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[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0560]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Awards ranging from three months of free laundry service to a ride in a jet plane will be showered upon A-2C Richard F. Coles, as Tinker airforce base's "Airman of the quarter."
Date: July 19, 1955
Creator: Tinker Air Force Base (Okla.)
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Range. Close-up view of dead grass on the range land that was deferred in 1954. The poor condition of this range is due to five years of continuous drought. See OK-90-6. OK-90-8.
Date: July 19, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1396.0002]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Martha B. Warner, who came to Lawton in August, 1901, in a covered wagon, enjoys the contrast of modern travel as she rode the first Frisco streamliner, The Meteor, to Lawton from Oklahoma City Monday."
Date: July 19, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0650]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The mother of four children, supporting her family while her husband is in the hospital, was killed Tuesday morning when the car in which she was riding with three other Tinker field workers smashed into a passenger train at Meridian. The others were seriously injured. The 33-year-old woman's death, and that of a 19-year-old Hooker youth Monday, raised the state traffic toll to 293 for the year--only five less… more
Date: July 19, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0974B.0583]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Floods on Fork creek have knawed away at the bank of earth holding N Kelley above the bed and city officials have ordered the street closed as "too dangerous for traffic."
Date: July 19, 1955
Creator: Bergin, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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