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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4421]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "If you want to see an expansive cross-section of humanity (with no one cross, however), just look at the Oklahoma State Fair from an angle. For example, there are few nations in this restless world where one could find such happy carefree children as are shown in the picture of the fair midway at top left."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5483]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is the way searchers sought bodies left in the wake of the Tornado at Pryor Monday. Under wreckage that once was the walls, floors and roofs of homes and business buildings they found a score of dead and injured. The search will not be complete until ever piece of wreckage in moved."
Date: April 27, 1942
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6240]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Three gliders are towed by a single plane at the marine corps base, Parris Island, S.C., where the corps is preparing to speed up its landing technique. The three twolines are plainly visible. Gliders, capable of carrying 10 to 24 marines, are effective because of their noisless approach and because valuable plane motors are not risked in these landings."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1659]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Showing no scars of war, this picture of the interior of Buckingham Palace of the British Royal family was made by Cecil Beaton, British photographer, during the visit there of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the wing are the king, left, Mrs. Roosevelt, the queen and the Princesses Margaret Rose and Elizabeth, the latter heir to the throne."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5546]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "They've got to tell their mother that Lester wont be home. J. E. Taylor worked all night as a first aid worker in the Pyror tragedy believing his 17-year-old brother, Lester, was injured slightly and under treatment in a Muskogee hospital. Tuesday morning searchers removed Lester's body from the debris. J. E., left, and his brother, Clifford, are shown weeping as they sat on a culvert a block and a half from fearing … more
Date: April 27, 1942
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5480]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "No building was left undamaged down this Main street of Pryor by the Tornado which struckit at 4:45p.m. Monday. When the storm passed, dead were in the street, injured were screaming for help. The sidewalks were piled high with broken bricks, merchandise and furnishings of business establishments. The the workers from the Chouteau powder plant moved in with their giant equipment. By morning much of the mess had been… more
Date: April 27, 1942
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5482]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The powerful equipment that Uncle Same is using to make a plant to produce death dealing powder in the war effort Monday night and Tuesday turned to errands of mercy as duPont workers helped Pryor dig its dead and injured from the wreakage left by Monday's tornado. Here a bulldozer clears a sidewalk."
Date: April 27, 1942
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10457]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In the lower photo, which covers more than three miles and shows a section of Fort Sill rimming the horizon, hundreds of trucks and thousands of men prepare to climb the sides of Mount Hines to observe the firing demonstration. Officer candidates and visitors jammed the hillside while gunners blasted away at fixed targets-and at objectives at random by visiting army officials."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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