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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2423]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo close-up with the civic center in the rear, city hal/courthouse in the middle, a city/fed building at front, with the YWCA on the left, and more.)"
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2399]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(location drawing of where the auditorium is with the streets Shartel and Dewey on its side, the jail on the left and the Plaza on the right.)"
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2398]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Civic Center Title Clouded-This map shows the 100 foot stip of property on the edge of the Civic Center tract affected by a United States Supreme court ruling handed down Monday. The high tribunal held that the Rock Island rialroad did not have a fee title to the 100-foot strip deeded to the city...The strip west of Walker is shown as the "Higgins Clain."...Completion of the program may necessilate condemnation… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2380]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photoof the municiple building from the lawn at a good distance with other buildings in the background such a the city's Empire State Building.)"
Date: April 11, 1940
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2394]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Architects choose Civic Center Builing sites-Building sites for the courthouse, city hall and municipal auditorium, proposed in the city's $3.300.300 Civic Center program were chosen Monday by architects charged with the completion of plans for the buildings and Donald Gordon, Civic center co-ordinator...There would be court between the courthouse and city hall and a plaza between the city hall and auditorium. The paln ado… more
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2406]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cool beauty on a hot summer evening in Oklahoma City. Visitors downtown find the jewel-like City Hall fountain and a backdrop of tall buildings an attractive sight."
Date: June 12, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2379]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Civic Center, located on the site of a railroad yard, was built with funds jointly provided by the Works Projects administration and a citywide bond issue."
Date: July 20, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2420]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of a multiple-story building's frame that is under construction. Backside handwriting: "Municipal auditorium.")"
Date: September 19, 1936
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2404]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Anyone who remembers when railroad tracks ran down this pretty park way in downtown Oklahoma City is getting to be an old timer around here. This view of Civic Center parkway and a portion of the city's skyline looks east from top of the county building at N Harvey. In foreground are the 45th Infantry Division memorial and portions of the center parkway mosaic paving."
Date: April 17, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2385]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New high-pressure water line are being laid by workmen to convert the Civic Center pool to a jet-type fountain. Lines supplyingthe original casacde were inadequate for the job after 23 years, park officials said. Crews began chipping away concrete preparatory to installing the new water lines. When completed, the fountain will spurt water from three jet rings. Cascade at end of pool also is being repaired."
Date: June 20, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2414]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Map drawing for the Civic Center Plan Proposal. Shown is mall behind the civic center to the proposed city hall with all the buildings and companies in them.)"
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2417]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of downtown showing city hall in the center with the civic center behind it, the YWCA in the foreground, other buildings on the left with company names, and more.)"
Date: September 13, 1937
Creator: Mumblow, Milt
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2421]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of a building that is fully erected and looks finished with a scaffholding going from ground to even above the the roof with a crane on the roof.)"
Date: September 13, 1936
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2392]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo showing downtown OKC down the main? Road with a large sign for the American Stamp and Novelty Co. and its glued backing seperated from it.)"
Date: March 11, 1946
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2395]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rezoning Planned-The City planning commission Friday is scheduled to conduct public hearing on proposed rezoning of approximately $20,000,000 worth of business property adjoining Civic Center. Property involved in the zoning proposal is shown in the picture inside the white line...The huge rezoning plan , involving the largest amount of business property ever considered in a single ordinance, was proposed by Bob Belisle, p… more
Date: February 8, 1939
Creator: Turner, Bennie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2384]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A BANG-UP Reception in Civic Center was for the birds Monday night when the starlings returned to Oklahoma City. Rangers for the park department blocked off the streets around the Municiple Auditorium and blasted away with shotguns on the theory that if the first scouts were killed or scared away the sky-darkening flocks would not follow. That's the theory of R. R. "Pat" Murphy, city park superintendent and it's the best … more
Date: October 6, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2415]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial view of downtown area with the "OG & E" building a bottom center, "Home State Life" building at top left, a church at middle left, a church a middle center, and more. Backside handwriting: "New Fed Bldg in Center."
Date: February 4, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2416]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "How it will look-Although city and county officials may face more red tape before the auditorium , city hall and courthouse are built on Civic Center park. L. P. Thompson, the Daily Oklahoman artist, erected the buildings from architects' drawing on the area in short time so that the public might judge how it is all going to look. The drawing shows vividly the relation of the proposed buildings to the surrounding business… more
Date: 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2387]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the Civic Center from across the street with OKC's Empire state Building behind to the right with the "Alexander Drug Co." building also on the front right.)"
Date: April 11, 1940
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2411]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Significant memorials have been placed in Oklahoma City's Civic Center. In foreground is the anchor from the USS Oklahoma, while in the background is a memorial to Oklahoma's 45th Division. Not visible in this photograph is the new '89er memorial."
Date: 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2418]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Like to see Oklahoma City's Civic Center look like this? Unfortunatley, an artist drew in all those palms and tropical birds. Whoops! Don't give in to temptation or those winter stories you heard. It's still much to early to plant an orange tree in the back yard. Oklahoma City isn't a tropical paradise yet..."Why, I remember when the thermometer went down to 20 below and stayed there three weeks," Grandpa says..… more
Date: March 19, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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