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[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0510]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thirty years ago today, Will Rogers and Wiley Post (pictured) died in a crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. The world did not learn the news until the next day, but the crash occurred at 8:18 p.m. on August 15, 1935. An Eskimo, Clair Oakpeha, saw the fatal plunge, and walked and ran 15 miles to report what he had seen. (Original date of photo unknown, first publishing in 1965, then again in 1993)"
Date: 1993
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0521]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Famous Oklahoma pilot Wiley Post at 6 years of age, along with his sister, Mary Post, now Mrs. G. A. Junell, Dallas, Texas. (Copy of original photo, date unknown)"
Date: June 25, 1931
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0517]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wiley Post in his special "oxygen helmet" for high altitude flight into the stratosphere. Expectations for the flight are to shatter the altitude record for a regularly manned flight, over 50,000 feet, in his plane Winnie Mae."
Date: August 30, 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0524]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Decked out in the world's first spacesuit, pioneer aviator Wiley Post took off from Bartlesville in his famed Winnie Mae in 1930 to establish a new world high altitude record of 55,000 feet. This photo is contained in a historical volume entitled, "Bartlesville: Remembrances of Times Past, Reflections of Today."
Date: 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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