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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0293]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vaughn B. Costley heads the new farm service department of the First National Bank of Miami and is something new in financial circles-a chap who can make a quick and correct change from a neat bank employee to a semi-county agent with soil on his shoes."
Date: February 6, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0059]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of the most insistent pre-Pearl Harbor advocates of a national synthetic rubber program, as a form of " national defense insurance, " was John L. Collyer, since 1939 president of the B. F. Goodrich company, which has just announced it will build a tire-making plant at , Miami, Okla."
Date: December 9, 1943
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0542

Description: Crowd around daytime fire of home in Pitcher, Oklahoma. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Last remnants of the Picher fire which claimed five lives Saturday are put out by volunteer firemen from six neighboring towns."
Date: February 10, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413.0093]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two men who helped make up the thin ranks of America's "forgotten expedition" to Siberia got together recently after living for years within a few miles of each other."
Date: November 17, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0283]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Freight Crash-- Five trainmen emerged unscathed, except for slight bruises and scratches, from this tumbled wreckage of two Frisco locomotives following a collision early Wednesday near Afton."
Date: February 5, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0842]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BRUISED AND DAZED, John White, 24, peers from the crushed cab of his truck in Miami where he was trapped for an hour. White said that the lumber shifted forward when his brakes locked."
Date: September 11, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0658]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of 175 employees at the Glenn Berry Manufacturers garment plant in Commerce, Joan Gamble runs a pair of GI fatigues through a sewing machine."
Date: April 19, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0206]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dispatching mail around Christmas time, particularly without benefit of modern equipment, is a tedious yet pleasant task for Ben Cooksey, Fairland's busy postmaster."
Date: December 24, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0660]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "World's largest lead and zinc mill, the Eagle Picher central mill at Commerce is virtually shutdown with only a standby and maintenance crew."
Date: June 19, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0317]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wedding vows were exchanged here today between George L. Coleman, wealthy industrialist and part owner of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, and Mrs. Dawn L. Soles, Montecito, CA., socialite."
Date: November 12, 1959
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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