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[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0307]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Despite the fact that he has two artificial legs and one artificial arm, Elmer Morriss drives this car, which was a gift of a Fort Worth automobile dealer."
Date: March 26, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0309]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "W. W. Woodworth, Ringling, banker and one of the trustee group which raised the Elmer Morriss fund, chats with Elmer and his wife, Velma, at the gate of the new Morriss home. Meanwhile, he's tugging at the toe of Danny Jay, the Morriss' 6-month-old son."
Date: March 26, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0313]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer J. Morriss, Ringling, Okla., WWII veteran and triple amputee, with his family (wife Velma, and son Danny Jay)."
Date: March 26, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0444]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An early portable drilling rig, used in the Healdton Oil Field in 1919, owned jointly by Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. and Gypsy Oil Co., the unit was in almost perpetual use because it could move quickly and permitted handling of a variety of equipment."
Date: October 26, 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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