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[Photograph 2012.201.B1314.0533]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Museum model of the first artillery piece used by the United states army has been completed at the Artillery and Guided Missle center, Fort Sill by Grove Shandy of the training aids model shop."
Date: June 2, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0525]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These Collie pups will not be at the Oklahoma city Allbreed Sunday because they are two days less than 6 months old, but it is fitting that they make their ring debut at the Lawton Fort Sill event on Tuesday."
Date: February 29, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0372]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bishop W. Angie Smith, OKC, Methodist bishop of the Oklahoma-New Mexico district, left, and Andy Wolverton, Lawton, turn a spade of dirt at Sunday afternoon groundbreaking ceremonies for the new $500,000 First Methodist Church in Lawton."
Date: May 3, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415.0142]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Services for J. Fred Ferrell Sr., Elgin, pioneer Hereford cattle rancher, will be at 10:30 AM. Monday in Centenary Methodist Church in Lawton, with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetary directed by Lawton Funeral Home."
Date: November 24, 1954
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0373.0265]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "MR. AND MRS. JIM L. LITTON (below) returned to the city recently after spending 1 1/2 years in Germany, where Mr. Litton served in the army near Munich."
Date: February 13, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0956.0011]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Treason is charged to Fort Sill Maj. Ambrose H. Nugent, 44, from Merrill, Wis. Nugent was charged with committing treasonable offenses while a prisoner of war in North Korea. He allegedly offered intelligence to the enemy. He has been stationed at Fort Sill since November, 1953."
Date: November 13, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0442]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Work continues steadily on the half million dollar McMahon Memorial Auditorium, now under construction on Lawton land north of Ferris. Planned for a seating capacity of 1,500, the building is being erected as a memorial to the late Eugene D. McMahon."
Date: February 17, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1129.0297]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Deputy Sheriff Arvil Robertson is shown checking in part of the 1,092 bottles of booze confiscated Saturday from a farm five miles east of Lawton."
Date: December 29, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415B.0036]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mickey Mantle, star New York Yankee outfielder, shaking hands with 1st Sgt. Walter McGinnis before leaving US Army Hospital at Fort Sill, Okla."
Date: October 28, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0303.0130]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flight 1-9-5-6" will take-off Tue. and Wed nights in Lawton's McMahon auditorium with approximately 3,000 howling spectators aboard."
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0605]

Description: Photograph is of a field fire viewed through a tree as the fire moved forward across the land. The photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Flames burst from burning weeds and grass in a field east of Lawton as the leasee of part of the Indian lands worked to clear the area."
Date: January 23, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0143]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jon. 7- Jack A. Batten, 26, Chicago, arrived here this week to assume his duties as assistant director of the Wichita Mountains Sunrise Easter Service"
Date: January 9, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0372]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beautiful McMahon Memorial auditorium, with a seating capacity of 1,500 persons, was presented to the city of Lawton at a cost of $300,000 by Mrs. E. P. McMahon, widow of a pioneer resident."
Date: November 23, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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