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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8498]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An over-all view of the vast grounds at the state training school for white boys at Stringtown. The state property cover 9,000 acres, including a 90-acre lake. If sufficient money is appropiated by the next legislature, the Stringtown school can be converted into a physically attractive training institution.")"
Date: 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8499]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The two-story administration building at the state training school for white boys at Stringtown. Both it and the two-story barrack building where the boys sleep will need considerable altering before they are fit for use. When training school officials took over the old sub-prison a month ago, the buildings and grounds were covered with debris and filth."
Date: 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8500]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The boy in this picture is peering from one of the barred detention cells of the state's training school for white boys at Stringtown. Severe disciplanry methods, now outmoded in many states, are still commonplace in Oklahoma. What these measures accomplish is revealed in figures which list 80 percent of the inmates of Granite Oklahoma does its delinquent, dependent and neglected children makes a depressing story; but it … more
Date: 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8502]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the inmates at the state training school for white boys at Stringtown gazes longinly at the big lake in the instituion grounds. Due to impurities in the water, boys aren permitted to go swimming. Although it covers a large area, the strington school lacks even the most rudimentary recreational facilites for active boys whore need some outlet for physical exhurberance"
Date: 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8501]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The top picture shows some of the principal buildings at stringtown, in Atoka county, to be occupied by wqards of the State Training School for White Boys next week when they are moved from Helena. At left and in the center are two-story barracks buildings, and at right the two-story administration building."
Date: August 15, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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