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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) "Choctaw Rocket"

Description: A photograph print showing a Rock Island & Pacific (RI) "Rock Island", single unit streamlined diesel-electric on passenger train No. 52 "Choctaw Rocket" eastbound near Wister, OK, 4 cars. At this time, the Choctaw rocket operated daily between Memphis, Litle Rock, McAlester, and Oklahoma City. Parts of this route are now abandoned.
Date: December 26, 1949
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0807]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The $55,000.00 bridge being constructed across Elm Fork of Red River, Five miles south of Granite on No. 6 highway will be finished by Dec. 15, M. K. Brown foreman for the SS and W construction company of Okla. City said."
Date: November 26, 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0124.0330]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of the few banks in the state which does not destroy its records five years after they are made, the First National bank of Guthrie still has the first checks, deposit slips and ledgers used the day it was founded 60 years ago."
Date: November 26, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1398.0312]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A couple of newcomers to the publishing field got a few pointers on profitable advertising from a veteran at Sunday's meeting."
Date: November 26, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2801]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo from a distance of the stadium full, a game in action, some campus building in sight, housing, parking lots full, and more.)"
Date: November 26, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cores from Drain Holes

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-1222. Cores from additional drain holes in gallery of Altus Dam. This core is from hole D-64.5, mistakenly marked in photograph as D-63.5. Box is 5' long."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: George, P. W.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

[Photograph 2012.201.B0098.0672]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Cementing exemplary relations they hope will extend throughout student bodies at Capitol Hill and Central highschools on the eve of the teams' Friday football meeting are Clinton Chandler, left, president of the Capitol Hill Alumni association, F. R. Born, Central principal, and Mary Lewis, Capitol Hill grad now secretary at Central."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0448]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tinker Airbase personnel and civic leaders gave Lt. Gen. Benjamin W. Chidlaw, commanding general of the air material command, a formal welcome to Oklahoma at noon Wednesday."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0282.0260]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Awaiting their trip to England, left to right, are Maxwell, 4; Mrs. Lydia McCann; Robert, 2; Ann 3, and Mrs. Malcolm J. Harrison."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292B.0381]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Isolation of a virus which causes a particularly fatal type of diarrhea among new born babies has given medical science another weapon for saving them, Dr. Horace L. Hopes, clinical professor of pediatrics at Columbia University said here Wednesday."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0356]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is probably the only time Charles Dempsey, 2841 NW 21,12-year-old Taft junior high-school student, will be able to say he could have jumped across the Fort Gibson reservoir."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0357]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the oldest machines known to man is still turning out useful and beautiful things in Oklahoma. Ted Longino, ceramics engineer from Sapulpa, shows a crowd of interest onlookers how it's done with a pottery wheel."
Date: October 26, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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