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[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0255]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Loren Brown, president of the Northern Oklahoma Junior college, Tonkawa, will be the speaker at the fifty-ninth annual summer commencement exercises of Central State collge, Edmond, at 9 a.m. Thursday at Mitchell hall. Dr. Brown will speak on the subject, "Government for Service."
Date: 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Forty Feet Under: Kaw City and the Kaw Project on the Arkansas River, 1957-1976

Description: Article describing the process of the construction of the Kaw Dam and Reservoir. From the mid-1950s the inhabitants of Kaw City, founded in 1902 in Kay County, anticipated the construction of Kaw Dam and Reservoir on the Arkansas River. As the bureaucratic process dragged on for decades, the project divided the community. Ultimately, the residents rebuilt on a new site, and by 1977 "Old" Kaw City lay forty feet under Kaw Lake.
Date: Winter 2006
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0940.0285]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The old Central building at Northern Oklahoma Junior college, Tonkawa, is being remodeled with funds from the state bond issue."
Date: August 2, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1062.0392]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Shy Little Squaw" could well be the name of little Maria Santiago, an Otoe with a Spanish name, as she faces a microphone at the Blackwell bond rally with Tom Prentice, left, Kay County bond chairman, and Chief Truman Dailey of the Otoes."
Date: May 15, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0274.0557]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Students at Chiliocco Indian Agricultural school, have elected their princess and brave to reign over the fifth annual achievement days"
Date: March 9, 1950
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1026.0478]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Contracts have been awarded by Continental Oil Co. for a $2,250,000 research laboratory building in Ponca City, with completion expected in the autumn of 1951."
Date: August 20, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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