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[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0088]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two old timers at the Will Rogers weather beau are Gerald Crawford, veteran meteorologist, and this triple recorder. Parts of the machine were used when the weather bureau was opened here in 1897"
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317B.0272]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "What an eyeful of gleam teachers had in your day, grandmother!" Wanda May seems to be murmuring to her own image in the mirror."
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0974B.0792]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THERE IS A RACE with time going on in front of the grandstand at the fairgrounds, scrictly without a program, names or numbers"
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0671]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Parade of Industry building at the exposition has many educational and entertaining displays such as this one of the Oklahoma Structural Steel Fabricators. (Howard Armer and Judy Warren pictured) ."
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0711]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An unobstrusive white box was taken from an American Airlines plane at Will Rogers feild Thursday and hurried under armed guard to the safty of a sealed vault at the Liberty National Bank & Trust Co."
Date: June 7, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0396.0467]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jarman junior high school students will have a much larger gymnasium and physical education building when maintenance personnel complete $25,000 to $35,000 alterations on the present gym."
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0588]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ralph Davis, one of four experts from the U. S. Postal Service, who is supervising the first day of cancellations of commerative stamps for Oklahoma's Semi-Centennial. Here he shows Wanda Durham the proper way to affix the stamp for first day cancellations while Dorothy Poor looks on."
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10672]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Touch-And-Go Problem still confronting officials of the Oklahoma Semi-Centennial exposition Wednesday night was the opening of May Ave. before the big show opens Friday. A double lane of asphaltic concrete has already been laid to provide access from the south to the main fairground entrance, but rains Wednesday stopped plans to lay asphaltic concrete to give a north access. Barring more rain before Thursday morning, ho… more
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10633]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dry ground was a welcome sight at the Oklahoma Semi-Centennial exposition grounds this week as the sun finally scattered rain clouds that had pagued construction efforts several weeks. Now working around the clock, workmen are rapidly getting the grounds in shape for the Friday grand opening of the 24-day event. This aerial progress report shows the relative locations of some of the more prominent displays where visitors … more
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7558]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Year's Water Supply for Oklahoma City has already gone down the North Canadian river this year and more is coming. This view shows the river surging through the Lake Overholserbypass canal, at right. Heavy rains which filled the two the city lakes and the city's 90,000 acre-feet of storage at Canton dam produced the surplus. Lake Overholser , full to the brim for more than a month, can take no more water. Lake Hefner … more
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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