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[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0267]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Farmer-scientist Joseph Danne, right, inspects a gold watch presented to him Monday for his outstanding experimental work with wheat."
Date: March 22, 1953
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0272]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joseph Danne, 72, who believed that experimenting with production of new kinds of plants was "getting close to creation itself," was found dead Wednesday at his home near El Reno."
Date: September 3, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0269]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "I watched my wheat roll by my farm in trucks . . . then in railroad cars . . . and now in train loads." Those are the words of Joseph Danne, 63-year-old El Reno farmer-scientist, who has given the wheat belt new varieties of grain which have been bred to combat rust, smut, wet weather, dry weather and who is now working on a wheat variety to withstand the assault of greenbugs."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0281]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pictures on Joseph Danne, lives near El Reno, bred wheat variety early triumphant most popular in Okla. today."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0276]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joseph Danne, who developed the nation's No. 1 early maturing wheat, was found dead in his farm home seven miles southwest of El Reno Wednesday."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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