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[Photograph 2012.201.B0248.0105]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Joe Newton Croom sr., about 60, for 32 years an Okmulgee newspaperman, was found dead at his home early Tuesday morning."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0003]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Orvin Crist, a city employee since 1927, Monday took over the job of city treasurer, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Ollie Black."
[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.B0366.0175]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0359.0076]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A second trumpet, a second trombone, and set of timpani will complete this ensemble, to be heard in a concert of Christmas music in the chapel of First Presbyterian Church at 6:30 p.m. Sunday."
BASEMENT BOX 67.0444
Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd of people viewing the destruction of a burned building.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0312.0033]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There are all kinds of things you can learn at the "Do It Yourself Show" that will save money, make money and make things around you more beautiful or useful."
BASEMENT BOX 67.0307
Photograph taken at night of an oil well in flames. Caption: "Elk City Oil Well fire"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0138]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "George E. Failing"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0511]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Valentine Sweetheart of 1959 at the annual Sweetheart dance held at Oklahoma State Tech, Okmulgee on February 12."
[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.B0319.0060]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A large bust of Chief Joseph In-Mut-Too-Wah-Lat-Lat (which means " Traveling Over the Mountain" will he installed in the American Indian Hall of Fame at Anadarko at 10 a.m. Monday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0101]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nat "King" Cole, whose records have sold almost 50,000,000 copies, begins his own Monday night show on NBC - TV starting Nov. 5, with his trio and a 15 - piece orchestra."
[Basement Box 51.0049]
Caption: "Lawton high school senior, is helped into the FFA queen jacket presented to the LHS chapter by President Butch Faries."
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0256]
Photograph is of the remains of a wooden structure that was destroyed by a fire. Most of the roof is collapsed into the interior of the building and only part of a wall and charred wooded beams remains standing. Caption: "Fire Tuesday which destroyed a building housing the base chapel, gymnasium, post exchange and NCO club, at Clinton-Sherman air fore base has been blamed on faulty wiring. Maj. Ervin Bork, base fire marshal, estimated loss at $108,000."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0542]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. J. Mutual Leadership"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0272]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Leland Clegg, who calls himself a 'country boy' prepared Thursday to step down as Oklahoma City district superintendent for the Methodist church."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0238]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0169]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. James B. Law, 6412 NW Grand boulevard, is a veteran golfer."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0112]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1183]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "President of the Oklahoma County Home Demonstration council this year in Mrs. Tom Chesser, above, who lives 1 1/2 miles north of Jones. The mother of one son, Donnie, 10, her hobby is collecting pottery. Home Demonstration club members will have a style revue at 2 PM, October 30 in John A. Brown auditorium. Prizes range from a sewing machine to five yards of fabric"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0190]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "W. A. EDWARDS, 409 Wilson."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0563]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma State Fair Exhibits 1957"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0733]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0178]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. John T. Daniels and his new Baptist Church."
[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.B0053.0303]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kingfisher."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0179]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0798]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "of the Junior League of Oklahoma City working toward the success of the Southwest Horse cavalcade are (left to right) Mrs. Frank Johnson Hightower, 439 NW 15; Mrs. Todd Archbald, 1717 Huntington, and Mrs. H. H. Clifford jr., 501 NW 17."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0415.0092]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Okmulgee Tech college division students receive first instructions for the summer session."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0309]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It's a long way from Leningrad, Russia, to a farm outside Jones, OK., and it's an equally long jaunt in making adjustments to the American way of life from that of a refugee. But two girls, 19 and 21, have apparently made the grade in both areas and are now happily devoting their lives to service for their new country and community."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0096]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's a lot different from the days back in Oklahoma 25 years ago when he was chasing the likes of Pretty Boy Floyd and Matt Kimes, but the editor of Harper's magazine still leads a hectic life."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0363]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss Kathryn C. Rapp, harpist with the Oklahoma City Symphony, will teach harp, piano and theory this fall for Oklahoma City University, music school Dean Clarence Burg has announced."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0287]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Edwin Cook (left) Guthrie sophomore and Bob Whiddon, Amarillo, Texas, senior, University of Oklahoma high-jumpers, talk over their coming indoor meets with Nebraska at Lincoln February 20 and in the Big Seven Indoor championships February 26 and 27 ay Kansas City, Mo."
[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.B0053.0306]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Liquified petroleum cars, bottom photo, added to the danger."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0216]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wanda Earnest, "Mrs. Oklahoma"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0179]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two Oklahoma A&M freshmen have been named 4-H achievement winners and will be in line for further honors at the national 4-H congress in Chicago, November 29 to December 4."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0057]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stop" is not only good advice to drivers but also the name of a game that traffic court judge James Demopolos awarded these four pupils at Kaiser school."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0592]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0198]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "to an army serviceman's club in Europe means pouring and serving one thousand cups of coffee on Sunday morning, according to Miss Kathryn Bell who spent 21/2 years in Mannheim and Karlsruhe, Germany, clubs as a program director."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0220]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wanda and Bud Earnest and Sara"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0414.0133]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Carl Ferguson , the Oklahoma City stock car pilot who surprised even himself by winning the 400-lap Grand Prix here last year, has been named captain of the blue racing team for Friday's 8 p.m. hardtop program in Taft's stadium."
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0257]
Photograph is the remains of a wooden building that most was destroyed by fire. Burnt wooden studs and debris lies in the interior of the building with the back exterior wall half standing. Caption: "SHERMAN AIR FORCE BASE."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0127]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chick Crowther's Northwest Baptist roundballers, Junior church league champions, square off Saturday with trinity Baptist in the playoff rounds of the league."
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0555]
Photograph is of the remaining outside burnt walls of a three story structure. The roof, windows and front of the structure are missing due to a fire. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Bare walls left."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0211]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Northeastern Oklahoma 4-H club members, in a district meeting in which officers of each county in the 15-county area made up the voting delegation, have elected district officers."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0098]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0313.0031]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The women in the picture are Betty Cox, Wichita Falls; Violet Donahoe, Ponca City's defending state ladies' handicap queen and Bessie Lewis, Enid."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0221]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Soldier Winds Up In Hospital As Car Rams Truck Trailer-- This 1952 model auto looks like it had just tangled with a fright train."
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