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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4131]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chatting is Arthur Davenport, right, with deputy Richard Mack, as his mother prepares to kiss him goodbye. The 34-year-old man went willingly with officers, but talked affectionately to his parents also. From the back seat of the sheriff's car he called: "Get in, Mom. They'll show you around." Reports of a man "hollering" led deputy sheriffs to the scene Saturday."
Date: June 20, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4128]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bars over the left and toward fron of truck outline the door to Arthur's cell. He had a bed there. His parents slept and lived in the rest of the remodeled trailer. Mr. and Mrs. Otto D. Davenport said they decided ten years ago they would have to provide detention quarters for their son when they found he had found he had been mistreated and beaten at Central State hospital , Norman."
Date: June 20, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4130]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A naked, 34-year-old man was removed from a homemade mental detention cell in a truck bed Saturday by sheriff's deputies. The man, Arthur Ferdinand Davenport, had been kept locked up or in chains for nearly 10 years by his parents after they had removed him from Central State hospital at Norman. "He is getting better treatment here than he ever got at Norman," his mother, Mrs. Otto D. Davenport, a registered nurse, in… more
Date: June 20, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4129]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The home of Arthur Davenport and his parents for approximately 10 years is shown here. The truck was fitted as a mental detention ward and house trailer at Ardmore, later moved to Oklahoma City. Mrs. Davenport said it cost $5,000 for remodeling. The parents said they were forced to keep Arthur secure so he wouldn't bother other people."
Date: June 20, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4124]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two guys in their underwear with two guys in front of them, one guy in a suit and one guy that looks to be a policeman.)"
Date: June 20, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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