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[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0037]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "With scout car siren wide open, Jack Mullenix at the wheel and J. C. Jordan on the shortwave radio in top photo, the help you've called against a burglar or armed robber is on the way."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0115]

Description: Photograph is of two men surveying the remains of a home that has been consumed with flames and burnt to the foundation. Black burnt rubble is all around the two men. An oven is the only recognizable item. Caption: "A gas range, standing among ashes, was about all that remained of the Sam Bidwell home Saturday morning after an explosion and flash fire claimed the lives of four children and injured the mother of one."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1003.0380]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New additions to the zoo's population were announced Sunday as two rare Marabou stork began looking around their new quarters."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Altus Dam Canal Outlets

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-902. Altus Dam, Canal Outlets. Middle high presure gate open 1.06 feet, discharging into stilling basin. Surface of lake is approximately 29 feet above the gate sill. Stilling pool is checked up part way to hold surface of pool at about gate sill elevation. Photo taken from foot walk above check."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: George, P. W.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Altus Dam Canal Outlets

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-903. Altus Dam, Canal Outlets. Close-up view of discharge from middle high pressure gate, when opened 1.06 feet. Gate dimensions are 5 feet by 5 feet. Approximately 29 feet of head on gate."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: George, P. W.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Altus Dam Canal Outlets

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-905. Altus Dam, Canal Outlets. General view of outlet works. Check in foreground, beyond which is stilling pool, and high pressure gates, with middle gate open 0.50 feet."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: George, P. W.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Union Pacific (UP) 4016

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 4016, 4-8-8-4, on mixed freight extra, climbing Sherman Hill near Granite Canyon, WY, 94 cars, 20mph.
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 5088 & 4019

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 5088, 2-10-2, and 4019, 4-8-8-4, west of Cheyenne, WY, on freight extra, 78 cars, 25 mph. (Note M.W. Swansick taking movies.)
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 5317 & 4015

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 5317, 2-10-2, and 4015, 4-8-8-4, on westbound mixed freight extra, leaving Cheyenne, WY, 75 cars, 20 mph. (I [had] asked the fireman on 5317 for a good smoke whenever he saw me photographing his train!)
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 5317 & 4015

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 5317, 2-10-2, and 4015, 4-8-8-4, on westbound mixed freight extra, going up Sherman Hill near Granite Canyon, WY, 75 cars, 15 mph.
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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