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[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0567]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With gilded shovels just like Gov. Turner's, the members of the Oklahoma Turnpike authority dug in Wednesday to move the first dirt on the 88-mile super-highway that will connect Oklahoma City and Tulsa in two years if construction goes according to plan."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0419.0481]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Three elves directly from Santa Claus land reveled in mountains of candy and fruit at Central fire station Wednesday where they directed firemen in the job of packing the sacks to be handed to each child attending the mayor's Christmas party at Municipal auditorium Saturday."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0964.0413]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Foundations are rising now for the new addition to the Apco tower, which will become the Liberty National Bank building, when that institution moves about September 1, Frank Sewell, president, said Tuesday."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0232]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy J. Turner, shown here with the gilded shovel with which he turned the first spadeful of earth on the turnpike, was the official driving force which made the great highway project possible."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0576]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The woman, Bertha Mae Ada Wootten, 47, admitted the shooting to Roy Nicholson and John Selken, deputy sheriffs. (Peppered her husband, Charles Henry Erva Wootten, 57, with.410 shot at climax of day long argument) ."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0577]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Officers help Charles Henry Erva Wootten, 57, into the courthouse a short time after he was shot and wounded. Wootten told deputy sheriffs his wife fired the shot but said flatly he did not want to "prosecute the little woman."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1422.0320]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Interesting lines are provided for the new central YMCA building by a row of concrete louvers extending the length of the building's south side facing on NW 5."
Date: December 20, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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