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[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0734]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Early view of OKC's skyline is pictured on new city limits signs which are being placed on various highways into the city. The first was installed on Northwest Highway just west of the Oklahoma / Canadian Co. line."
Date: March 10, 1966
Creator: Brown, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0733]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joining in on the nation's birthday celebration, Oklahoma Dept. of Highways workers from Perry install a sign noting the Bicentennial to accompany the standard "Welcome to Oklahoma" sign on I-35 near the Kansas border. Similar signs are being placed in five other locations statewide: I-40 near Sallisaw; on U.S. 69 / 75 south of Durant; I-40 in Beckham Co. ; I-35 south of Marietta; and on I-44 in northeast Oklahoma, near Miam… more
Date: March 1, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0740]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Greeting visitors who cross the state line into Oklahoma these days is a "Happy Birthday America" greeting, which have been added to the welcome signs on major highways entering the state. This one is at the Oklahoma-Texas line south of Durant on U. S. 69 / 75."
Date: May 9, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0745]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Inanimate things as well as humans sometimes need to be salvaged and this salvage yard in the 3300 block of NE 10 is ready to try its hand at saving automobiles."
Date: March 12, 1980
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0747]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A new kind of fuel-saving car soaring across the landscape or a message from on high - whatever it is, it's flying high as an attention getter. Many motorists around Lexington do a double take when they see this advertising message just as staff photographer J. Don Cook did."
Date: August 24, 1980
Creator: Cook, J. Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0803]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This sign is not as humorous as it might first seem. Posted at OKC's Baptist Hospital, it's a helpful warning to pregnant women to let the folks in the radiology dept. know if they're "that way" so possible harmful effects can be avoided."
Date: February 22, 1982
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0793]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Let's hope this is just an attention-getting device because you know it certainly is not intended as an indication of the quality of work done at this shop."
Date: April 23, 1982
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0796]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Still open, despite Saxon Oil Co. 's financial problems, is the company's Fletcher area office in Comanche Co. The office occupies a former residence in the midst of that natural-gas-rich area."
Date: August 4, 1982
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0786]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Reba Brown, 10713 Whitehaven Road, moved to The Village three years ago, she sought to escape water problems that often left parts of her Cambridge Court home under water. However, for the past 18 months her lawn has been flooded six times by an OKC waterline. The most recent break prompted her neighbors to put up a sign."
Date: August 5, 1982
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0795]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Grandfield, Okla., started out with a hometown drama program and ended up with a flourishing theater. Support from the surrounding area has allowed the group to expand and now it is buying more property."
Date: August 15, 1982
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0791]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At least one disappointed Oklahoma City voter wasted no time in cleaning up his yard after this week's election. The fate of one of many failed state campaigns is symbolized by this dumped yard sign."
Date: August 26, 1982
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0794]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Election-time paraphernalia adorn this intersection in OKC, a reminder to passers-by that win or lose, a candidate's sign will remain in place until someone takes it down."
Date: August 27, 1982
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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