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[Photograph 2012.201.B0244.0071]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When Mrs. Maude Cowan, Southeastern State College librarian made a scrapbook of clippings about former governor William H. Murray, she didn't know it would land her in the "Oklahoma Navy"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0438]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It isn't China or the Philippines , where she had, hoped to be at about this stage of her life, but Mary Cothran , new assistant hostess at Hallie McKinney hall, is finding her assignment at the Southeastern State college women's dormitory interesting even in comparison with assignments she's has in foreign lands."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0300]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eighteen high schools and one junior high school will be represented at the eleventh annual Southeastern State college band festival Monday and Tuesday, Dr. Howard H. Rye, head of the music department said. The festival is expected to attract about 800 students. Guest conductor will be Leonard V. Falcone, music professor and director of bands at Michigan State university."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0194]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Is scattered all over the side of a hill in northwest Durant. The gym vocational buildings, put up several years ago, can be seen at the left, while the cafeteria and classrooms are in the center."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0783]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NEW RED RIVER LINK between Texas and Oklahoma is being rushed to completion as workmen pour the first paving on the new bridge between the two states that will carry U. S. 69-75 traffic."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0204]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FOR COMMISSIONER OF CHARITIES and Corrections, Buck Cook, incumbent, left, is opposed for the Democratic nomination for commissioner of charities and corrections by Mrs. Goldie G. Childers, Mounds, business woman and housewife."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0267.0414]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "First work opens on Durant's newest suburban housing project."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0340.0341]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Milam King Jr., Checotah, seems to be following in the footsteps of his father, who is state representative from McIntosh County. The younger politician of the family is the newly-elected president of the student senate of Southeastern State College."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0499]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Television is an added attraction to heated fishing at Rick's Barge, located in Newberry creek just off U.S. 70 nine miles of Durant."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0378]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Horse lots, like this one in Durant, always had plenty if customers when farmer came to town."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0160]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A heavy crane on the highway atop giant Denison dam, above, eases a truck-load of rock down the steep up-stream side of the dam ass if it were a toy."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0159]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A heavy crane on the highway atop giant Denison dam, above, eases a truck-load of rock down the steep up-stream side of the dam as if it were a toy."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0155]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "/anglers line up along the banks of Red river, below Dennison Dam where the fishing has been sensational ever since the flood gates were first opened this spring."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0553.0617]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Caddo county Judge Dewey E. Hodges."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0199]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cook was born in Gainesville, Texas, Aug. 18, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0797]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This was once the only span over the Red River between Durant and Dennison, Texas."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0303]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's starting right tackle this week."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0221]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. W. L. Edwards"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0098]
Caption: "When Excel Body Corp., manufacturers of school buses, needed more space, Durant offered a large hangar; then raised $14,000 to replace the building with a new hangar for their airport."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0166]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bryan county court clerk Raymond Grimes says highway signs such as this are partly to blame for the county's reputation as a "marriage mill."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0694]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Laverne Clary, Talihina, and Calvin Kennedy, Caddo, will represent Southeastern State college in the Miss and Mr. Teacher Contest May 3-7 at East Texas State College, Commerce, Texas."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0100]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sunshine and happiness for the elderly is provided by a new home in Durant."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0117]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Under construction for the last eight months, the new church building for the First Church of the Nazarene in Durant is completed and will be dedicated by the congregation Sunday."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0186]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0191]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beautiful Durant highschool was completed in September, 1957 , at a cost of $909,385."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0099]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The state's only wooden box factor is in Durant."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0101]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "waiting room leads into the garden patio that centers the ultra modern clinic, located across the street from the new Bryan County Memorial Hospital in Durant."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0185]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0107]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Erle Cocke jr., Dawson, Ga., new national commander of the American Legion will dedicate a new America Legion memorial Building in Durant October 28 in one of four stops the commander will make in Oklahoma."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0569]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three enemy planes destroyed is the score of Lt. Col. William Cosby Jr., Sabrejet pilot from Durant, shown decked out in flying togs"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0192]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "New Durant High School ."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0181]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Durant will open this new building Sunday. It is the first unit in a 10-year building project designed to provide vocational training for highschool students."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0175]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The virtually completed auditorium of the new Durant highschool 15-room classroom section as at right."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0112]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Highway patrol district No. 3 had a new home Thursday in Durant."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0220]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. W. L. Edwards"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0304]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Merrill Green (left) had a big smile after the win, but too tired for any celebration was guard Melvin Brown (right)."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0300]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0305]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0207]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In this modern age of jet travel and the H-bomb, most folks are too sophisticated to put much stock in jinxes and other superstitious nonsense. Take "water witches" for example. Not many people believe that in fellow with a willow branch clasped tightly in both hands can really find water. If one wants to find water he should to about it scientifically, using gadgets with flashing lights and dials, and maybe even a bugger or two tossed in for good measure. That may be all right for some folks, but not for Charlie Fisher. Fisher is a 78 year old Bryan county farmer who believed in the water witch. And, lucky or not, fisher gambled twice on the water witch and has won both times."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0190]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of Durant's most serious handicaps is the five-year old shuttle-bus service. Nearly half the highschool student body is transported daily every hour between the vocational building and the old, inadequate highschool building."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0383]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "DURANT, March 13- How would you like to have a playful 210-pound dog running around the house? Would it make much difference to your pocketbook to feed such an animal five or six pounds of meat a day?"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0118]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The newly completed St. Williams' Catholic church in Durant was dedicated by Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness, Oklahoma City, assisted by 75 priest from over Oklahoma."
BASEMENT BOX 67.0262
Photograph taken at night of a structure engulfed in flames and smoke. Silhouettes of people in a crowd are in the foreground.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0105]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "entrance is dramatized by the steel lattice supports, each painted a vivid color."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0102]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "it seems for business in "quickie" weddings is booming for Rev. Jack Neville, who has put up this bright new sign to attract altar-bound couples."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0157]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fred Daniels, unemployed Durant man, put this sign up in his yard on U."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0149]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Durant's Eaker air field facilities south of the city are used now as an industrial site."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0123]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Durant Nazarene church is being repaired after fire of almost two months ago."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0761]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Since he had been planning his trip to America for many months, Frank Chou of Tamsui, Formosa, did not anticipate arriving i Durant when his country was making top headlines."
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0260]
Photograph is of a single story structure that has been gutted out by a fire. The flames are still visible and smoke is rising out of the top of the structure where a roof once was. The silhouette of a fireman is in front of the building.
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