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[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0328]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Lorvicy Cokely, who has taken in washings, worked in factories and run a private taxi business to give seven children their education, realized a long cherished dream this week when her youngest daughter, Verena Fordina, 17 years old, was graduated from Capitol Hill senior high school."
Date: June 4, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0358.0120]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tomatoes, Potatoes--Transplanting of 125,000 sweet potato plants and 200,000 tomato vines from these seed beds at Fair park to relief gardens in the central part of the state will stat Thursday."
Date: June 4, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0119.0028]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A black and white party handkerchief sent Mrs. Wallis Warfield, now the duchess of Windsor, brought a gracious "thank you" note to Mrs. Lee M. Bush."
Date: June 4, 1937
Creator: Turner, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1004.0371]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HE LIKES TO EAT, TOO-When the photographer visited the Lincoln park zoo Saturday to picture the new pits for the lions and tigers."
Date: June 4, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0073]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Although it makes an attractive sight, most people will not get first hand this view of OK City's skyline, showing the First National and Ramsey Tower buildings in the background and the new auditorium, city hall and courthouse in the foreground."
Date: June 4, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7963]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the neatest tricks in drilling an oil well lies in known when to quit. You don't just go on drilling until a column of black gold comes roaring up the hole and shoots over the crown block. A driller has to know the exact moment when his bit bores into the producing sand, transforming what was until that moment just a deep hole in the ground into an oil well. And ascertaining this moment is made no simpler by v… more
Date: June 4, 1936
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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