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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7171]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the 2500 block South Goff avenue, after Friday night's tornado had vented its fury on a four-block Capitol Hill area. Houses, garages, motor cars, telephone poles, trees, all were swept away by the terrific force of the wind. Saturday, only this bleak picture met the eyes of spectators at the devasted area, as workmen began the task of digging through the debris and wreckage. (date?: Exactly 20 years ago … more
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10457]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In the lower photo, which covers more than three miles and shows a section of Fort Sill rimming the horizon, hundreds of trucks and thousands of men prepare to climb the sides of Mount Hines to observe the firing demonstration. Officer candidates and visitors jammed the hillside while gunners blasted away at fixed targets-and at objectives at random by visiting army officials."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7403]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was virtually an all-night vigil in the office of Robert S. Kerr as "Smiling Bob" and his familykept their ears to the telephone and their eyes on telegrams giving returns in the state-wide race for governor. Kerr, on the basis of slightly more than one-third of the state's precincts, held a lead over Gomer Smith, city attorney. Young Bill Kerr and his mother stayed by the oilman's side as returns rolled in."
Date: 1942
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3267]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At the cabinet room in the White House the Pacific war council of the United Nations held its first meeting Wednesday. Around the table are T. V. Soong, left, China; Walter Nash, New Zealand; Dr. H. V. Evatt, Australia; Viscount Halifax, Great Britain; President Roosevelt; Huime Wrong, Canada; Dr. Alexander Loudons, Netherlands, and Harry Hopkins, special assistant to the president on lease-lend act administration."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8552]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The photograph below shows the chapel of the Carmelitwe seminary for boys of highschool age, like Edward Diaz, at the altar. The room formely was the Marland studio."
Date: August 6, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1048]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Do the Oklahoma Aggies have a BIG center? Here he is, all seven feet of him. The lad is Bob Kurland of Jennings, Mo., and he actually measures seven feet, packing 206 pounds on his altitudinous frame. He's only a 17-year-old freshman, and Coach Henry Iba expects him to grow a couple of more inches and fill out 20 pounds by another season. kurland is a member of the tallest Aggie team in years which will open its season … more
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3271]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Members of the Pacific war council met Thursday in Washington for a momentous conference on the future course of the war. This picture was made outside the executive offices at the White House just before the session began. Seated are Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and President Roosevelt. Standing , left to Right: Dr. Elcon van Kieffens, foreign minister of The Netherlands; Sir Owen Dixon, Austrailia… more
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8550]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a building with a swimming pool, men in specific type of robes near the camera and four in the background walking the grounds, and more)". OHS note: This photograph is of the E.W. Marland Mansion in Ponca City, OK. E.W. Marland sold the mansion to the Discalced Carmelite Fathers in 1941. The men in the foreground of the photograph are Carmelite Friars . The Carmelite Fathers sold the mansion in 1948 to… more
Date: August 6, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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