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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1285]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the "Armour and Co" brick building under fire with flames coming out windows, six firemen looking at the building, one in front of the back five looks to be spraying the building, and more.)"
Date: July 17, 1963
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1906]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A section of Oklahoma City's $5 millions, late type sewage plant with a secondary trickling filter in foreground can be seen above. There are eight such filters and four primary ones. Tanks at left are digesters where organic solids are taken from the water. Fertilizer and sewer gas are removed in this process. Except for electric lights, Oklahoma City's $5 million southside sewage disposal plant is self sufficen… more
Date: April 3, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0713]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "300 wiped out so far this year-that's the grim score on Oklahoma's highways. To emphasizw the growing toll from traffic accidents, the 45th Division pulled 300 men out of their training schedule at summer camp and lined them up in a pyramid of humans for this picture. As of Monday morning, 302 persons had died on state roads so far in 1966. The state national guard division is extremely safety conscious. it achieved… more
Date: June 3, 1966
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7150]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(nightime photo with emergency/service vehicles at a house/building, a worker at the left truck, and more. Backside handwriting: "39th & May Looking North.")"
Date: April 30, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4400]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shaping of things to come in 1954 is underway on the part of the street layout for the new $4,745,000 fairgrounds west of May avenur, between 10 and Reno, as heavy dirt moving equipment tears into the preliminary rough grading job. The picture here looks toward the old sandlot baseball park, in the background. First grading and drainage work is being done by Oklahoma Construction Co., Muskogee. Contracts also have been l… more
Date: September 16, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1587]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a rocket raised to shot off from a hualing a trailer, a guy in a suit at bottom left, servicmen in uniform at bottom left in the background by the building, at the top of the building at upper middle is "East" and "West," and more.)"
Date: April 29, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9849]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a group at the negro orphans' home at Taft. As is the case with the white infants and children under 6 at Pryor, these babies should not be kept in an institution. The close personal and medical attention they need can only be supplied in a foster home."
Date: 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9852]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A half century of growth is downtown Oklahoma City is reflected in these two photos made from the same locations looking north in Robinson from Main. The other picture, top, provided by Lester J. Sabolich, was taken in the 1920's and the other one was made today. In the older picture the taller building, left, was the Liberty Bank. The same two buildings are shown in the newer picture, but the one at left is known as… more
Date: April 6, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10078]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Members of St. Luke's Methodist church plan to have the first meeting in the new education building at NW 15 and Harvey, May 24. The building, above, will cost an estimated $750,000, the first project of the $1,500,000 program. The congregation will leave its present building at NW 8 and Robinson June 11 for regular meetings in the new building. Construction will begin this summer on a new church auditorium to be built e… more
Date: April 21, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4804]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Seared Debris was all that was left of the St. Robert's Bellarime Catholic Church in Jones after flames gutted the $25,000 building early Friday. Almost all religious objects were destroyed. Residents, awakened at 6 a.m., saved the pews and a few of the objects. A new $20,000 annex and kitchen did not burn, but were badly damaged by water. Residents said they intend to clean up the annex and use it as a sanctuary un… more
Date: April 20, 1962
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9458]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "True Outline Of Oklahoma City's Newest Bypass Expressway is shaping up between Belle Isle lake and NW 39. Concrete curbing outlining the four-lane divided expressway is completed in view above, looking north from Mattern drive toward the Northwest highway bypass. The newest leg of the bypass, which will carry U.S. 66 traffic, will be completed from this point southwest to NW 39 and Drexel under two contracts."
Date: December 23, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1170]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two firemen at the fire hose nozzle spraying, the far one looking towards the camera area with the nozzle in his hands, the front one looking away, fire in the background, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3129]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Anywhere you turn in Oklahoma you find pretty outdoor spots.But few areas of the state offer the combination of rugged, rock peaks, timber and water that is found in the Wichita which stretch in granite majesty north and west of Lawton…The Wichitas are becoming increasingly popular with vacitioners from Oklahoma City and all of western Oklahoma. They also draw heavily from north Texas."
Date: May 4, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2082]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Relays of persons used a five handle shovel here Tuesday to break ground for the $27 million Foss reservior, a multi-purpose project that will dam the upper Washita to provide a 8,00 acre lake, largest in this low rainfall area. The ceremonies took place on achill, windswept hill which will anchor the northen end of the 18,000-foot-rolled earth dam, that will extend south across a narrow valley....Representatives of cities… more
Date: November 18, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5604]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two-year-old Randy plays among the splintered wreckage at North campus, Norman, Sunday. With him is his father Rondie L. Hand, a student from Shrevenport, LA."
Date: May 1, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4970]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Editor's Note: This story is not easy nor enjoyable reading. No story is that deals with unfortunate segment of humanity that finds itself in wards or hospitals for the mentally defective. Yet the care of the mentally sick, the feeble minded and the insane is a hard reality that every commonwealth must face. Few of them have faced it realistically or creditably. Oklahoma's record is particularly depressing, … more
Date: 1946
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8363]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mathilda, safely immered in her new home, stares up at Gayla Peevey, the little girl whose fast-selling Christmas song started the chain of events that tied a Yule ribbon around a 700-pound hippo."
Date: December 24, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9846]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a group of younger children at the Whittaker State Home at Pryor, which houses 368 of the state's orphans. All the children in this picture are less than six years of age. Every official survey of orphanages has recommended that pre-school age children be placed in foster homes, since it is impossible to give little ones the close personal and medical attention they need in a mass-custodial institution. There are… more
Date: 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5312]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(group of protesters walking towards the camera holding signs and American flags, a "Pay-less Shoes" and a "Mars" just behind, major road on the right with the businesses, in the far background is the Penn-May-I-44 business district, and more.)"
Date: April 2, 1971
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10175]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City firemen put on a show Tuesday for the visiting firemen when they used the new McAlpine drill tower, in the 400 block W California, for the first time. The show was under direction of Capt. Harry Davis, drillmaster, and used a 100-foot aerial ladder and two engine trucks to show 43 state chiefs here for the annual Oklahoma Fire Chiefs convention how to get water high and fast. The tower also is used to tr… more
Date: May 11, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1275]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fire, fueled by an accumulation of old paint and fanned by north winds gusting to 40 miles an hour, destroyed the A&A Guaranteed Auto Painting Co. shop this morning at 407 NW 8. Capt. Eldon Tinsley, acting district fire chief, estimated danage at $75,000. About 15 automobiles in the shop for paint and body repairs were damaged. The blaze, shooting through roof skylights when firemen arrived shortly after 2:20 a.m… more
Date: March 31, 1971
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3434]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "All decked out in full Indian dress, twins Melvin (left) and Alvin Deer, 8, Anadarko, are "beating the drum" for the American Indian Exposition August 15-19 at Anadarko with their dance in the lobby of the Oklahoma club, Grand and Robinson. The twins are sons of George Dee and Mrs. Fern Cochran, Anadarko, and appeared here with a delegation of 15 Inians publicizing the exposition."
Date: July 29, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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