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Notes and Documents, Winter 1971

Description: Notes and Documents column including a tribute to Senator Robert L. Owen, a report on a fire that destroyed the Historic Colony School, and a note on new additions to the organization's museum and library.
Date: Winter 1971
Creator: Shirk, George H.; Pierce, Julius & Fraker, Elmer L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Pioneers in Mexico: The Chamal Colony

Description: Article describes the history of the Chamal Colony, located in the southwest corner of Tamaulipas, Mexico. John J. Winberry highlights the initial optimism of the settlers from Oklahoma who journeyed to begin the colony, and the hardships they eventually faced.
Date: Summer 1978
Creator: Winberry, John J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7290]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Corn tornado left behind the freak wreckage that people have come to associate with Oklahoma's twisters. The home shown above was on the edge of a residential area that was completely leveled. The house lost the roof and the front wall. The organ shown in the room at the right still holds an undistrubed sheet of music. The chairs in the room were still sitting naturally around the table, but the house losty an entir… more
Date: June 9, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7289]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four hours after the storm, the only people awake in Corn were the outsiders. At colony, a small group of residents watched curiously as telephone linemen set up a makeshift connection attached to a pole at the corner of the town's main intersection. At daylight Saturday, Colony people were lined up on the sidewalk to place reassuring telephone calls to worried relatives and recieve the anxious incomingcalls. It was the … more
Date: June 9, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7292]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The church bus, or what's left of it, shown in the background above was parked in a garage 1 1/2 blocks away from its presents location when a twister hit Corn shortly before dark Friday. In the foreground is all that's left of several homes in Corn's southwest residential section."
Date: June 9, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7291]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twin tornadoes joined forces to smash two properous Washita farming towns, left more than 100 homeless and caused property damage that mounted Saturday into thousands. Corn, a mennonite community of 600, fourteen miles southwest of Weatherford felt the heaviest force of the blow. the twister demolished 40 homes, the school gymniasum and damaged the town's most beautiful landmark, the newly constructed Mennonite Brethern c… more
Date: June 7, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7293]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a destroyed home/building with just the foundation and some of the concrete of the concrete walls still there, an organ/piano at middle left torn apart, and more)"
Date: June 9, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Seger Indian School

Description: Photograph of Miss Jensen, Miss Page, Mrs. Page, Sister Of Mrs. Roe, Mrs. Roe, Mr. Roe, Mr. B---Caw, Mrs. Kincade, Sister Of Mr. Roe, Mr. Kincade, John Strange, Hamlin Garland, Author of "Captain of Gray Horse Troop," at the Seger Indian School, Colony, Oklahoma Territory, c.1901.
Date: 1901~
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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