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[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0562]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rabbits, too still dressed in their hunting clothes-Bethany policeman, and twin brother, Chester, Nichols Hills constable, help unload the airborne whiskey, still hanging onto their rabbits."
Date: November 29, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0577]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A short while after this picture was taken, more than 9,000 pints of whiskey, rum and gin went down the drain at the courthouse garage."
Date: February 4, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0585]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The sheriff had room for another 400 cases of whiskey, Tuesday ad Bill Geesa, 2615 S Central, wailed up a seldom used corridor."
Date: June 13, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0566]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A $3,500 stock of Christmas cheer meant for Oklahoma City customers was detoured straight into the sheriff's vault Tuesday as Glen Roberts, left, and L. H. Kolb, right, deputies, took it over."
Date: December 13, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0591]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Loading the first of Oklahoma county's contraband liquor for shipment to a wet state was easy Monday compared to the job of hauling it down from its storage place in an unused portion of the jail."
Date: September 11, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0587]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After they had bought it Thursday two liquor dealers looked the sheriff here before they packed it for shipment to Kentucky and Louisiana."
Date: December 28, 1950
Creator: Orris, John Adam
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0596]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheriff Bob Turner found it pretty dusty in his liquor vault Tuesday when he looked over some 800 bottles of whiskey he will have to return to an Arizona liquor firm."
Date: April 17, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0592]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Checking For Final Delivery the 175 1 / 2 cases of confiscated liquor sold Wednesday by Oklahoma county officials are, left to right, Sheriff Bob Turner, and deputies Larkin Lamb and Frank Lynch."
Date: September 2, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0590]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Dry Christmas for somebody was indicated Monday when Sheriff Bob Turner and two deputies seized 40 cases of whiskey, valued at more than $4,000 in a raid on an Oklahoma City house."
Date: December 21, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0563]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Deputy sheriffs frank Lynch, left, and Larkin Lamb confiscated this car load of liquor- about 650 pints-in a house two miles east of U. S. 77 on Britton road Saturday."
Date: January 2, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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