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[Photograph 2012.201.B0272.0574]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WIND-WHIPPED DRAPERIES that seemed to shield guy wires and railings at Lawton's Lake Lawtonka from the cold Monday were really frigid stalactites of ice formed form dripping water."
Date: November 29, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0257.0546]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rusty Hertzler, 13, Lawton and his 6-year old brother, Jay, examine their turtle after it won the turtle race at Walters Fourth of July celebration Monday."
Date: July 5, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0672]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HOT CHILI smolders in the wreckage of a semi-truck after the rig missed a turn on a fog-shrouded multi lane bridge south on Ft. Sill on U.S. 277, slammed into a guard rail and plunged down an embankment early Tuesday. The wreck burst into flames, igniting much of the truck's cargo -- 45,000 pounds of El Paso chili. The driver, Don Riffel, of Moore, escaped."
Date: October 25, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0838]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CONSTRUCTION is about 25 % percent complete on the $1.7 million U. S. 277 bridge for northbound traffic crossing the Red River into Oklahoma."
Date: April 24, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0162]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Under construction at Cameron University at Lawton is the new music, art, speech and drama classrooms which are slated to open by fall semester."
Date: June 16, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0687]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bridge over Blue Beaver Creek between Cache and Faxon in Comanche County lies in ruin after surging waters triggered by 8.6 inch rains in the area Sunday sent the creek out of its banks."
Date: August 29, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0824]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Expected to be opened to interstate traffic between Texas and Oklahoma by October of this year, this $1.7 million bridge over the Red River on U. S. 277 will replace a single-lane crossing built in 1926."
Date: 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0837]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "RED RIVER BRIDGE is coming down on U. S. 277-281 to make way for a new two-lane bridge, built in 1926, has been considered a major obstacle to getting interstate highway designation for the H. E. Bailey Turnpike in southwest Oklahoma."
Date: December 2, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0314]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A BLOOD SPLATTERED refrigerator containing a 3 1/2-year-old Lawton girl and the decomposing body of her twin sister was found in this abandoned house south Lawton Saturday."
Date: 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0720]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "COUNTY BRIDGE about 10 miles southwest of Lawton lies in ruins Friday after it collapsed under the weight of a single-axle truck loaded with 350 bushels of Wheat."
Date: June 4, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0395.0364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Named as the new city manager of Lawton is Robert Metzinger, presently city manager of Joplin City, Mo., will begin work in his new post Jan. 3 at an annual salary of $30,000."
Date: November 24, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1378.0621]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tornadic-like winds that ripped through a southwest side trailer park in Lawton left this mobile home torn apart while others were left standing only a few feet away undamaged."
Date: May 31, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1426.0052]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Teen-ager members of the Youth Conservation Corps, are constructing a pedestrian boardwalk through Prairie Dog Town in the Sulphur Flat area of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in northwest Comanche County."
Date: July 21, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0139.0453]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PUTTING THE FINAL touches on one of over 20 decorated Christmas trees at the third annual Forest Fantasy held Sunday, sponsored by the Lawton-Ft. Sill Voluntary Action Center are VAC Director Mrs. Sally Cannon, left, and Forest Fantasy Chairwoman Mrs. Marian Coleman."
Date: December 3, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0493]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A massive crane lowers a white aluminum steeple onto the new First Baptist Church building in downtown Lawton. The 70-foot-tall steeple is part of a $4 million church building program nearing completion. The congregation's old church was destroyed in a 1973 fire."
Date: August 30, 1978
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0393]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton fire fighters cruise through town on their 1923 Stutz fire engine which took 500 off-duty hours to bring back to life."
Date: May 30, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0184]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The lesson of the extinct passenger pigeon must never be forgotten," said Ft. Sill biologist Gene Stout as a nearly five-acre wilderness area was recently dedicated to Martha."
Date: August 18, 1977
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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