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[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0718]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Veterans housing projects under the federal housing administration's co-operative program are under the construction stage in four state towns, another bid was let last week and bids are being received on three other projects, Hugh Askew, district FHA director, said Saturday."
Date: June 6, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0746]

Description: Caption: "The 122-foot, 100-ton chimney of the Hazel-Atlas Glass company plant here topples to the ground as workmen continue cleanup of a two-block area on which the plant was located in Blackwell before the May 25 tornado unroofed the building and the properties caught fire."
Date: 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0716]

Description: Caption: "Blackwell's Riverside park is about ready to offer some simian hospitality, with restoration of tornado-battered monkey island facilities by local Kiwanians, including president Ralph Weigle, lift, Ellsworth Chaufty and Don Clary."
Date: 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0740]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After the Blackwell smelter closed, the land was cleared and though trust financing, several new industries were enticed to move in, Hiring those workers idled by the smelter closing."
Date: 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0084]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LAKE BLACKWELL -- This 3,000-acre lake, lying among the hills northwest of Stillwater forms the nucleus of the 20,000-acre central Oklahoma land utilization project which will be dedicated by the federal government to the state Wednesday."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0104]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two dozen picturesque cabins accommodating from two to eight persons, of which the one in the picture is typical, serve overnight, weekend guests or vacationists for longer periods of time."
Date: 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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