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California Southern (CSR) #15

Description: A 4 x 7 photograph print showing California Southern (CSR) #15, 4-6-0 (BLW - 1887, #8522). Ran between Barstow and San Diego from 1880-1889 (then) taken over by ATSF. Scrapped at Richmond, CA, 9/17/1914.
Date: unknown
Creator: Wood, Sylvan R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The California Overland Mail Route Through Oklahoma

Description: Article details the establishing of a mail route through Oklahoma and Indian Territories during their frontier era. These routes provided mailing services from Texas to California. A first person narrative is given of someone who traveled down one of these routes.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lieutenant Simpson's California Road Across Oklahoma

Description: Article provides an introduction to and includes the report written by Lieutenant James H. Simpson, a member of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, providing an analysis about the route called the California Road. It includes references to texts of previous reports by Lieutenant A. W. Whipple and Randolph B. Marcy.
Date: Summer 1960
Creator: Dott, Robert H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

All that Glitters, Assaying S. H. Logan's "Trip to the Gold Fields"

Description: Article provides a thorough examination of S.H. Logan's "Trip to the Gold Fields," an account allegedly compiled from the writings of an emigrant who had joined Captain Randolph B. Marcy on a gold-seeking expedition to California, which was published in the Arkansas Gazette in 1941. Since it has been cited as a primary source, Stephen H. Dew exposes certain areas of the account that may be fabricated in comparison to more factual and evidentiary sources.
Date: Autumn 1993
Creator: Dew, Stephen H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5171]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of California street from an upper view with business signs. On the left is "Colony Furniture, "Horn Seed," Nichols Seed Co.," and more. On the right is "Ideal Cleaner," "The Oliver," "Shannon," and more.)"
Date: May 3, 1947
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5170]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's what California avenue looks like in the eye of a camera. It looked exactly the same to the driver of a fire truck who wandered how he'd manage to weave through if he were answering an alarm in the downtown loop. The photographer was perched on top of the aerial ladder truck for this picture, looking west in the 200 block W California. Cars that are parked, double-parked and some even triple-parked, are shown … more
Date: May 3, 1947
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1527]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Awaiting turns at the city jail desk, "The Righteous Ones." left to right: Jack S. Shockey, James S. Henderson, Steve C. Evans, Jack O. Barnhart, and Leroy M. Criswell, along with "chick," Partricia Rakes, appear unconcerned."
Date: April 28, 1966
Creator: Lucas, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Street Scene

Description: Photograph of the view looking east on California Avenue across Harvey Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK, as it looked in 1960.
Date: 1960~
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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