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[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0442]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Guards with weapons at the ready stand watch on the No. 1 tower at the gate to the brickyards at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester."
Date: May 13, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0222]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HOT SPOT-The bad men in the state penitentiary are worked in the brick plant,where hot kilns do little to cool their tempers."
Date: May 13, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0223]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "AVENUE-Along the road at the left,eight desperate convicts from Oklahoma's state prison made their dash for freedom Wednesday noon."
Date: May 13, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0107]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With 5,000 men left idle by a strike in the tri-state lead and zinc district, scenes like this were typical over the week-end."
Date: 1935
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1066.0248]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The workd would be better off with the old whipping post of the Indian law than it is with its crowded jails and penitentiaries."
Date: 1932
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1105.0398]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "AT MCALESTER-In this eastern Oklahoma city,where President Roosevelt spoke briefly,only Tomas Qualters,bodyguard,standing just left of the chief executive,marred a graphic illustration of Oklahoma congressional deledgates basking in the Roosevelt aura."
Date: 1938
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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