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[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TELLING ON THE HOME FOLKS - Bob Burns, bock on the Kraft Music Hall program after a coast-to-coast vacation, has made his home folks back in Van Buren, Arkansas, famous between those some coasts. His homely philosophy and his bazooka are heard along with Bing Crosby and guests over the NBC-Red Network Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m., EST.."
Date: June 15, 1938
Creator: NBC News
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0246]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BURNS KEPT BUSY READING FAN MAIL - The sage of Van Buren, Ark., the bazooka playing Bob Burns, seen above at his dining room table, is kept busy reading fan mail because he likes to attend to it himself, and if anyone happens to think the days of fan mail are over he has only to look at the sacks of it received daily by the Arkansas wit."
Date: November 17, 1939
Creator: NBC News
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0251]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUST A PIPE DREAM - Bob Burns, the sage of Van Buren, Arkansas, takes the edge off of radio's intensive activity with a short nap in his specially-built "lounger's model" done up in white leather. Burns, funny enough to warrant the front page of his home town paper, is heard with Bing Crosby on the Kraft Music Hall every Thursday at 10:00 p.m., E.D.S.T., over the NBC-Red Network."
Date: May 18, 1936
Creator: NBC News
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0253]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BOB BURNS INVADES LONDON SOCIETY - Bob Burns plays a Missouri mule man who has to invade London society to sell his animals to British Army officers in Paramount's "I'm From Missouri." Bob is shown here as he appears on his Missouri farm."
Date: March 24, 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0493]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THIS WAS THE SCENE nearly 30 years ago when national guardsmen dispatched by Gov. William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray blocked use of the Red River toll bridge between Durant and Denison."
Date: July 27, 1931
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0500]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "W. W. Sterling, adjutant general of the sovereign state of Texas (white pants and rifle) was on guard personally Friday to be sure that no bold Oklahoma motorist jumped his barricade on the Texas side of the Denison- Durant free bridge."
Date: 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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