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[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0354]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There may be another world out there in space and Gordon Cooper, 32, may become the first earthling to see it, but Monday he was just a boy who came back home to greet family and friends."
Date: April 19, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0293]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Leroy G. Cooper, the man most likely to be the first Oklahoman in space, says he's looking forward to the experience."
Date: December 29, 1961
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1092]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Charred wreckage of Preston Keel's car, after the flames were extinguished, reveals the heat generated by the helicopter which crashed beside the vehicle, killing the helicopter pilot. Shawnee--An army reserve pilot was killed when his helicopter crashed on U. S. 270 east of Shawnee late Sunday. The plummeting ship barely missed a car carrying three Pottawatomie County residents and set the vehicle afire. Kille… more
Date: May 31, 1964
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0524]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shawnee slaying suspect John Beal Collins, 19, has admitted the fatal beating of hotel bellhop Harvie Leroy Wells, Shawnee officers said Saturday."
Date: August 20, 1960
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1231.0173]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bob Schley of Tecumseh, president of the Pottawomie Historical society, points out the marker near Dr. Brewster Higley, s final resting place."
Date: July 17, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0127]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the old Federal National Bank building, Main and Union, Shawnee, which is being razed with two adjacent buildings to make space for the new J. C. Penney store."
Date: April 1, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0126]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Shawnee Roundup Club's first real "home" will be this concrete block building going upon the club's area at the Pottawatomie Co. Fairgrounds in Shawnee."
Date: April 4, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1124.0507]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Newest and oldest members of six generations meet as Mrs. Drucilla Reneau observes her 104th birthday Wednesday in Shawnee."
Date: December 1, 1965
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0191]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is souhern Shawnee access oue which, when bypass is finished to east of Tecumseh, will permit travel onto and off the bypass into the souh end of this town."
Date: April 6, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1205.0761]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New building will rise on the campus of St. Gregory's college in Shawnee. This architects drawing shows what a new $400,000 residence hall is to look like when it is completed."
Date: September 30, 1958
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1205.0758]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This view of St. Gregory's new $50,000 concrete approach road was made from the fourth floor of the five storied administration building."
Date: April 15, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0284.0348]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BANK ROBBERY LOOT set by the FBI at $16,926 was recovered Thursday form this rented trailer parked in front of a Shawnee home."
Date: July 28, 1966
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0166]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Set to sing this famous song during the Shawnee Lions Club "Uproars of 1960, " Thursday and Friday at 8 p. m. in the Shawnee High School auditorium, is Ted Harris, right, Oklahoma Baptist University senior major from Shawnee."
Date: 1960
Creator: Coffey, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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