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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3156]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Urban renewal has given dowtown Tulsa a facelift. Predominant on the Tulsa skyline are the Civic Center (1), National Bank of Tulsa (2), First National Bank (3), Fourth National Bank (4) and Cities Service Building (5). This aerial photograph of downtown Tulsa was taken by Staff Photographer Al McLaughlin from over the Arkansas River looking toward the northeast."
Date: 1973
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1335.0191]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A "conservative estmate" is that the city has some 5,000 houes and business building which have been left to rot by their former occupants and local or absentee owners."
Date: February 9, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1335.0183]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "First urban renewal project to start in Oklahoma is being explained here by Billie Letts in Tulsa's urban renewal office. The map below, with its black spots, shows homesto be eliminated and the one above the project when completed."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1335.0185]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Urban renewal takes plenty of teamwork, Tulsa is finding, among property owners in areas like the one above. HERE THE BEST HOUES ARE BEING KEPT, BETTER ONES REPAIRED, AND OLDER ONES REMOVED."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1335.0184]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Good homes can be kept, poor ones repaired, and junk removed under urban renewal, as in this Tulsa area. TULSA - The worst blighted areas of Tulsa will be the last to get urban renewal under this city's present policies."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1335.0192]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Residents of urban renewal projects on Oklahoma City's east side complain they've been forgotten as urban renewal progresses downtown. Some say abandoned building like this one, near NE 4 and Kelly, blight areas where some houses have been allowed to remain and other new ones are being built."
Date: November 15, 1972
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1299.0378]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Work will begin Monday on an ambitious pedestrian walkway system to tie in the new Williams Center under construction, the Tulsa Civic Center and a renewed downtown retail shopping area. It will be Tulsa's "surface version" of Oklahoma City's underground Metro Concourse."
Date: September 26, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1335.0187]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THIS MODEL - the town, not the girl - will be among those on display during the second annual National Community Development Seminar beginning here Sunday. Sue Savage, 416 NW 29, got an advance look at the model of a redeveloped Tulsa because she was on hand Saturday while the exhibits were being moved in and set up in the Zebra Room of the Municipal Auditorium."
Date: July 16, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0149]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Picturesque old homes on Avenue A in Lawton on the city's original townsite were once known as Banker's Row, where the elite lived."
Date: February 5, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0153]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pioneers gathering today for celebration of Lawton's anniversary found this landmark, the old city hall, being demolished to make way for a downtown shopping mall as part of modern day Urban Renewal work."
Date: July 31, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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