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[2012.201.B0408.0231]

Description: Photograph is of a few children and adult men and women waling on a glass floor with an exhibit underneath looking at the exhibit at their feet. Caption: "This walk's a dizzy one for visitors at air force exhibit at the State Fair of Oklahoma."
Date: September 28, 1966
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0316.0780]

Description: Photograph of a man posing with a can of Mother Penn Motor Oil. Caption: "John L. Dryer still has one of the original types of containers 'Mother Penn' motor oil was sold in. The trade mark bears the picture of his mother, Mrs. Minnie Dyer. The present product is marketed in a blue container as small as a quart size."
Date: April 4, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0222]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen spraying a hose on a single story brick grocery store. Flames are shooting out of the top of the building and out the front windows. The interior looks to be fully engulfed in flames. Caption: "flames billow from roof of Whittaker supermarket,El Reno"
Date: December 1, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0654]

Description: Photo was taken during the daytime. it is an aerial image of the fire and smoke from a forested area as the fire comes closer to a residential area. Caption: "(KO1)-OCTAVIA, OKLA., APRIL 5 - FIRE ENDANGERS SETTLEMENT - One of the numerous forest fires in southeastern Oklahoma edges dangerously near a settlement close to the McCurtain-Leflore County lines Monday."
Date: April 5, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0223

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering trailer parked on the side of the road with two men standing nearby. Caption: "Smoke drifts from this $4,000 trailer load of mattresses"
Date: September 9, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0655]

Description: Graphic created to accompany a story about fires in the Southwest east corner of Oklahoma. Caption: "Wind-whipped fires caused an estimated $500,000 damage in Hugo Saturday and raged out of control Saturday night in tinder-dry pine forests of McCurtain and Leflore Counties and into Arkansas."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Early Oklahoma Artists

Description: Article describes the lives and works of three white artists who came to Oklahoma in the nineteenth century: George Catlin, John Mix Stanley, and Heinrich Baldwin Mollhausen. O. B. Jacobson and Jeanne d'Ueel discuss how the artists recorded images of Indian Territory and why they did so.
Date: Summer 1953
Creator: Jacobson, O. B. & d'Ucel, Jeanne
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Place of Coming Together: The Historic Jacobson House

Description: Article documents the life of Oscar Jacobson, an artist and world art historian who ran the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma. He was the first art authority to recognize Native American painting as fine art and introduced it to the international market. The article also details the efforts of the Jacobson House Committee in the 1980s to restore and preserve the house as a Native American Arts Center.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Whitney, Carol
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Development of the Historic Preservation Movement in Oklahoma, 1966-2016

Description: Article continues the story of historic preservation in Oklahoma to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The authors discuss not only the programs administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office to fulfill the mandates set forth in the act, but also the work of American Indian tribes and preservation organizations.
Date: Autumn 2016
Creator: Heisch, Melvena Thurman & Roberson, Glen R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 1992

Description: Notes and Documents column including an introduction to the Oscar Jacobson house, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places due to the efforts of a historical committee, the Oklahoma Historical Society, and Dr. Arrell Morgan Gibson, who wrote the letter included.
Date: Spring 1992
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M. & Whitney, Carol
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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