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[Photograph 2012.201.B1280.0281]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Opening of the city's newest theater, the Redskin, at Southwest Twenty-ninth and South Western avenue, found its seating capacity of 1,000 inadequate to hold the crowds, R. Lewi Barton, manager, reports."
Date: August 10, 1941
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0239]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "I doubt if he will say much," Frank Cleckler, (left) manager of the United States Veterans Administration at Muskogee said of Andy Keaton, (right) one of the World War's great heroes, whose business for years has been the car of the grounds on the government reservation."
Date: January 10, 1941
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0464]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A closeup of the impassable bridge, scene of the bloody gunfights that ended the break from the prison. The single X marks the spot where a convict bullet put an end to the life of tab Ford, former deputy sheriff of Pittsburg and former prison guard and volunteer posseman. The double X's mark the spot where two convicts lying in ditch were killed by William E. Alexander, Pittsburg county deputy sheriff."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the exterior view of the east gate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester through which convicts marched Warden Jess Dunn Sunday in an effort to escape which ended in the death of the warden, two convicts and Tab Ford, former prison guard."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1299.0786]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A long trial ended Wednesday afternoon August 17 when 18-year-old Billie Grayson was killed and her nude body placed on a grave near Chandler. Charged with her murder is Courtney Douglass Orrell. Shown are Bob Turner, left, Oklahoma County Sheriff, Marvin Roberts, Lincoln County Sheriff, and E. G. Cooper, Oklahoma County Deputy."
Date: September 10, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0283.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Haggard, Pittsburg county sheriff, displays the razor which convicts held at the throat of Warden Jess Dunn as they passed through a penitentiary gate Sunday in a frustrated effort to escape."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1136]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The lower picture shows the wreckage of the derrick with stacked tubing, the weight of which is believed to have contributed to the collapse."
Date: March 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0294.0008]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "veteran of Oklahoma Golden Gloves boxing, will return to competition when the estate punchers oppose Kansas City's aces in Municipal auditorium January 5."
Date: December 10, 1941
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0104]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Nelson Newman, 510 Northwest 21st street, left, a newcomer to Oklahoma City, was feted around recently at a coffee given by Mrs. Rowe Cook"
Date: October 10, 1941
Creator: Turner, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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