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Charles H. Tompkins

Description: Photograph of Charles H. Tompkins , front, second from the left, and other members of the Railroad Signal Installation Gang sitting on the steps of their boarding house, Brunside, CT, c. 1907.
Date: 1907~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Connecticut Company 656

Description: A photograph print of Connecticut Company 656, open-air trolley (Brill), crossing the trestle over East Haven River on the Bradford Private Right of Way "F" Line. Used on a fan trip with 85 passengers. The car only seats 75.
Date: July 14, 1946
Creator: Wadhams, Ed
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Episode at Cornwall

Description: Article chronicles how the Cornwall Mission School was shut down due to rumors of poor management spurred by an interracial marriage between one of the school's agent's daughters and an alumni of Cherokee origin.
Date: Winter 1973
Creator: Delly, Lillian
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0487]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rescue Workers begin the grim job of searching for bodies Monday as the examine wreckage of Allegheny Airlines propjet that crashed while on approach to fog-shrouded Tweed-New Haven, Conn., airport. In background is frame of one of the houses set afire by the flaming wreckage. Only the co-pilot and two passengers of the 31 aboard survived."
Date: June 8, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0089.0784]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Albert Bigelow, who staged a headlined drama of world-wide interest last year when he sailed his ketch, "Golden Rule," into restricted Pacific Nuclear testing grounds, will appear in the Miracle Playhouse November 12 in "Which Way the Wind?" a stage-sized documentary drama of related theme."
Date: October 29, 1959
Creator: Matt, Herron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0480]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Michael J. Brody Jr., 23, already charged with threatening President Nixon's life, was charged with arson after fire destroyed his $100.000 rented house in the exclusive Wilson Point section of Norwalk, Conn."
Date: 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0138.0710]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ben Cohen, a 28-year-old bachelor, is somewhere between Oklahoma City and Wichita, Kan., today, proably on a back road , heading home."
Date: September 9, 1983
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0155.0462]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The center is definitely one thing that keeps me with Cigna, " says single parent Betty Caruso as she and her three sons leave for home recently in Bloomfield, Conn."
Date: 1984
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0696]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "William R. Clayborn, 24, above, has been commissioned a coast guard ensign after completion of a four-month course at the Coast Guard academy, New London, Conn."
Date: June 10, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "We have had American generals who were sticklers for correct military dress, but the man who rose form obscurity to become commander-in-chief of the Union Forces in the Civil war was not among them."
Date: 1934
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0177_18]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Only Harvard and William And Mary antedate yale University, whose founding in 1701 makes it the third oldest institution of higher learning in the country."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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