[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0422]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: June 26, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1253.0837]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nicky Snow was told about the planned kidnapping of Bing Crosby's wife by Wilburn E. Davison and another man."
Date: June 15, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0715]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage of the home of Mrs. Susie Self, 79 year old mother of the Bowlegs Baptist pastor, Rev Jake Self."
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0710]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Garage adjacent the Bowlegs Methodist church collapsed as the church fell upon it."
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0714]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Workmen on a remodleing job in a second floor assembly room escaped injury although the wall of the room below was blown away."
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1044.0138]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sitting the rear of the bus home owned by Rudolph are his daughter,Sharon Ann,11,and Karaetta,5,Clyde's little girl."
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1044.0139]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THERE'S EVEN SOME UNITY OF CLOTHING in the four Payne brothers."
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1054.0063]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1044.0137]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "He sits on a bunk in his own bus as another daughter,Bettyjo,combs her freshly shampooed hair while sitting on the double bed at rear of the bus,next seats were placed for the table at right,in a plan used on all five of the family buses."
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1044.0136]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mom and Pop Payne,like their four sons,have a home in Konawa but use it very little because they follow a migrant labor circuit from Oklahoma to Oregon."
Date: 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0709]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An over turned piano lay in the wreckage of the Bowlegs Methodist church after tornadic wins swept through the town Monday morning."
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0713]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Church Steeple and sign rest on top of house of Mrs. J. A. Crow, at left, Back part of house was blown away in the Bowlegs storm, the house is off the foundation."
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0707]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wrecked by a tornado in Bowlegs Monday morning was the home of Mrs. helen Gills, 24, only one of the eight injured who was hospitalized, at left, her mother Mrs. Sid Hudson, 54, and her sister mrs. Kathryn Butler, 19 look over the debris."
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0711]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 17, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1138.0469]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "M. E. Ruble, Wewoka businessman, builds up the pressure in his tank before he takes his craft to the water."
Date: 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0206]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss Rosalie Roff, Wewoka, University of Oklahoma senior, won the Goodner Van scholarship for 1957-58 Worth $200, it's given to the outstanding graduating senior in dietetics in Oklahoma."
Date: February 21, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1287.0673]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John Tiger"
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1283.0817]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Assisting with the Oklahoma Oil bowl football squad is Noel Thomason, head coach at Wewoka high school"
Date: August 22, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Wewoka Creek

Photograph of Big Wewoka Creek flood detention site No. 29. Looking south toward dam. Flood detention reservoir in background. Water in permanent pool covers 18 surface acres.
Date: March 24, 1958
Creator: Abel, D. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gully Control

Photograph of looking south on diversion terrace constructed above severely gullied area.
Date: March 7, 1958
Creator: Eaton, J. L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gully Control

Photograph of gullies to be filled in and planted to Bermuda grass in the spring of 1958.
Date: 1958-01-XX
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Wewoka Creek Detention Site No. 29

Photograph of Big Wewoka Creek flood detention site No. 29. Looking east toward dam.
Date: March 24, 1958
Creator: Abel, D. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Erosion Control on Backside of Dam

Photograph of tilling of the 2:1 back slope of dam to prepare it for the sprigging of Bermuda grass. This dam is at Site 22, Big Wewoka Creek watershed and was built as a joint project between the State Game and Fish Commission and the Soil Conservation Service.
Date: September 9, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Planting Back Slope of Big Wewoka Creek WP Project

Photograph of trucks loaded with Bermuda grass roots and fertilizer. One row and two row planters planting back slope and flat area back of dam on Site 29.
Date: April 16, 1958
Creator: Abel, D. G.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History