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BASEMENT BOX 67.0457

Description: Group of men helping with fire, burned trucks, cars and semi in daytime image. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A cleanup crew (above) went to work late Monday to clear away the debris left by gasoline fire that destroyed a garage, filling station and a fuel truck at Mcloud."
Date: March 7, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0865]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Leonard O'Neal Armstrong, Oklahoma City lumber trailer truck driver, died enroute to a Shawnee hospital Tuesday following a wreck caused when his load of lumber shifted forward about two miles south of Asher in Pottawatomie county. Above is the scattered lumber almost submerging the truck cab."
Date: August 16, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0271.0099]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma Baptist university's mile relay quartet which will run in the Texas relays at Austin Saturday talk it over with Coach Eddie Hurt."
Date: April 7, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0363.0058]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 28-year-old former news-paper man with a "personal grudge against polio " has been named eastern Oklahoma representative for National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis."
Date: May 12, 1950
Creator: Petrauskas, Kazimir
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0196]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wayne Cole, 13, (left) Bethel 4-H clubber, poses with his light Duroc barrow that won the grand champion award in the Shawnee junior livestock show Thursday."
Date: March 3, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0128

Description: Photograph taken at night of a brush fire. Caption: "Wind whipped flames, cracking through tinder-dry brush and pastures near Shawnee, presented this spectacular horizon Sunday night as volunteers frantically fought to control the threat."
Date: March 25, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0235]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mildred White, Seminole business major at Oklahoma Baptist University, tries out Dr. R. Orin Cornett's new 'electronic timer' while the professor looks on."
Date: March 8, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0348.0559]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Several years ago, a humble Opal, Ark., farm boy decided to become a preacher and devote his life to teaching others the principles of Christ. Monday, June 5, after years of working his way through schools and seminaries and establishing himself as a preacher and executive, Rev. Thomas B. Lackey will receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee."
Date: May 27, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

U.S. Highway 270

Description: Photograph of the junction of State Highways 3 and 18 with United States Highway 270 at Shawnee, OK. The view is looking west on Highland Street across Harrison Street.
Date: October 28, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

U.S. Highway 270

Description: Photograph of United States Highway 270 exits at Shawnee, OK. The view is looking west on MacArthur Avenue from Kickapoo Street. The Oklahoma Baptist University Library is behind the brick wall on the left.
Date: October 28, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0116]

Description: Caption: "Steel framework of the $1,500,000 Sylvania plant in Shawnee goes into place as workmen look toward completion of the 311-foot-long building by Jan. 1." Three men working at a construction site.
Date: August 3, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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