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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5223]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Pigeons huddle together on the leeward side of a city roof to keep out of frigid winds, which chilled the state today. Below freezing tempratures and wind sent the chill factor below zero this morning but the weatherman promises things will get better over the weekend."
Date: December 8, 1977
Creator: Ward, Mike
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8308]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Take a cold, gray-tinted color, but a perfect blend morning. Add a photographer with an eye for beauty. Put him in Lincoln Park near the still, frigid pond, mirroring a grayness of sky and hill. Into is vision swim three geese, their reflections creating an illusion of six ghostly white creatures gliding across a grayish-white emptiness, their stark black shadows, standing out like blots of ink. Cliff King, the Tim… more
Date: February 2, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8305]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Visitors to Lincoln Park zoo are seeing a new bird, the giant South American Condor, largest bird of prey in the world. The bird, aquired through a trade by Bob Jenni, the zoo's reptile curator, has a wingspread of 8 1/2 feet. Normal inhabitant of the Andrea peaks, the condor swoops down on his prey from high-altitude soaring. With its crest of red, the condor has a face (see closeup) similar to a rooster's. Julian … more
Date: September 1, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5218]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A sea gull in hot pursuit of a bite to eat somewhere over Europe provided the late Charles Gray of Oklahoma City the subject for this fetching series of photographs. He took the pictures with a German-made camera. The photos were submitted for consideration by Pauline Hessick, his secretary, who consequently has won Mrs. Grey a $5 prize given weekly by the Times. If you have an interesting black and white photo, send… more
Date: 1971
Creator: Gray, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8304]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "People-Watching Bird glaring suspiciously at photographer is and Andean Condor who apperently didn't approve of the invasion of its lair for this bird;s-eye view shot. The condor is a resident of the Lincoln Park Zoo."
Date: November 28, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5224]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flock of squatters that recently set up housekeeping in this tree and several others in the northwest part of town is not, unfortunately, a vanguard of spring. Believed to be ceder waxings, the birds are chirping a tune to the chilly contrary. Dr. Gary Schnell, University of Oklahoma assistant zoology professor and curator of birds at Stovall Museum said the waxings are vort of "vagrants" that flock together during the wi… more
Date: February 17, 1975
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5219]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bulldozers are having the last word in a two-year development in a wooded area of south Bethany, but opinions differ on the potential effect on a nearby bird sanctuary. The site, on the northeast corner of NW 23, and Rockwell, is being cleared for construction of a new supermarket, move opposed by residents of adjacent neighborhoods since 1974. The six-acre wooded tract, which has been a favorite park-type area for ch… more
Date: October 13, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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