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F.B. Severs Cash Store, Okmulgee, Indian Territory

Description: Photograph of the F.B. Severs Cash Store, Okmulgee, I.T. Photo was taken by John K. Hillers on May 9, 1875. Frederick Ballard Severs was a prominent rancher and entrepreneur in Indian Territory. He was the first postmasters in Okmulgee. He helped develop Okmulgee and Muskogee by constructing many of the business buildings, and he built and assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Muskogee.
Date: May 9, 1875
Creator: John K. Hillers
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An estimated 25,000 state Catholics converged on the state fairgrounds here Sunday afternoon for elaborate ceremonies celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the church's Oklahoma diocese."
Date: October 9, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0129]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The political future of Sheriff James G. Clark the hardcore segregationist who arrested thousands of racial demonstrators, lay undecided Wednesday in the ballots from six challenged election."
Date: March 9, 1966
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0516]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Aviation has been a part of Oklahoma City's way of life since 1909, but the significance of flying has changed fantastically in the half-century since a real estate man named Hathaway Harper rented a cow pasture in Capitol Hill for a landing field."
Date: January 9, 1957
Creator: Lindsey
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0254]

Description: An interior photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "[Charred waste] of insulating materials litters floor of Myriad Convention Center's exhibit hall after a Thursday morning fire."
Date: March 9, 1972
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0135]

Description: Caption: "Black smoke pours through roof of auto paint shop at 1142 N Robinson , below , and drifts across the city as shown in photo, right, taken from upper floor of OG&E Building at NW # and Harvey." Firetruck spraying water onto roof of burning auto paint shop.
Date: April 9, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0487]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Elders at South minster Presbyterian Church place their hands on the head of Mrs, Tom P. Eberhardt to symbolize her ordination"
Date: January 9, 1965
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0298]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William (Winfred) M. Cockrell, an alumnus of Oklahoma City University, has been elected president of Hilton Credit., credit card subsidiary of Hilton Hotels Corp., Chicago."
Date: May 9, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0411]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's campaigning teams Wednesday took a breather, as the second Queen of Queens contest closed, with Classen highschool Bluejackets queen , Dolores Erts, claiming the title ."
Date: April 9, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0098]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Robert Couger, an outstanding science student of Frederick High, is in San Diego for a Pacific cruise with Navy- an award he won at the District Science Fair this year."
Date: August 9, 1962
Creator: Dombrowski, Madge
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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