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[Photograph 2012.201.B0312B.0758]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Claude Cowen, construction superintendent, surveys broken windows and a door-part of the $500 damage caused in a series of vandalism raids last month on the Classen highschool baseball stadium under con-struction at NW 27 and May."
Date: November 23, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4843]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "ADC worker, Bill Lockeby admires a new dress being made by one of the members of his Mothers' sewing club, held in the Lowell school. Lockeby also has started an old age club for his clients and others along in years. There are about 100 people living in the community on old age assistance."
Date: January 1, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adams
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4841]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The children in the top picture like school - it's the center of their lives in the Shidler district, south of the North Canadian river. Shidler is struggling against big odds to make its children into good citizens. Her two mothers, officers of the P-TA come at recess to help the teachers with the games - mute evidence of the adults growing confidence in themselves and their community."
Date: January 9, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adams
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4844]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Many homes in Community Camp or Lowell have been rebuilt or painted in recent year, but many others are tiny box-like shacks made of car license plates, battery coxes discarded scrap lumber. Two people live in the white house at the far right, not as large as an automobile."
Date: January 11, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adams
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4842]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In the bottom picture Bonnie, age 12, lives with her widowed mother and three small sisters in this tent in the Shidler district. When she wants water, she carries it 75 yards in the bucket from the nearest spigot to her home."
Date: January 9, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adams
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4845]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Juvenile deliquency is on the wane in Oklahoma City. It hit an all-time peak in 1952 and its been declining ever since. Juvenile court records show that in 1952 a total of 623 Oklahoma county youngsters appeared in the court. Not all of those were real delinquets. many were being handled for the first time for minor offenses in an effort to prevent more serious outbreaks. City Called Disgrace In 1953, the year Okl… more
Date: 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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