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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1803]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Document: Hill-Cutlines: "This is four maps in one picturing the tangled knot yet to be untied by the city council to enable the city school board to develop old Fair park as a Negro educational site. Inclosed in the heavy dotted line at center of map are the 26.65 acres of the park originally sold by the city to the school board for $450,000. With that money, the city started acquiring a part of the new fairg… more
Date: 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1802]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Document: Hill-Cutlines: "After all the swapping is done, under present proposals now being studied by the city council, this is the way the old fair grounds would be divided up. The area shown in white would be used as the site for the new Negro highschool, including most of the present race track area. The area shaded gray would be owned by the city for Negro park purposes. In addition, the city would own titl… more
Date: 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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