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[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0290]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Oklahoma boy who used to throw erasers in Snyder grade school left for Washington Sunday to recieve from President Truman in the White House the nation's highest honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor."
Date: August 19, 1945
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Santa Fe (ATSF) 2507

Description: A 5 x 7 photograph print showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 2507, on southbound mixed freight passing through big cut in Quartz Mtns., near Lugert, OK. The cut in solid granite, 2000 ft. long and 110 ft. deep at the center, is part of the relocation of former Kansas City, Mexico & Orient line around Altus Lake in southwest Oklahoma. [This photo taken a few seconds before 2008.008.0936]
Date: November 19, 1945
Creator: George, Preston
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Santa Fe (ATSF) 2507

Description: A photograph print showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 2507, on southbound mixed freight passing through big cut in Quartz Mtns., near Lugert, OK. The cut in solid granite, 2000 ft. long and 110 ft. deep at the center, is part of the relocation of former Kansas City, Mexico & Orient line around Altus Lake in southwest Oklahoma. [This photo taken a few seconds after 2008.008.7073]
Date: November 19, 1945
Creator: George, Preston
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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