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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The end! Tht's waht John McGuire of Shawnee, No. 1 conductor and oldest conductor of Rock Island's "Old Panhandle and Indian Territory Division, " said Thursday night as the last east bound Rock Island passenger train pulled out of the station at 300 SW 7."
Date: November 10, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Francis, Chickasaw Nation, 1894

Description: Article describes the establishment of the town of Francis, originally known as Newton, in Indian Territory, Oklahoma. Reita Sturdivant discusses the town's growth and development, the institution of railroads, the type of pioneers that settled there, and the content of newspapers being published in its early days.
Date: Summer 1967
Creator: Sturdivant, Reita
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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