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[Photograph 2012.201.B0093.0301]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Undaunted by the fact that Oklahoma's winds toppled him from his 50-foot perch at Wedgewood Park last year, Dixie Blandy, world's champion flagpole sitter, returns to the site of his mishap next Thursday--July 5."
Date: 1956
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0093.0299]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City's flagpole sitter was seriously hurt Monday afternoon when he wqs dumped from his 50-foot high perch by a gust of wind during a thunderstorm."
Date: 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0093.0295]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "For 43 of his 68 years, Richard Blandy has been eating, sleeping, reading and making a living perched atop a steel pole."
Date: September 24, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0093.0306]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An Ohio man, still recovering from the fracture of four ribs and his skull will scale a 50-foot flagpole in Oklahoma City Friday night, promising to break his own aerial sitting record of 77 days. Richard "Dixie" Blandy, 53, Dayton, Ohio, comes to Oklahoma less than a month after he fell from his perch during a Chicago rainstorm."
Date: August 4, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0093.0307]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Richard "Dixie" Blandy, an ex-steeplejack who has been up in the air most of his life, took up residence atop a 50-foot flagpole at Wedgewood Park, NW 58 and May, Friday night."
Date: 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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