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Boley, 1906

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Boley in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: November 1906
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ft. Smith & Western (FSW) #14

Description: A photograph print showing a group of of trainmen and three children posing in front of Ft. Smith & Western (FSW) #14, on a freight train consisting of extra gang cars and flat cars loaded with cotton, Castle, OK. "Copy of a photo loaned to S. R.Wood by L. B. Berry, Jr, former vice president and later receiver of the railroad"
Date: November 2, 1912
Creator: Wood, Sylvan R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #14

Description: A photograph postcard showing Fort Smith & Western (FSW) 14, 4-6-0, on a cotton train at Castle, OK. Cotton bales are stacked on flatbed cars. Cars near locomotive look like bunk cars for a track gang.
Date: November 3, 1912
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0096.0308]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The main street of Boley, all-Negro community, where D. J. Turner, pioneer Negro Bank president, was killed in the "little war" in which George Birdwell, pal of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and Charles "Pete" Glass, Negro, were slain and C. C. Paterson, third member of the bandit trio was critically wounded."
Date: November 29, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Aerial Shot of a Badly Gullied Area

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of a badly gullied area on which erosion control has been attempted through terracing. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Badly gullied area on which erosion control has been attempted through terracing. This area will have diversion ditches around head and all gullies sloped and re-terraced. Progress pictures to be taken."
Date: November 17, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ft. Smith & Western (FSW) Flatcar

Description: A photograph print showing a Ft. Smith & Western (FSW) flatcar carrying motive power for FSW ditcher. Boiler is from engine No. 1, cylinder and drivers from former engine No. 42 (0-4-4T), fuel tender unsourced, Paden, OK.
Date: November 28, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0734]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A graying Philadelphia woman - cold, tired and hopeful she outdid the Russians - Monday brought her 65-foot gold-hued balloon back to earth after an apparent world endurance record for women."
Date: November 20, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1389.0319]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Coronation of Brenda Walker, as band queen at Okemah High School is scheduled Friday night between halves of the Okemah-Bristow football game."
Date: November 5, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0543]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A whimsical idea that helped put the town of Okemah on the map, the unusual messages on the city's three water towers elicit comments "from people all over the country' driving along I-40, says City Manager Wayne A. Pritchett."
Date: November 10, 1978
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0078]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Capt. John Brown and Lt. Mike Williams aid in the search of a man suspected of shooting a highway patrolman Wednesday night near Okemah on I-40"
Date: November 5, 1981
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0361B.0020]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Highway patrolmen escort John Wayne Leach to jail in Okemah Thursday. Police say Leach, one of four arrested, is the prime suspect in the shooting of a trooper near Okemah."
Date: November 5, 1981
Creator: Hayden, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0639]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mark Smyth plays the flues on his labor of love, a 80-year-old pipe organ he restored backstage in his movie theater in Okemah."
Date: November 26, 1986
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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