[Photograph 2012.201.B1428.0230]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "QUICK ACTION to clean up this "jungle" was prompted by a Yukon city council measure to use that city's new weed control law. charging cost of cleaning the lot to the property owner. The out-of-town property owner said he would clear the lot, at Ash Ave. and S. H. 4, as quickly as possible, officials reported."
Date: November 8, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1428.0251]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One block south of Main St. is Yukon's shopping center, the Town Plaza, to be enlarged in 1962."
Date: December 29, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1426.0452]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The creative pleasure found in oil painting is experienced by four members of Mrs. Charles W. Paynes's YWCA-sponsored Friday morning oil painting class. L-r, Mrs. Helen Eason Taft, Mrs. Lyman Eggner, Mrs. Dan Aakhus and Mr. Aakhus."
Date: February 17, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1426.0494]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Garbed in red tank suits, charming 4 1 / 2-year-old Jenee Lambke and her attractive grandmother, Mrs. A. J. Mann, work out in the YW swimming pool downtown."
Date: February 17, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1372.0248]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These two Oklahoma City gunners are ready for firing to start in the Oklahoma Trapshooters Association meet here this weekend."
Date: June 26, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1428.0259]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Turner Funeral Home is one of new buildings dotting Yukon's eastern edge along U.S. 66."
Date: December 29, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1428.0272]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JOSEPH ZABA, Pan American Petroleum Corp., Tulsa, Okla., will be awarded the API "Certificate of Appreciation" for distinguished service to the Institute's Division of Production."
Date: 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0100]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Petroleum was in its infancy in this scene . . . bad roads, limited facilities made transportation a real problem."
Date: February 3, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0945]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Shouldn't be wanting for attention are the twins of Mrs. Jerry Cox, 608 SE 49, one of three sets of twins born in St. Anthony Hospital this weekend. The twins have seven brothers and sisters waiting at home."
Date: April 17, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0946]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There's the magic number - Mrs. James Aday, 2021 Anthony Circle, also gave birth to a set of twins this weekend in St. Anthony Hospital."
Date: April 17, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0671]

Picture of triangular and pyramid shaped building.
Date: November 17, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0661]

Caption: "Hay for Hereford herd is distributed by Jerry Hunt, left, and Bill Daniels." Two boys distributing hay.
Date: 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0985.0666]

Caption: "Nettie Meadows, left, and Sharon Jackson get baking tips from Fred Billingsley."
Date: 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0162]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Getting a rundown on the Oklahoma oil industry from Johnston Murray, former governor, are Gunter Trapp, left, and Hugo Vargas, right, petroleum engineering seniors at the Industrial University of Santandar in Colombia. The students are among a group of 14 from that country touring the Oklahoma oil industry."
Date: July 30, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1277.0558]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gen. Maxwell Taylr, left, greets his father, John Taylor, 1204 NW 48, on his arrival."
Date: June 29, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Worship Space at KOCO-TV Studio, Oklahoma City Church of the Resurrection

Rows of folding chairs, small altar at front, organ in foreground, drapery covered walls, lights hanging from ceiling. First meeting of the congregation celebrated there February 19, 1961.
Date: 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 1961 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 1961

Notes and Documents column including a document about the publication of a cumulative index for The Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a story about the name of Oklahoma, which is derived from the Choctaw words for "red people."
Date: Autumn 1961
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 22, 1961 (open access)

Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 22, 1961

Weekly newspaper from the School of Journalism of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma "published in the interest of the newspaper editors and publishers of the state" that includes industry and campus news.
Date: July 22, 1961
Creator: Ray, Grace E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, January 26, 1961 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, January 26, 1961

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 1961.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Second Battle of Cabin Creek, 1864 (open access)

The Second Battle of Cabin Creek, 1864

Article discusses the events of the second battle of Cabin Creek between Union (or Federal) and Confederate forces during the Civil War. Marvin J. Hancock describes the battle maneuvers, the leaders of the brigades, and the impact of the Confederate victory.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Hancock, Marvin J.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1961 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1961

Notes and Documents column including a document about the life and career of American Indian artist Acee Blue Eagle and the quarterly staff report of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Colonel Cooper's Civil War Report on the Battle of Round Mountain (open access)

Colonel Cooper's Civil War Report on the Battle of Round Mountain

Article summarizes and provides details for the report written by Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, a commander in the Confederate Army, about the Battle at Round Mountain fought against Muscogee (Creek) leader Opothleyahola. Muriel H. Wright provides excerpts of the report and includes maps and information about other Civil War battles.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 1961 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 1961

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1961-62 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1961-62

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History