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[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0077]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There will be freaks at the Oklahoma State Fair, September 25 to October 3, of course - but this isn't one of them."
Date: September 10, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0088]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crowded conditions in Oklahoma City's public schools are causing scenes like this as the new term begins."
Date: September 12, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0141]

Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0415]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Earl Dunn, 1419 NW 14, makes an adjustment on her "merry-go-round" entered in the state fair decorated cake contest, while looking on hungrily is her daughter, Pamela, 41/2 whom Mrs. Dunn dubs her "official pot licker."
Date: September 23, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0089]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A New High Act from Europe, the Alcidos, are here with the "Fair Follies of '56" as a replacement for Franz W. Stasch, who was killed Labor Day before a Minnesota State fair crowd."
Date: September 24, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0262]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New Buildings at State Fairgrounds."
Date: September 29, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0048]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Ruth Crisler points out one of her paintings hanging in the Oklahoma Historical society's museum."
Date: September 3, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0068]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom Weaver, below, makes an adjustment on one of the pogo-stilts used by him and his partner, Jerry Gaffney, above"
Date: September 27, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1182]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There are judging jobs that fall entirely to women at the Oklahoma County fair which their men folks could do better, even though they don't know the fine points of producing a cake. Here is Mrs. Tom Chesser of Jones, in charge of the pastry department at the fair. Winning entries will be kept here for the state fair."
Date: September 19, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0441]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Walker Cuppers Billy Joe Patton (left) of Morganton, N. C., and Charles R. Coe, defending National Amateur champion, left Oklahoma City early Thursday for Colorado Springs and next week's championship tournament."
Date: September 8, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0233]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With entertain at a registration coffee Monday in the home of Mrs. Joseph W. Kelso, 319 NW 18."
Date: September 19, 1957
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0788]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: September 11, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0139]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DEATH CAR is viewed by curious spectators at Northwest highway and Portland Wednesday night after a two-car crash which killed Charlotte Mo Henry, about 40, of 3320 N Robinson. She was a passenger in the car above which was driven by Robert Glenn Cody, 40 of 4216 NW 28. Cody and two persons in the other car, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Culbertson, were hurt. Culbertson car exploded in flames."
Date: September 11, 1957
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0586]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma State Fair Exhibits 1959"
Date: September 28, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0090]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "She's lovely enough to eat, and that costume represents a gum drop in the fairyland story which closes the "Fair Follies of '53," which will appear before the grandstand at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: September 10, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0381]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "BEST SMILE forward is exhibited by Mrs. Virginia Chinnes, of 613 Villa dr., Norman, as three " Mrs. U. S. Navy" judges give her the once over ."
Date: September 13, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0431]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Former cityan Zell Eaton, left, and Lincoln park pro U. C. Ferguson talk over old times as both await the opening of the Oklahoma City Open golf tournament at Twin Hills."
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0229]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Keating Donahoe's dainty porcelain figure carries a ruffled umbrella and wars ruby and emerald jewelry."
Date: September 29, 1952
Creator: Peterson, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0568]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma State Fair Exhibits 1956"
Date: September 24, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0330]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BEAUX ARTS BALL DATE is not until November 6, but chairman are busy with plans for the affair which will be at the Oklahoma City Country club."
Date: September 9, 1959
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0019]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: September 4, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0101]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The second annual Nichols Hills Amateur horse show will be held Sunday, September 20. . . . It will be an afternoon affair and will be held in the ring at the Nichols Hills stables, Wilshire and N May. . . . the event is sponsored by a group of local horsemen and is being primarily for amateur and juvenile riders. . . . Miss Frances Duke is general chairman of the show. . . . Mrs. Lee Diffendaffer will serve as co - chairman of the event. . . ."
Date: September 4, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0451]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lt. Gen. B. W. Chidlaw, left, commanding general of the air material common, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, bid goodbye to Maj. Gen. F. S. Borum, commanding general of the Oklahoma City air material area, at 9:30 AM Friday after an inspection was described as a routine check of maintenance and supply facilities at Tinker."
Date: September 1, 1950
Creator: Air Force
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0125]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Kenneth Coggins, 16, of 2005 NW 33, has really been getting the breaks--but not the happy kind."
Date: September 28, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History