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[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0289]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It was raining outside, but 4-H and Future Farmers of America members were sheltered under tents at the national soils contest."
Date: May 1, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0261]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boxcar Pileup---This shows some of the 21 freight cars which piled up during a derailment of a Missouri Pacific train between Sallisaw and Muldrow about 8:50 p.m. Sunday."
Date: June 26, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0859]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CUTS AND BRUISES were the only injuries the driver received when this heavy truck, loaded with 30,000 pounds of vegetables, went out of control east of Gore on U.S. 64, and plunged down a 30 foot embankment, overturning several times. Trooper Harold Ragsdale said Ben Mayhew Lindy, 22, of Jackson, Fla., was thrown from the wreckage and miraculously escaped serious injuries even though both shoes were torn off his feet."
Date: May 15, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0419.0308]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Beautiful 17-room frame home of the W. D. Mayos stands at the corner of Wheeler and Ida Streets in Sallisaw. Mrs. Mayo's father, the late W. W. Wheeler, was co-founder of the city."
Date: December 4, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0419.0307]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pioneer hardware merchant W. D. Mayo displays some of the wares he has sold in his store at Sallisaw since Sept. 13, 1899 ... the pioneer Sallisaw civic leader and businessman died at the age of 84 in a Fort Smith, Ark., hospital."
Date: December 4, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422B.0541]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "C. G. McGeehee, Sallisaw barber and staunch friend of Rep. Noble Stewart, is shown with his little Red E sack leaving the now defunct 32-year-old state engineering office at Sallisaw. During the gubernatorial campaign, McGeehee quit his barbering business to help his friend, Stewart, and the Big Red E. His car was known throughout Sequoyah County as the Edmondson traveling signboard during the campaign."
Date: November 16, 1959
Creator: Sequoyah County Times
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0689]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "There was a storm cellar at the Joe Jonson home in Gans but the family never had achence to use it. three members of the family were killed when the storm struck. Coy Lack, A Gans youngster looks at the unused cellar."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0695]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the first picture available from the Gans tornado scne where eight persons were killed an nearly a score of others injured early Tuesday morning."
Date: January 22, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0690]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This pile of rubble is all that is left of the Bill Davis home in gans, the third house struck by the Tuesday morning tornado."
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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