[Photograph 2012.201.b1426.0485]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Generations of YWCA service were depicted Monday night at the YW's combined annual membership meeting and birthday celebration. Teen member Phyllis Morris, 435 SE 27, and charter member Mrs. J. Chester Swanson, 229 NW 33, dressed to represent bygone YW years, hold a 100-year birthday cake served at a reception following the meeting."
Date: January 31, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0282]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wheat, Oklahoma"
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0240]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Attending the National Research club's guest day tea Thursday were / left to right / Mrs. S. W. Oliver, OKC / president of the club and hostess at the tea; / Mrs. Johnston Murray, OKC / who was guest speaker at the event; / Mrs. Dan Nelson OKC / corresponding secretary, / and Mrs. R. C. Mills, OKC treasurer."
Date: February 24, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0172]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Willie Murray, left, leans across a lawyer to whisper to her estranged husband."
Date: December 2, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0147]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0156]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0164]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Food for busy people was provided Monday noon in the state treasurer's office during inauguration festivities. Preparing to lunch on fried chicken are the Johnston Murrays, center, who moved out of the governor's mansion Monday turning over the state's first family role to Gov. Raymond Gary, right, and his wife, left."
Date: January 10, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0158]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Johnston Murray ... Eddie Higgins didn't utter a word when charged. (Former governor told legislative investigators Wednesday he once heard his press secretary, Eddie Higgins, accused of accepting an election bribe but made no effort to learn if it were true.)"
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0157]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0160]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0166]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0159]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0152]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0182]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gov. Murray makes his final speech to the legislature."
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0168]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Former Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray"
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Elk City St. Michael's Episcopal Church

Wood frame single story church with center door at front, and concrete front stoop. St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Elk City, closed 1988.
Date: 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Guthrie, from Public Land to Private Property (open access)

Guthrie, from Public Land to Private Property

Article discusses the rush of homesteaders claiming land on the original townsite of Guthrie and the legal difficulties that followed. Dr. B. B. Chapman examines documentation of the events at the turn of the nineteenth century to construct a picture of early Guthrie.
Date: Spring 1955
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, The Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending October 27, 1955 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, The Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending October 27, 1955

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 27, 1955.
Date: Winter 1955
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 41, No. 181, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1955 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 41, No. 181, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1955

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 2, 1955
Creator: Childs, Mary Lyle
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1955 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1955

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 6, 1955
Creator: Meek, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Billy Bowlegs (open access)

Billy Bowlegs

Article describes the life and personality of Billy Bowlegs, Seminole chief and warrior who fought against the encroachment of white settlers in the Seminole Wars. Carolyn Thomas Foreman explores the legacy of the man through accounts and documentation from the nineteenth century.
Date: Winter 1955
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Missions of the Society of Friends Among the Indian Tribes of the Sac and Fox Agency (open access)

Missions of the Society of Friends Among the Indian Tribes of the Sac and Fox Agency

Article describes the missions established by the Quakers, also known as the Society of Friends, among the Sac & Fox, Shawnee, Iowa, and Kickapoo tribes. Hobert D. Ragland describes which missionaries worked with which missions, and what kind of educational opportunities they provided.
Date: Summer 1955
Creator: Ragland, Hobert D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 59, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1955 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 59, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1955

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 1, 1955
Creator: Meek, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 1955 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 1955

Notes and Documents column including documents about the Irving Tour of 1955, General Mathew Arbuckle's Grave and other historical markers, the tour of the Old Butterfield Overland Mail Route, the passing of Mrs. Reese Kincaide, restoration of the home of a Chickasaw governor, correspondence, and a list of recent accessions to the OHS library.
Date: Autumn 1955
Creator: Bass, Henry B.; Runyan, Alice; Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975; Oneal, Ben G.; Estill-Harbour, Emma & Mitchell, Edith
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History