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[Photograph 2012.201.B0163B.0542]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "BEAUTIFICATION of an oil well in front of the Will Rogers Memorial building on NE 23 suffered temporarily Tuesday as workmen cleaned the pump."
Date: October 16, 1962
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1402.0354]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ted Wells, twice international snipe racing champion from Wichita, gets his boat trailer ready after winning the snipe division at Lake Hefner Sunday."
Date: July 16, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0381.0231]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Former pilot trainer Pat Malone operates the blade and Wing Bar in memory of chopper pilots who passed this way en route to Vietnam."
Date: October 16, 1983
Creator: Cook, J. Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8035]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What happens to a hard-working family when oil flows from the cotton fields of their farm a few days before Thanksgiving and brings surprise riches? That is the story of an Oklahoma couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Long, who bought a farm south of Elk City in 1907 and have struggled for a living there ever since. The family wirked and saved all through the hard, lean years. Crop failures and cyclones and dusty winds, and final… more
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6094]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "An old Kingfisher County oil well abandoned more than 40 years ago blasted to life with a fiery belch early Saturday, spewed mud and rocks for six hours, then died again. The sudden flame-belching burst like a comic book dragon arousing from a long slumber startled rural families from their beds at 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the area 10 miles southwest of Hennessey. Inferno Digs Crater The well, drilled in 1920 but nevver… more
Date: April 16, 1966
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1361.0061]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNER Wayne Wells shakes hands with a fan along the sidelines Saturday during halftime ceremonies at the University of Oklahoma-Utah State game in Norman. Wells, of OU, won top honors in wrestling during the games at Munich, Germany."
Date: September 16, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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