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[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0333]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A prison work camp at Pittsburg county's Boling Hollow dam site was being dismantled Monday, and echoes of violence erupting there Saturday reverberated from the state capitol to the McAlester courthouse."
Date: October 20, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0551]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Glen Taylor, left, Sharon Gotcher and former Gov. George Nigh listen to a leadership pep talk.."
Date: November 20, 1987
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0414.0184]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Citrus fruits growing in McAlester? That's right says Cecil Ferguson who claims to have some magical "green thumb " when it comes to growing lemons and pineapples in his back yard."
Date: October 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0752]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TUCK COPE , FORMER PRISON GUARD .."
Date: May 20, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0125]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "will speak at the annual state convention"
Date: March 20, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0178]

Description: Photograph is of two gasoline pumps with a destroyed building behind them. Around the remains are bushes and trees. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "McAlester - Outbreak of violence in a convict camp in the Weathers community will mean "immediate , permanent" abandonment of the trusty work site there, McAlester penitentiary warden H. C. McLeod indicated Monday."
Date: October 20, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0222]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The state board of education Friday selected a McAlester businessman to head the free textbook department and heard another department employe deny he acted as a salesman for a Chicago book company while on the state pay roll."
Date: November 20, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0360]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Robert J. Ellison, 2700 NW 27, has been named Bell manager in McAlester."
Date: May 20, 1962
Creator: Griffin, Ramon
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1225.0127]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William D. Sager of McAlester dislays a nine-point, 110-pound hog dressed deer which he east of Savanna."
Date: November 20, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0075]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert A. Layden, Dist. Judge, McAlester"
Date: January 20, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0400.0439]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 20, 1929
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0400.0429]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 20, 1929
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0950.0167]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Waiting for his Oklahoma Bar Association hearing on disbarment charges to open State Sen. Kirksey Nix and his defense counsel."
Date: April 20, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0927]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shirley Bland, Dollie Lester and David Lester, all of Prague, react to gospel songs at Seminole."
Date: August 20, 1994
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0433]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The current death row at Oklahoma State penitentiary displays a traditional prison housing plan, with cell doors composed of bars and cells facing one another across a broader corridor."
Date: February 20, 1991
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0292]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The broncs were at their bucking best for the state penitentiary rodeo at McAlester Saturday,but some of the prison's convict cowboys,like this one,bucked and twisted and turned and stayed right with them-well,for a little while anyway."
Date: September 20, 1941
Creator: Turner, John H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0445]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Earth berms surrounding the new maximum security housing unit essentially make the structure an underground building. The tower over the front entrance of the building can be seen in the upper right of the picture."
Date: February 20, 1991
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0446]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is an architect's drawing of the $10 million, 200 cell maximum security housing unit at Oklahoma Penitentiary in McAlester. The wall in the upper right of the photo is the north wall of prison rodeo grounds."
Date: February 20, 1991
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0448]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A beam of sunshine illuminates on of the four quads in the new maximum security housing unit. The horizontal bars improve sight lines for correctional officers, who rarely will have contact with prisoners."
Date: February 20, 1991
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1201.0121]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Roger dale Stafford, a well known death Row inmate who got there by killing nine persons during a 1978 crime spree, has married, authorities and his new wife confirmed Wednesday."
Date: April 20, 1984
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0407]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 20, 1940
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0928]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vicki and Frank Arnold and Tiffany Stone put feelings into song at a gosgel sing in Seminole."
Date: August 20, 1994
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1024.0066]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Aging convict Orville J. Pitters is escourted to court Thursday by Oklahoma County Deputy Carey Canady."
Date: September 20, 1984
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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