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[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0708]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Anne Corlett, perhaps the most widely known woman in Oklahoma real estate and mortgage loan circles, retired Friday after 29 yeas with Local Federal Savings & Local Association. She was treasurer and assistant secretary."
Date: August 3, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1169.0801]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "S. L. Shofner ran his title string to four in the Missori Valley Openn Junior Veterans tennis tournament Sunday, claiming the men's singles and doubles championsip trophy for the fourth straight time at Quail Creek."
Date: August 3, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1126.0398]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cityan Wanda Rhodes successfully defended her title in women's junior veteran singles, sailing past Jo Ann Clugston of Pittsburgh, Kan., 6-2, 6-3."
Date: August 3, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1203.0817]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No one seems to know when it began - the sudden upswing of interest in erecting a Christ of the Wichitas statue at the site of Holy City, but Mrs. E. M. Smith, resident hostess there, says "Like a miracle, it began to happen." The project failed to attract significant support when first mentioned in 1946, but now more than 20 years later, local school children and their teachers began a ground-roots fundraising campaign, an… more
Date: August 3, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9334]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Devastation in immediate vicinity of blasts is depicted by twisted railroad track and debris remaining of rail cars, above. Wrecked homes two blocks away are depicted above left, while force of explosion is illustrated above right by smashed boxcar, one of five destroyed in blast. (O-8-5-69) Blasted track and box car are shown after explosions."
Date: August 3, 1969
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9329]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "We were very, every fortunate and I thank the good Lord more people weren't killed," a Noel firemen who witnessed a disastrous explosion in this Oklahoma-border community said Sunday. Harold Mauck watched a train car blow up 200 yards from his fire truck at 4 a.m. Sunday. it was "a huge orange-red mushroom cloud of smoke, fire and flying debris," he said. The blast - the second and most powerful of two - leveled numerous… more
Date: August 3, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9331]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Devastation in immediate vicinity of blast is depicted at left where ground was leveled while force of explosion is illustrated at right by a smashed boxcar."
Date: August 3, 1969
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9330]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State, federal and military investigators sifted debris with railroad officials Monday in an effort to determine the cause of an explosion Sunday that killed two, injured scores and devastated this resort community. Meanwhile, estimates of the damage ranged as high as $5 million as many of the townspeople returned to their homes and businesses facing massive clean-up chores. Some businessmen estimated it will take 2 years… more
Date: August 3, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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