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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7523]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "All city game rangers went on emergency duty Thursday in an effort to be kind to more than 100 of their feathered friends entombed in a prison of ice at Lake Overholser. These red-winged blackbirds became frozen Wednesday night when mist from the dam saturated their bodies and they fell to the ground. Ice formed over their bodies, leaving them helpless. The above pictures by A. Y. Owen, Times staff photographer, show… more
Date: January 4, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7503]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The ice field on the southwest side of the Lake Overholser dam proved the undoing of more than 100 red-winged blackbirds. The birds were trapped in the ice after they came in to feed and were not liberated until Thursday morning. Many died from exposure and some were killed by wild house cats."
Date: January 4, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7504]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It Happened in December, 1950, and the scene was photographed at Lake Overholser. Spray thrown ashore by a frigid wind froze into domes over grass-trapping more than 100 red-winged blackbirds, who had been feeding there. Rangers and water department employes chopped the forlorn birds loose, saving the lives of many of them."
Date: January 4, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0160]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Those gay ballons bobbing around the staid old Hales building at Main and Robinson aren't giddy left-overs from New Year eve. They're eviction notices - for the birds. And building manager Charles H. Clark happily reported Friday the startled starlings are taking the hint in droves. "We had tried everything else, and after the City National Bank did this with pretty good success awhile back, we decided to see how… more
Date: January 4, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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