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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4769]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Part of the throng of proud Oklahomans gathered around the Guthrie Library for the inauguration of Governor Frank Frantz on January 15, 1906." He was the last Governor of the Oklahoma Territory before statehood.
Date: 1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10629]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A two-block "Boomtown" is being laid out at the state fairgrounds in a turn-back-the-clock project that will take 27 years off Oklahoma "history and give visitors to the state's Semi-Centennial Exposition a life-sized look at a real old-time oiltown. Boomtown U.S.A., one of the liveliest attractions of the upcoming expositions, will reset the scene og a chill March morning in 1930 when a boisterous chapter in oilfield hist… more
Date: February 15, 1957
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3459]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The tender Big Red E - seasoned with a year in the statehouse and steeped in the heady wine of repeal - along with the tough Old Guard were held to the fire Saturday night. Head chefs were the 50 newsmen-actors of the Oklahoma City Gridiron Club. In 2 hours of cooking with ryhme, satire and song they reviewed the political year in oklahoma. The result was Roast Politician - well done.......The show was written by Carter … more
Date: January 28, 1960
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7745]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The acquisition of approximately 436 acres west of Tinker Air Force Base by General Motors Corp. for future use is the "most significant" event in Oklahoma's economy in 25 years, city and state leaders said Friday. Paul Strasbaugh, executive director of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, declared it "the most significant since the location of Tinker." "We are very pleased," Strasbaugh said. "We have been working … more
Date: March 28, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4964]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of a three-story building with a rounding drive-way in front, at least two people on the porch, a two-story white sided building on the left, and more)"
Date: 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10119]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stained glass panels on the doors into the nave of the church depict the Beatitudes. All windows in the church were produced by the Willet Stained Glass Studios in Philadelphie. The studies created a rediscovered medieval type of stained glass which is used in the First Presbyterian windows and panels."
Date: November 23, 1964
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8496]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The federal reformatory at El Reno is nationally known as a model institution and is the city's second largest industry employing 270 persons. Only 200 of the 1,000 inmated are confined in cell-type housing, the others are quarted in dormitories."
Date: 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2659]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Something different in Easter attire is worn by these gracefully-arching old trees in the 300 block NW 17 Saturday when an early spring storm pelted the city. Although intense, the storm quickly moved on and drizzle that followed that followed erased most of the snow."
Date: March 28, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3501]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When the greatest golf players in the world tee off at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa Thursday they will colide with one of the most challenging courses ever to play host to the National Open Championship."
Date: June 6, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4572]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo inside the arena with workers on the ground floor, dirt, all the seating in place, a pickup, and more. Backside typing: "Final work being done at arena and it's supposed to be ready for horse show sat. night. If can get pic - - interior with some workmen showing if possible.)"
Date: September 8, 1965
Creator: Crowder, Russ
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2418]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Like to see Oklahoma City's Civic Center look like this? Unfortunatley, an artist drew in all those palms and tropical birds. Whoops! Don't give in to temptation or those winter stories you heard. It's still much to early to plant an orange tree in the back yard. Oklahoma City isn't a tropical paradise yet..."Why, I remember when the thermometer went down to 20 below and stayed there three weeks," Grandpa says..… more
Date: March 19, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3368]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Wilson Ahboah, a member of the Wichita Tribe, straightens festhers on a colorful Indian headdress at her camp in Anadarko. She came back to her former hometown from Phoenix, Ariz., for the American Indian Exposition."
Date: August 12, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10529]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "On The West wall of the Bethany city hall, a large map of the town shows, in many colors, all the paved streetsof the town. Here and there, there's a "white" street, meaning no paving, but they're rare. City manager Harry Mcrory boasts that they're getting rarer, too. He credits this rarity with a particular group of streets in the midst of the map-about 19 miles altogether-which have been paved in the last four yea… more
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6133]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bootle-Neck' at Classen traffic circle greeted motorists - again - Wednesday afternoon during the rush hour when soft-drink cases toppled from a bottling company truck. Last Monday, motorists encountered 50 npounds of nails which fell from a truck into the road."
Date: November 13, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7735]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "General Electric Company's information devices department is in the process of moving into its new 108,000-square-foot metal fabrication building at Morgan Road and W Reno. The move-in started December 16 and may be completed Monday, a company spokeman said. The new plant will manufacture precision parts for GE computer componets. It will employ about 200 persons. Manufacturing operations by the company's production mac… more
Date: January 2, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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