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[Photograph 2012.201.B0961.0493]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A new face on Classen boulevard will be provided by the five-story addition to the Cameron building, 2917 Classen, pictured at right in this artist's sketch."
Date: 1958
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8614]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "High In The Air, workmen are setting the steel work for an addition to the weather signal atop the Liberty National Bank building. Bank officials said the entire illumonated weather signal will be raised 10 feet and a five-foot extension will be added on top so that it can be seen from a greater distance. Reason for raising the signal, they said, is to give it a greater visual seperation from the lighted letters below it." more
Date: June 23, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8743]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flying Saucers Over Oklahoma City? They didn't land but it looks like a whole formation of those "unidentified flying objects" people were seeingso many of sevceral years ago, doesn't it? Daily Oklahoman photographer John Gumm caught this picture one evening just at dusk while gazing northeast past Southwestern Bell Telephone building at NW 3 and Broadway. Here's how it happened; Gumm was on an assignment, 13 stories up,… more
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8592]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Going Up, in one solid cement slab, is the roof for the new Hartwell Jewelry story at Main and Harvey. The floors will be poured, and lifted, in the same way in a new type of building technique rarley used here. It was a spectacular sight for the sidewalk mechanics Wednesday."
Date: November 26, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8740]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Take a warm afternoon (?) a construction job and stir in an American's natural interest in things mechanical and you come up with an excellent way to loaf and relax. That's the formula persons usein the vicinity of NW 6 and Robinson where the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is constructing a nine-story $3,500,000 building. Sidewalk superintendents are plentiful. Most persons come rushing down the street headed on an erra… more
Date: April 16, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0961.0728]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Painters pretty up the council chamber, ceiling at city hall Thursday with a coat of silverwhite paint, guaranteed to make things a little brighter."
Date: November 7, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8599]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of workmen on the ground hoisting equipment up to other workmen at an open window, Coca-Cola sign at top right, removeable letters sign at bottom right, and more)"
Date: 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8588]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Engineer's Nightmare took place at Bank of Mid-America Wedmesday night as workmen shoe-horned this huge, 1959 Buick out of the lobby where it had been on display. The 24-hour lobby job involved hoisting it down sideways on a rollered frame, edging it through a gap left by door removal, easing the car upright, and rolling it back to Patterson-McCarty Co."
Date: October 8, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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