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[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An estimated 25,000 state Catholics converged on the state fairgrounds here Sunday afternoon for elaborate ceremonies celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the church's Oklahoma diocese."
Date: October 9, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0330]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BEAUX ARTS BALL DATE is not until November 6, but chairman are busy with plans for the affair which will be at the Oklahoma City Country club."
Date: September 9, 1959
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0004]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "City manager Sheldon Stirling carried out his 6-months-old plan to fire City Clerk Earle M. Simon Wednesday, and chose Orvin Crist, present city treasurer, to take over the clerk's job, effective January 1."
Date: December 9, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0449]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the act that has everyone talking in the circuit of the Royal American Shows, which will be on the midway this year at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: September 9, 1953
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0137]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "That, in the colorful language of the nation's first "Ike man," an Oklahoman, is how General Dwight D. Eisenhower swept the nation Tuesday."
Date: January 9, 1952
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0164]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THEY'RE READY FOR THE SHOW: Mrs. F. E. Fitzgerald, 821 NW 90, has this young Boxer ready for the Boomer Boxer club's match on Aug. 22."
Date: August 9, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0296]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "of the contested seats in the house of representatives are Lewis Watson, Ada, left, and Martin Clark, Ada, right, shown Wednesday with Rep. Ton Stevens if Shawnee, chairman of the committee on elections and privileges."
Date: January 9, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0560]

Description: Photograph of a Shawnee Milling Company building being sprayed by a fire hose, while a crowd of men looks on. Photograph taken during daylight. Caption: "Firemen battle blaze in Shawnee."
Date: October 9, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0025]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SAVED FROM SERIOUS INJURY by a safety belt, Ralph Michael Simpson, 21, of 4220 S Harvey, crawled from this overturned automobile Monday with minor cuts. Police accident investigators C.D. Posey and J.M. Watson said when they arrived at the scene of a 2-car collision at NW 6 and Dewey they found Simpson dangling, held in his seat by the safety belt. His car was struck broadside by an automobile driven by Frankie… more
Date: September 9, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0582]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This large crater and one smaller one show the force with which a jet fighter plane crashed Monday afternoon five miles southwest of Lindsay, narrowly missing a farm home."
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: Rhaodes, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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