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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1139]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BUT ONE IS HURT--If the boys who work on oil derricks weren't a nimble-footed and quick-thinking bunch, three of them might have been crushed to death Saturday afternoon in the twisted skeleton of steel pictured above. It was an oil derrick with the capitol in the background a few minutes before the photograph was made. Three rig-builders were remodeling the structure when suddenly the groan of strained joints… more
Date: September 18, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0039]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "BECAUSE LAWYERS often use Biblical phrases to emphasize legal points, a Bible presented to the county aw library in May, 1941, by Leslie Conner was thumbed to threads."
Date: January 18, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0140.0090]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "But the oil industry battle to keep drilling mud's and production wastes - including saltwater produced with oil and gas - off the EPA hazardous materials list may have to be waged again, Jim Collins of ARCO Oil and Gas Co. said Tuesday."
Date: September 18, 1990
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0733]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Thousand Mourn the death of Erle P. Halliburton at Duncan Thursday when memorial services were held for the president of the nationally-famous oil well cementing company."
Date: October 18, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260B.0607]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Ardore oil man) Harold H. Holden prepares to pay $21,280 in fees at the Oklahoma County court clerk's office Monday after pleading guilty to 16 misdemeanor counts of violating state campaign laws."
Date: October 18, 1993
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0262.0165]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two of the nation's best-known sports car racers, Jack Hinkle of Wichita, left, and Ed Walsh of St. Louis, will pilot fast cars here Saturday and Sunday to try and win the biggest trophies as racers compete on a two-mile course at the fairgrounds for benefit of the Oklahoma City Council for mentally retarded children."
Date: December 18, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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