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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5958]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A three-alarm fire roared through the Humpty-Dumpty supermarket at NW 37 and Western Friday morning, gutted the one story brick building and caused a loss estimated by company officials at $300,000. Firemen, their clothing and gear coated with ice, battled the blaze in 8-degree temperature and for a time were endangered when fire burned electrical transformers and high power lines at the rear of the building...Fire Chi… more
Date: January 22, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8040]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This is an aerial view of Okarche - population 532. If some sudden disaster should strike this town, killing all 532 residents in one fell swoop, the entire state would be shocked. Or if a vicious killer should wipe out all 532 residents over a 12-month period, the state would demanddrastic action. Yet 545 persons were killed in Oklahoma last year, 13 more that live in the entire town of Okarche - and the relentless … more
Date: January 8, 1954
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6749]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is the starting lineup for the New York Giants which oppose the titleholding Detroit Lions on Norman's Owen field Saturday at 8:05 p.m. Standing, left to right, are: end Ken MacAfee, Alabama; tackle Dick Yelvington, Georgia; guard Jack Stroud, Tennesse: center Ray Wietcha, Northwestern; guard George Kennard, Kansas; tackle Roosevelt Brown, Morgan State, and end Dick Wilkins, Oregon. Kneeling up front, left to right, … more
Date: September 2, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9848]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sometimes two or three pint-sized visitors can make a shoe department seem this crowded without moving at maximum speed. However, this is the real thing. Salesman J. E. Posey actually did find himself fitting 50 little stocking feet at one time. He testified the 25 kids from Baptist Children's City were model customers, with no tears, no tantrums, no nicked furniture, no bruised shins and not a sign of bubble gum. F… more
Date: October 22, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10535]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It's a long way up to the top of Bethany's water tower-some 140 feet-but climbing it these days are members of that city's water department and members of Kessler Co.'s face-lifting crew. The repairmen inside the tank itself; climbing for a look of their own are, top to bottom, Backie Norris, water superindentent, and two of his crew, Roy Crowley and Marion Dodds."
Date: March 1, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5889]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of three firemen spraying a two-story brick building on the right, heavy smoke everywhere, brick building on the left with the roof on fire, and more)"
Date: June 16, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4438]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial/satellite photo of the fairgrounds straight down with the fair's large buildings, but no arena or grand stand, parking lots are full, housing on the far left up and down, and more.\"
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9914]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Network of one-way streets approved by the city council for downtown Oklahoma City is shown, map above. Councilmen voted to put the one-way streets into effect as soon as possible as the first phase of the city-wide traffic program recommended in the Barton plan. Officials expect about six months will be required to get the first phase plan in operation. Plan provides two "one-way pairs" of east-west streets. They are M… more
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8312]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ever see a better picture of a shocked chimpanzee discussing a blank-blank-blank-blank-doublecross? Bill, the chilly chimp, may need earmuffs to shut out 20-degree weather at Lincoln Park zoo, but innocent visitors obviously need them worse to ward off his blistering opinion of it all. He is accustomed, he said forcefully, to kinder treatment from the weatherman. And Aren't we all?"
Date: January 12, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4845]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Juvenile deliquency is on the wane in Oklahoma City. It hit an all-time peak in 1952 and its been declining ever since. Juvenile court records show that in 1952 a total of 623 Oklahoma county youngsters appeared in the court. Not all of those were real delinquets. many were being handled for the first time for minor offenses in an effort to prevent more serious outbreaks. City Called Disgrace In 1953, the year Okl… more
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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