[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0278]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wheat, Perry Sober, Shattuck, Okla."
Date: May 27, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0362.0087]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gene Littler . . . amateur golf's new champion."
Date: September 19, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0246]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 17, 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0247]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 25, 1953
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0207]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Left to right, Mrs. Johnston Murray, Mrs. Mary Evans / Great-grand-mother-85 yrs. old., / Peggy Jean Henderson, Mrs. Regina Henderson / Peggy Jean's mother, / Mrs. Anna Rigsby / Peggy Jean's grandmother."
Date: April 2, 1953
Creator: Gaffney, Larry
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0213]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Johnston Murray / right, / Oklahoma's first lady, is an honorary member."
Date: February 16, 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0230]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Johnston Murray was waiting at the door, but cold weather made it easy for the hand counter she's holding."
Date: January 15, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0219]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE SEASON'S GUEST NO. 5,000 at the governor's mansion was twins."
Date: March 12, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0223]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Who is advising whom ? That's what the photographer wanted to know Wednesday night."
Date: 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0251]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the hand of welcome that has been extended to 45,206 visitors at the governor's mansion."
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0227]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "That's when the third season of weekly receptions opens at the governor's mansion."
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0174]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gov. and Willie Murray ... these were happier days."
Date: May 4, 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0355]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Special awards for helping promote soil conservation work in the state presented."
Date: January 11, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1072.0104]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THREE PROMINENT PHYSICIANS hold a non-medical consultation with Jesse L. Rader, left, University of Oklahoma librarian, as they examine some of the material in the OU medical archives which has been collected in the current drive by the Oklahoma Medical association. With Rader, left to right, are Dr. L. J. Moorman, Oklahoma City, author of "Pioneer Doctor"; Dr. Henry R. Viets, Boston Mass.,chrirman of the American Medical association's scientific assembly and head of the Boston medical library and Dr. charles Smith, president of cleveland-McClain County medical society."
Date: November 10, 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fishertown (open access)

Fishertown

Article describes the establishment of Fishertown, a village in the Creek Nation that cropped up near North Fork Town in the nineteenth century. Carolyn Thomas Foreman traces the genealogy of the Fisher family who founded the town, and describes its early growth and development.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn 1953 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn 1953

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grant Foreman (open access)

Grant Foreman

Article provides a timeline of the work of Dr. Grant Foreman, valued member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, writer, researcher, and lawyer.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Clark, Stanley
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 1953 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 1953

Notes and Documents column including a tribute to Dr. Grant Foreman, a transcribed manuscript about the trail in Ottawa County and the Quapaw Reservation, notes about the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and a list of recent accessions in the Oklahoma Historical Society Library.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Johnson-Westbrook, Harriette; Kelley, E. H.; Harris, Walter A. & Mitchell, Edith
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Confederate Relations with the Five Civilized Tribes, Part II (open access)

Confederate Relations with the Five Civilized Tribes, Part II

Article continues the discussion of treaties and alliances the Confederate States made with the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations during the Civil War. In this second part of the article, Ohland Morton discusses the Civil War skirmishes and the leadership of Stand Watie after the creation of these treaties.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Morton, Ohland
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 1953 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 1953

Notes and Documents column including documents about reports from Fort Gibson in the nineteenth century, a correction for the article "The March of the First Dragoons from Jefferson Barracks," notes about the legacy of Sam Houston, and plans announced by William E. Bittle to conduct a linguistic survey of American Indian languages in Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 1953
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967 & Bittle, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Winter 1953-54 (open access)

Necrology, Winter 1953-54

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including lawyer and Oklahoma legislator J. Elmer Wyand and school board member and Chickasaw Nation representative Hon. Joe Newberry.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Witchell, B. E. & Reubin, Carl
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Thursday, July 23, 1953 (open access)

Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Thursday, July 23, 1953

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on Thursday, July 23, 1953.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Smoked Meat Rebellion" (open access)

"The Smoked Meat Rebellion"

Article explores crime on the Oklahoma frontier in the early 1900s, referencing a particular instance of someone stealing a thousand pounds of smoked bacon, which earned the following events the name the "Smoked Meat Rebellion," also known as the Crazy Snake Rebellion. Mel H. Bolster discusses the interaction of Creeks, Creek freedmen, and the local law enforcement during these events.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Bolster, Mel H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 116, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 18, 1953 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 116, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 18, 1953

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: March 18, 1953
Creator: Adler, Dot
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History