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[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0277]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Memory Tree marker unveiled in Civic Center during the Louisiana Purchase anniversary observance is admired, above by Gaytra Harris, 6 Lytle drive."
Date: October 30, 1953
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0307]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma City's floral welcome to the Army and Navy Legion of Valor draws admiring glances from Martha Hall 3847 NW 19th, left, and Evelyn Warram, 705 NE 14th."
Date: August 12, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0268]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LIFTED TO ITS PERMANENT ROOST on the 45th infantry division memorial on Couch Drive at N Harvey is this huge Thunderbird, taken from culture of the peoples native to the southwestern area represented by the division at the time the insigne was selected."
Date: August 3, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0308]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NO UNDERGROUND WATER was discovered Tuesday afternoon, but convention delegates got pretty well drenched from rain as they viewed exhibits set up in front of the Municipal auditorium for the National Water Well association convention."
Date: November 5, 1957
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0267]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Breaking ground for the 45th Division memorial to be built at Thunderbird drive and Harvey were three of the division's Congressional Medal of Honor winners, Jack Montgomery, left, Maj. Jack Treadwell, and Maj. Ernest Childers, right."
Date: November 1, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0264]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Next to last phase on construction of the Thunderbird memorial on Couch drive at Harvey was started Tuesday as workmen put native granite facing on the concrete shell."
Date: 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0266]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Adeline Curry 416 SW 45th, and Vivian Farve, 1716 NW 15th, hold drawing of 45th division monument for which the Oklahoma Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs will raise funds."
Date: April 19, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0262]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TO BE ERECTED at Civic Center on Couch drive, possibly Monday, this huge Thunderbird insignia honoring Oklahoma's 45th Infantry division, here being sized up by secretary Margaret Watson, weights about one ton and will rest atop a 40-foot granite and marble column."
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0270]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "MAKING THE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS for the Thunderbird memorial here Saturday was former Maj. Gen. Robert T. Fredericks, who commanded the 45th division from late 1944 until war's end and victory in Germany."
Date: October 30, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0394.0489]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Daughters of American Revolution recently dedicated a memorial marker at the site of the original Ponca City watering hole. State Sen. Roy Grantham, Ponca City, left, accepted the memorial for the state. Mrs. Joe Davies, regent of the DAR, shown with Mr. Davies holding the umbrella, presented the marker. The marker was designed by Mrs. Elaine Mertz Naber."
Date: September 19, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0404.0456]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. H. E. Hubbard, left, and Mrs. Francis Gooden, members of the Garden Club council at Kingfisher, mark out planting plans around the new granite memorial honoring service personnel of all wars from Kingfisher county."
Date: August 4, 1950
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0404.0457]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "National guardsmen of Hollis stood as a guard of honor to the more than 50 Gold Star mothers attending the dedication Tuesday of a memorial to Harmon county's war dead."
Date: May 30, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 1955

Description: Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 1955. It includes a letter about an overland journey from Jefferson City to Fort Gibson in 1858, a document about the memory for Mary Greenleaf, a poem by John Walter Sams about "The Ghost of Wapanucka," and a resolution in memory of Oklahoma poet Lynn Riggs.
Date: Spring 1955
Creator: Aligator; Shirk, George H. & Sams, John Walter
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Robert Lee Williams Memorial Dedication

Description: Article discusses the dedication event of the Robert Lee Williams memorial monument by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Charles Evans relates the ways in which the OHS paid tribute to the Constitutional Convention member, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, judge, and benefactor through these ceremonies.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Evans, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Robert Lee Williams as I Knew Him

Description: Article provides a transcript of the address given by Baxtor Taylor at the dedication of the monument to Robert L. Williams. Taylor provides his personal perspective on the life of the judge and discusses his own experience as a newspaper editor in Atoka reporting on the Constitutional Convention Williams attended.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Taylor, Baxter
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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