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[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0663]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Daddy's a Hero - Everybody Knows It Now - Little Cassandra Commiskey, 3 years old, watched in wonder Wednesday as President Truman made a national hero of her daddy, Lieut. Henry A. Commiskey, by bestowing a Congressional Medal of Honor on him."
Date: August 1, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0129]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NEW TERM for U. S. district attorney Paul Cress, right, started Thursday after he was sworn in, above, by federal district Judge Ross Rizley."
Date: August 28, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0563]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crash Result This car was stalled on U. S. 270 just west of Nicoma Park Thursday night when another auto driven by Lloyd "Bud" Shelby, 30, Nicoma Park, crashed into it, according to troopers Bill Lanacaster and Lee Sardis. Shelby was booked at the county jail on a charge of driving under the influence of liquor. Flame Samuel Fullerton, 53, Choctaw building contractor, was walking around the stopped vehicle prep… more
Date: August 11, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0572]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Six persons lost their lives and 35 were injured early Thursday when this Greyhound bus an automobile sideswiped, locked bumpers then plunged 40 feet into the bottom of Deer creek just west of Hydro, Caddo county, on U. S. 66. This was the picture after rescuers cleared the last of victims from the wreckage. A woman and her 3-year-old daughter, riding in the auto, and four bus passengers were killed in this, on… more
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0304]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "On a tour of Public Health Service Indian facilities are shown to Chetram Singh, British Guiana hospital administrator, and his wife by E. V. Downing (right), executive officer of Indian health."
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0229]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dell Durbin , 510 NW 6, 36-year-old engineer who had charge of building the Borden General Hospital in Chickasha, and an assistant in construction of the Oklahoma City air depot, was sworn into the Seabees Friday as a chief carpenter's mate."
Date: August 27, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0400]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cherie gives her mistress, Mrs. J. Dana Eastham, a congratulatory Kiss when she was named " Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds of 1963." Two days before she become Mrs. Georgia, Cherie gave birth to four puppies."
Date: August 16, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only min… more
Date: August 17, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0448]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Henry Collins, above, named as treasurer of the Communist part's prewar underground movement i the U. S., appears on the witness stand before the house un-American activities committee to deny charges he spied for Russia."
Date: August 12, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0358.0044]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a naval uniform standing in front of a black car shining the front headlight. Caption: "Seaman J. E. Emerson polishes up the new automobile he won on a dollar investment."
Date: August 18, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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