]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dorothy Humphries"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0299B.0413]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In the back row are H. Howell, Mildred Irgmine, Lawana Edmonds, Shirley Sanders and principal J. D. Giddens."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0142]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0123]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "For the first time in Oklahoma history, people living in the Talihina and Clayton sections of the Winding Stair and Kiamichi mountains country can drive all the way to Oklahoma City on hard-surfaced roads."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0270]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of Major county's earliest landmarks was fast disappearing from the landscape this week, as former members of the South Mennonite Brethren Church 41/2 miles southeast of Fairview, dismantled the building for use in a new parsonage near the Fairview Mennonite church."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0297]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SGT. Robert E, Davis, 23 recently returned from 11 months in Korea, has been assigned to the Oklahoma military district headquarters as assistant message center sergeant."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0076]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0638]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Davis' vehicle, right, traveled 186 feet out of control and overturned. Miss Canny was charged with reckless driving following the accident. Davis was not injured."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0094.0751]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's the man who keeps track of your money."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0182]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0307]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Indications are that it's a good rodeo team, for last Saturday at Dodge City, Kan., the team split one first place, took one second split a second, and took one fourth."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0454]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lexington, June 16--At a time when price wars, bargain sales and price controls are the rule, the Collins Men's Furnishing store in Lexington seems like an anchor to saner days."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0252.0088]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "President of the National Apartment Owners association, Everett . Curtis, an Oklahoma City realtors , was elected at the recent convention in Minneapolis."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0322]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "has been named general agent for Hancock in Tulsa"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0649]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ollie Marie Canny, 24, of Edmond, was treated at Mercy hospital Friday afternoon for deep lacerations on both arms after the car she was driving, a 1951 Mercury, left, struck the rear end of another car, driven by Cecil Brice Davis, 37, of 5913 NW 42, in the 4500 block N Eastern, Miss Canny's car traveled 286 feet out of control before running into a weed-filled ravine."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0077]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0759]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coach Breithaupt and the Central Cardinals will represent the Oklahoma City region in the state high school basketball championship tournament"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0105.0546]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is the Meadowbrook squad which won the state class C boys title in the state basketball tournament Saturday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0414]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The University of Oklahoma medical school has acquired its first chairman of preventive medicine and public health in three years with the appointment of Dr. George M. Brother to the post."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0415B.0032]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mickey Mantle - Baseball - New York Yankees"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319B.0396]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These twelve men were chosen Monday to form an Oklahoma county grand jury, the first since 1949."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0290B.0206]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0420.0575]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DIRECTOR Ira E. McConnell, will succeed Joe N. Hamilton as director of the Oklahoma Commission for Crippled Children."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0099.0018]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Automobile Dealers association members, attending their annual convention here, elected new officers to guide the association during the next year, which dealers feared may be a rocky one for the automotive industry, considering government cutbacks and defense requirements."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1370.0761]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. George Small (left) , Bud Wilkinson and J.B. Whitworth chat during Monday's first meeting of the Quarterback club at the Biltmore."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0259]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.b1402.0070]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When John Chapman's mother carefully penned her son's name in the old family Bible in March, 1724, she little dreamed that the page would eventually turn up in Oklahoma some 227 years later."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0361]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B2000.0116]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tuesday afternoon was a busy one at eh new WKY-TV studios east of Britton. - TV cameraman Jack Turley, foreground, puts finishing touches on the installation of a camera, while on the studio floor a group of staff members map final switchover plans."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1140.0046]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B1140.0598]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Martha Ann Russell, dietitian at the Black Hotel since 1946, has been appointed food purchasing agent for Oklahoma City school cafeterias."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0098]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sydney Larson, Oklahoma City University art instructor, can use his hands with hammer and saw as well as with a brush and easel. Building functional furniture with odd materials is his specialty."
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