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An aircraft flies over a flipped plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "INSTANT NOSE JOB was performed by a wind gust Thursday on this Cessna 172 aircraft parked at Oklahoma City's Expressway Junction Airpark. Owned by Gerald Nelson, operator of a Guthrie Flying service, the craft had been flown in by Bruce McCoy, Guthrie student pilot, and was parked and unattended when a small, gusty whirlwind flipped it over. No other planes were damaged."
Date: March 28, 1969
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Plane wreckage in a open field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 41-year-old Bethany pilot, who celebrated his birthday Sunday, was in satisfactory condition at Baptist Hospital Monday after surviving a crash Sunday in his single-engine aircraft. A hospital spokeman said John C. Orf, 7609 NW 29, a former Oklahoma City policeman, was improving. Orf was pulled from the burning wreckage by two men, David Dawkin, 29-year-old former air force medic and a Baptist Hospital emergency room orderly, and Jack Keller, 7013 NW 21, a city businessman."
Date: April 6, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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A group of people looking an airplane that sets with its propeller in the dirt and its tail in the sky. One man is peering into the cockpit. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A LANDING."
Date: August 21, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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An airplane setting on one wheel and its propeller. The cabin door on the pilot's side is open. The windshield is in tact and three bystanders are looking through it. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Plane Takes Punch on Nose."
Date: August 21, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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An Oklahoma Highway Patrolman rests his foot on a tree limb as he watches the smoke rise from the carcass of the airplane that crashed into the wooded area. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A state trooper examines wreckage of fatal airplane crash near Purcell."
Date: May 5, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Parts of a broken apart plane in a ravine. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 5, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Smoldering remains of an airplane that crashed into a wooded hillside. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheared prop and charred metal scar woods southeast of Purcell."
Date: May 5, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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A airplane in a heap. It looks like it crashed into a corn or milo field some time ago. There are plants growing up through the wreckage. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PARTS OF PLANE."
Date: November 6, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken during daylight of two boys posing with three dogs. Caption: "Richard Copas, 15, left and Donald Douglas, 14, make friends with the stray dogs at the Tallahassee, Florida Criswall Home"
Date: November 21, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph of a man talking to two people sitting on a couch with a dog. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dobbs tell of harrowing experience . Dogs at bottom of picture, tried to warn them of intruder."
Date: December 11, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph of dog being groomed. Caption: "Dog fanciers will have a big weekend in Oklahoma City, with two shows scheduled Friday night and another planned Saturday."
Date: November 1, 1969
Creator: Fisher, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph is a close up of a man in a baseball jersey and hat with a bat held up to swing at a ball. Caption: "OSU's Terry Edwards"
Date: April 10, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph is of a man on a golf course jumping in the air with his golf club over his head. Caption: "VICTORY LEAP by Sammy Ellis of the Chicago White Sox signifies his triumph in the Baseball Players Golf Tournament."
Date: February 12, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph is a head shot of a man wearing a button down shirt, jacket, and tie. Caption: "Perkins Journal editor Bob Evans sympathized with Bucher, but added that navy rules are made to be followed."
Date: January 24, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "NO-NONSENSE GUARD at the Oklahoma City convention center site was on duty Friday, despite the holiday for other project workers." Image is of a German Sheppard dog in profile as the dog stands on the other side of a chain link fence. A sign reads "Beware K9 dog" above the fence.
Date: December 26, 1969
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a burning building. Caption: "Thousands of persons dressed in their Sunday best watched Sunday while fire destroyed a brick building which housed Enid's largest theater and caused heavy damage to an adjacent law office."
Date: March 9, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken during daylight of the charred wreckage of a burned building and gas pumps. Caption: "Jackson County Landmark established in 1890 - the Martha Mercantile Store - was destroyed by fire Wednesday after the building apparently was struck by a bolt of lighting. The longtime general merchandise store, which had added a gas station for modern times, was owned by Mrs. C. H. Doughty. She estimated loss at $25,000."
Date: May 15, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Six fire fighters putting out fire daytime by two automobiles. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen fight the auto parts store blaze."
Date: August 14, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph is of Reeves Food Store. Two firemen are fully present. One is spraying a hose on the fire and the other is walking towards the store. The roof, windows and doors have been destroyed by the fire. Burnt bricks and rubble are piled in front of the structure on the street. Caption: "Rush Springs fire is battled."
Date: September 16, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History