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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1064]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH IN SNOW came to a Magazine, Ark., man, Joesph Frank Hughes, 39, when this pickup he was driving skidded into the path of a Greyhound bus Friday night on ice-coated U. S. 69 south of McAlester. the motor was ripped from its mounts by the collision. The bus, driven by James Carl McConnell, Tulsa, carried no passengers."
Date: January 23, 1966
Creator: Southard, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0194]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUMBLED WRECKAGE of 21 freight cars, part of a 135 car Rock Island train, littered the tracks near Haywood in Pittsburg County after they derailed Wednesday."
Date: September 10, 1964
Creator: Oklahoma
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0359]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PAPERWORK in the 1962 Symphony Orchestra campaign got under way Monday with opening of campaign headquarters in the Skirvin Tower Hotel."
Date: January 8, 1962
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0148.0159]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A 79-year-old Oklahoma City man with more than 100 arrests on his record, including one for horse theft in 1903, was denied clemency Monday by the pardon and parole board."
Date: 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0131]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shelby Leon Doggett, condemned slayer of Jimmy L. Lanman, Lawton golf professional, will be moves Monday morning to a small cell near the electric chair to await execution at 10 p. m. Monday."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0118]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "AN INVITING TARGET for hunters, this wooden deer braces for a test on the 1,400-acre farm of Dr. Walter Johnson northeast of McAlester."
Date: November 25, 1964
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0544]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Breaking ground for construction on two new lodges on Lake Eufaula was in two ceremonies Sunday at Canadian and Checotah. The event attracted state leaders in the $9.5 million project as the first dirt was turned at this scene at Canadian School. Sen. Robert S. Kerr was a speaker, and shovel wielders included Sen. Mike Monroney, Gov. Edmondson, Congressman Carl Albert, and others."
Date: October 29, 1962
Creator: Southard, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A plea for mercy by condemned slayer Shelby Leon Doggett was denied here Tuesday after he talked two hours with the state pardon and parole board."
Date: May 22, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0476]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Millions of yards of dirt are being moved by thousands of men on hundreds of machines to construct the state's fourth toll road."
Date: January 22, 1965
Creator: State Staff Photos
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0469]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eastern Turnpike construction pushes ahead with most bridgework completed and almost ten miles of paving laid on the 41-mile section A from Henryetta to McAlester."
Date: June 9, 1965
Creator: Granger, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0237]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Pittsburg County grand jury investigating conditions in the state prison at McAlester recommended the ouster of Clint Gladden deputy warden since early 1955."
Date: March 14, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0235.0611]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two McAlester area clergymen find parish duties take up much of their time, bur they still serve-- without pay-- as chaplains at the naval ammunition depot south of here."
Date: June 11, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0601]

Description: Photograph shows flames consuming the roof of an aluminum rounded roof building. Smoke and flames are spilling out of the top of the building from all doorways, edges and windows. A fire truck is in the foreground of the photograph. No person is present in the image. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Fireman try in vain to curb McAlester surplus store blaze that Thursday caused extensive damage."
Date: January 26, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0439]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A. L. Dutton, 40, native of McAlester with wide experience in the industrial field, has taken over as superintendent of industries at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary here, according to Robert R. Raines, warden."
Date: April 5, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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