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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only min… more
Date: August 17, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0003]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nineteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Cox of Shawnee, left, made history Tuesday when she became the first young woman to be sworn into the WAVE at the Oklahoma City station."
Date: August 7, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0339]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Astronaut Gordon Cooper and his wife got the open-convertible treatment Saturday as they took part in a parade in Tecumseh."
Date: June 29, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.B0143.0331]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WELCOME COOPER flags such as these will be hung Wednesday in Shawnee in preparation for astronaut Gordon Cooper's homecoming this weekend"
Date: June 24, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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