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[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0088]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two old timers at the Will Rogers weather beau are Gerald Crawford, veteran meteorologist, and this triple recorder. Parts of the machine were used when the weather bureau was opened here in 1897"
Date: June 7, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1355.1049]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma will have a new tornado warning mechanism when this radar tower is completed atop the weather bureau hanger at Will Rogers field."
Date: February 7, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1355.1039]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Weathermen at the Will Rogers station will be able to get away from Oklahoma's changeable weather now while they trace a wind direction balloon through the skies for an hour each day. Gerald Crawford, head meteorologist at the airport station, inspects the new plastic housing erected around the rawinsonde-a radar device used to trace the balloon through the high altitude air currents."
Date: April 7, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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