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[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0308]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Little Susan Mary Cocks, born two weeks ago at the Fort Sill station hospital, doesn't realize it now but she's probably going to give passport officials a headache in the years to come."
Date: September 8, 1950
Creator: Lucas, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10461]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Diagram shows relative positions of Fort Sill troops and artillery batteries during fatal June 22 field exercise. Court martial evidence has shown target data for the 4.2 mortar battary was reversed. Shells hit far target first, smashed into close target just as infantry platoon advanced upon it. Howitzer battery provided similar support for a platoon farther east. Mortar shells raked the infantrymen."
Date: 1957
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10459]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heavily shaded area shows the proposed addition to the Fort Sill range for guided missle ranges. The alarming rate at which the armed services are gobbling up our land is worrying congress. It had better worry the public, too. Today the services are in possession of 29 million acres of land-millions more than at the height of World war II. The land is equivalent to a 14-mile-wide strip reaching from New York to … more
Date: 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1339.0253]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chosen Wayne A. Vernon, secretary of the Sulphur chamber of commerce, succeeds Carl Held as executive-secretary of the state department of public safety."
Date: 1950
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0275]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Warden Jerome J. Waters (upper photo) was bound and held prisoner at knife point for 45 minutes at McAlester prison Wednesday by two lifers who made an unsuccessful attempt to escape."
Date: June 13, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0274]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Colonel Jerome Waters, new warden at Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester, looks down on the prisons yard shortly after taking over the job."
Date: June 15, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0272]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Varsity letter sweaters for outstanding rifle marksmanship were presented to members of the University of Oklahoma army ROTC rifle team at cadet corps review this week."
Date: November 9, 1955
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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