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[Photograph 2012.201.B1116.0405]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In 1969, George Shirk asked Ruth to Prepare nominations of historic sites in Oklahoma for the National Register of Historic Places."
Date: June 18, 1988
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Watonga's Day in the Sun or Trickster Comes to Town

Description: Article describes the events surrounding the 1941 Cheyenne protest at the Watonga Post Office, including documentation of the event from various perspectives. The protest against cultural misrepresentation in the town mural was painted in a humorous light at the time, and illustrated the state of Indian-white relations in Oklahoma on a small-scale.
Date: Winter 1988
Creator: Silberman, Arthur
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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