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[Photograph 2012.201.B0255.0528]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Like a giant locust awaiting the season of flight, this Chinook CH-47 helicopter stands idle on a Fort Sill pad with other craft until Army crews receive another mission"
Date: August 27, 1979
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0687]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bridge over Blue Beaver Creek between Cache and Faxon in Comanche County lies in ruin after surging waters triggered by 8.6 inch rains in the area Sunday sent the creek out of its banks."
Date: August 29, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1436.1040]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ward 7 City Councilman, Fred Chenault is not in the repair business, but he says he took on the task of revitalizing a house in his ward to keep more housing there."
Date: August 13, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0146]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's last downtown picture show, the Lawton Theater, closed its doors this week after an auction of all its furnishings was held."
Date: August 28, 1976
Creator: Etheridge, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0493]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A massive crane lowers a white aluminum steeple onto the new First Baptist Church building in downtown Lawton. The 70-foot-tall steeple is part of a $4 million church building program nearing completion. The congregation's old church was destroyed in a 1973 fire."
Date: August 30, 1978
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0404]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "STILL PLAYING after eight days in the Lawton DeMolay "Cardathon" are teens raising money for charity while hoping to set a continuous card-playing record in the process."
Date: August 16, 1977
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0458]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The four-story Koehler Building in downtown Lawton crumbles Sunday morning as workers with Dyke Explosive Service Co., Tulsa, detonate 150 pounds of dynamite charges strategically placed in the base of the 71-year-old office building."
Date: August 13, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0420]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Adult Arcade in Lawton has been identified as among the holdings of nationally known fugitive pornographer Michael Thevis."
Date: August 16, 1978
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0459]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A pile of rubble is all that remains of the four-story Koehler Building in downtown Lawton which was destroyed Sunday by 150 pounds of dynamite charges placed at the base of the 71-year-old building."
Date: August 14, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1255.0467]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hurricane help from Oklahoma employees of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is due on Texas coastal areas, site of widespread damage to telephone equipment."
Date: August 10, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1030.0290]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Velma Power, 18, now of Lawton, after travels with her family and Army, say she wants "to prove to myself that I can go before people."
Date: August 20, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1366.0667]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Roland Whitehorse, Kiowa living at Elgin, said changes started in 1932 when tribal quarterly payments started, and after Indians went military service."
Date: August 18, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1348.0399]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fifteen-year-old Beth Wallis of rural Duncan is garbed in full costume at the Half-Arabian Horse Show, held over the weekend at the Comanche Co. Fairgrounds in Lawton. She is riding her half-Arabian horse, Hazaad, at the seventh annual event."
Date: August 17, 1978
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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