[Photograph 2012.201.B0297B.0641]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In tradition of the playing herald angels, conductor Guy Fraser Harrison is giving his last audience before Christmas a double treat of harps."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0268]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Running through relatively undeveloped territory is part of the Southwest Expressway to be finished in late summer 1963."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0175.0170]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 14-company syndicate by John Nuveen & Co. bought a $50 million bond issue to finance construction of the Markham Ferry Dam Tuesday."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0460]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 58-year-old Oklahoma City man convicted in the pistol slaying of his first wife in 1946, Wednesday was being held for investigation in the burning death of his second wife."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0101]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Checking color slides to be used in a lecture are Dr. Jack Cogdill, head of the Oklahoma City University drama department, and Mrs. Sam Moore, a member of the Shakespeare Club program committee."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0131]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Checking work on the site of the new Westside YMCA baseball field are Wendell Killer, 2605 Adams, and Carl Smith, 2908 Holloway, president of the Y's men club."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291B.0294]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A GOOSE made the mistake of landing on a farm pond in Johnston County where Dr. A C. Hirschfield was fishing."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1169.0602]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hand made3 gifts were exchanged this week by leaders and mothers of Sixth District Camp Fire Girls and Bluebirds at a Christmas party in the May SAvenue Methodist Church."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413B.0387]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Carlos Madrazo, district governor of the clubs for one section of the Philippines and president of the San Carlos City Y's Men's Club, visited Oklahoma City Thursday on a 90-day tour of the United States and Canada to "know how America lives."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0466]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0486]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The tallest animal in the world is also the quietest."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0467]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0485]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The tallest animal in the world is also the quietest."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0452]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1136.0325]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In tradition of the harp playing herald angels, conductor Guy Fraser Harrison is giving his last audience before Christmas a double treat of harps."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1136.0329]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1148.0027]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heeding the rare invitation of the Chamber of Commerce for members' wives to attend a forum luncheon, the women put on their prettiest bib and tucker and turned out in large groups."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0107]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Once there was a proposal that Oklahoma City get a new federal building that would duplicate the present one. What it would have looked like is shown in the composite picture at right dreamed up in 1936. But, 25 years later when the new building became a reality, the 1961 photo below shows there was little resemblance between today's actual new building and yeasterday's proposed federal court house."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.11023]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of large business district with large amount of multi-story buildings, "Oklahoma Mortgage" sign of building at bottom left, silo at top left, church at middle right, "Willmont Hotel" at bottom right, and more)"
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2440]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty years ago today it all happened at a place called Pearl Harbor, Chief Petty Officer Raymond L. West, Oklahoma City naval reservist, tells his 5-year-old son Ronnie. The naval reserve was to mark the anniversary Thursday noon when Joe Lawter, Central High School principal and only known local survivor of the battleship Oklahoma, laid a wreath at the anchor in Civic Center."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8299]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bear Moving time at the Lincoln Park zoo has Homer Spikes, assistant zoo foreman, trying to convince a Sloth bear it should enter a cage. Two Sloths, Big Boy and Baby, and two Grizzlies, Running Bear and White Dove, had been living together since they were babies. But the bears were getting fuzzy with each other, so zoo keepers gave the Grizzlies a home of their own and moved the Sloths into their own private cage."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2437]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a sailor holding his son at the USS Oklahoma Anchor Memorial. Backside typing: "Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Raymond L. West and son Ronnie, 5 yrs. Chief West is a member of C. B. Div. 8-14, U. S. Naval Reserve.")"
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1366.0787]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jerry Whitlock "not worried about the future."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0290B.0274]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Working on Big Sisters Organization includes maintaining a "clothing room" which has various items of clothing which will be adapted for use by little sisters being helped by the club."
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History