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[Photograph 2012.201.B0926.0219]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Special awards for the first annual Graphic Arts Day to be held at Oklahoma State Tech, Okmulgee, went to Rep. J. C. Nance, Purcell publisher, for his service to the printing industry and the school and to eight highschool students who won scholarships to attend the printing school at Oklahoma State Tech. Nance, left, holds his award as printing students Bill McCauley, Okmulgee, and Bill Ferguson, Shawnee, accept scholarship… more
Date: May 5, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0926.0217]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Veterans of the sixteenth legislative session - which made flaming headlines 16 years ago - gathered for their traditional reunion luncheon at the capitol Friday. Only five members of the 16th session are still in the legislature. Among those attending were James C. Nance, Purcell, speaker."
Date: June 5, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0255]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "About that time all the battlewagons opened up, and we knew D-Day was on," thus Sgt. Allen Jones of Purcell recalled the grim, grey morning off the bitter coast of Normandy in France, when 20 years ago he and thousands of American, French, British and other allied troops went in on the first wave of the amphibious assault that signaled the beginning of the end of Hitler's Third Reich."
Date: June 5, 1964
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0017]

Description: Caption: "Cars and trucks were a lot smaller in 1920 when the Packsaddle Bridge was built on U.S. 283 over the South Canadian River north of Cheyenne." Truck driving down a road towards a bridge.
Date: October 5, 1978
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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