Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0294.0127]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Well, something like that, but the walking the girls do is incidental."
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0055]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "#8004"
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0152]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Suzie Dill, 17, of 1435 NW 35: I think there should be a mutual agreement between the teen-agers and their parents about the time they should come in."
Date: January 4, 1956
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0122]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sooner were all smiles Tuesday."
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0900]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THIS DEMOLISHED automobile carried an Oklahoma City man to his death east of the city early Tuesday morning. George O. Enger, 59, of 615 NW 52, a Tinker field industrial auditor, died in Mercy hospital two hours after his late model car was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at the Air Depot road crossing." Train Rains, Kills Cityan, State Traffic Deaths 1956 to date, 623: December, 7 1955 to date, 537; December, 6: "A Tinker field industrial auditor, George O. Enger, 59, of 625 NW 52, was killed Tuesday morning when his late model automobile was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at the Air Depot road crossing east of the city. Trooper Pat Walsh said Enger was traveling south on Air Depot road about 7:15 a.m. when his auto was struck broadside by the passenger train. The car was demolished. Trooper Walsh said it looked like it had "exploded." The automobile was knocked to the south of the tracks into a ditch and Enger's body landed 10 feet away. He was taken to Mercy hospital suffering multiple injuries and died at 9:10 a.m. The …
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0341]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lee Duroy, teacher."
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0143]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Among the Poodles which will be shown at Norman Sunday during the Town and Country Kennel club's annual classic"
Date: November 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0414.0086]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Manager for Trans World Airlines at Will Rogers field will be James B. Fennell who will move to Oklahoma City Monday from Williamsport, Pa., where he has held the same position with TWA since 1936 at Pittsburgh."
Date: January 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0299.0110]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John DeFreese, 15, of 228 NE 16: I can't speak as an expert since I haven't seen any rock and roll shows."
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0007]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Buttermilk toasts are poured by Gene Cirou for Orvin Crist (left) and Tom S. Myers to celebrate signing up 170 new chamber of commerce members last year."
Date: January 4, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0194]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Crash At Airport Is Probed. An 18year-old Oklahoma City boy was in Hillcrest hospital here Wednesday with a possible brain concussion after his car turned over on a taxiway of Tulakes airport about 11 p.m. Tuesday. He is Ronald Rogers of 5817 NW 46. Police said they want to talk further with the boy and his companions to see what they were doing at the airport. The accident wasn't reported to the police until 3 a.m. Wednesday. James Rogers, 17, brother of the injured driver, said he and Tom Hamit, 16, of 5937 N Hammond, were passengers in the car. He told officers they were driving on the runway when they saw another car appear. The youth said they drove toward the other car to tell the driver to stay away when they hit loose gravel and turned over. The two passengers carried the driver to a hanger and called their parents, they told B.E. Phillips and E.W. Stevenson investigators. The officers said they found on evidence of a second car."
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0698]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Tall And The Short in the U.S. marshal's office is now one ammunition box apart. Lee Carson, sis-feet six-inches, was sworn in as the newest deputy Monday morning."
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: Fisher, Dawes
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302B.0334]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fletcher Farrington, national president of the County Agents association, is greeted by, left to right, Gaston Franks (Wagoner, retiring president of the state association); Harry James, Oklahoma City, new state president, and Harold Casey (Guthrie, Logan County agent)."
Date: August 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0463]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0021]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Presenting a $500 check to Mrs. Walter L. Gray, right, president of Big Sisters, is Mrs. Bill F. Sharp, representing La Petite Soeur Book Club."
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: Crowder, Russ
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0297B.0503]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Few ministers in Oklahoma are better known or more beloved than Rev. Mr. Hotchkin."
Date: March 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0419]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After landing on fresh-laid paving, pilot Vernon Thorp, Yukon, left, kibitzes on engineer Henry Johnson, 5941 NW 45, center, and R. E. Bledsoe, Pryor."
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0209]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BACK ON FULL POWER was the state highway patrol's radio transmitter near Edmond Wednesday when the new tower was put into use at 2:07 p. m."
Date: January 4, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0421]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0210]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Highway Patrol State - Equipment"
Date: January 4, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0426]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gouged from the blackjack terrain of northeastern Oklahoma, the turnpike is spliced with bridges and grade separations as it crosses rural roads, rivers and creeks."
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0425]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This turnpike bridge crosses stream between Tulsa and Claremore."
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0424]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0347]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History