Portrait of Fire chief

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's canasta for Mrs. Stan West, left, Mrs. Charley Dowell, Mrs. Harry Moore and Mrs. Bobby Goad, right."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "J. W. Cole, left, and Joe Cunningham help Evelyn Faircloth at the switchboard of hotel at Biloxi."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George R. Conover, Vice-President of Richard & Conover Hardware Co.- Retiring as manager of City Branch."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert S. Kerr, U.S. Senator"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jim Owens, Oklahoma's husky end, climbs into shoulder pads for the last heavy work before the Sooners moved into New Orleans Sunday for their Sugar bowl showdown with LSU Monday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Understudy for famous Doak Walker last season, Lindell Pearson, former University of Oklahoma backfield star, has been moved opposite Walker in the starting backfield of the Detroit Lions to give the team more running and passing power on attack."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Darrel Royal, the cabey University of Oklahoma quarterback from Hollis in fine fettle as the Sooners completed Sugar bowl drills at Biloxi."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paul Ruddell, 28-year-old attorney, has been named assistant chief of the new safety responsibility section of the state public safety department."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two wives of University of Oklahoma football players now in training at Biloxi, Miss., for the Sugar Bowl game against Lousiana State University, give Sooner coach Bud Wilkinson the lowdown on how to handle their husbands during practice."

A daylight photograph of a lone man, surrounded by heavy smoke, fighting a large grass fire near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Firemen from three stations battled a 'king sized' grass fire for more than three hours northeast of Oklahoma City Wednesday before bringing it under control at 4 p.m."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This tower of the old courthouse looks like the battlement of a medieval castle."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This nine-puppy litter of Cockers at Los Angeles is up against an iron curtain of its own, as Princess, the mamma, tells them to behave themselves--it's not time for lunch yet."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Many Oklahoma county taxpayers may need a bromide Thursday when they receive their 1949 tax notices from the county treasurer."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Frank C. Laubach . . . simple writing will beat communism."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Camera angles are plentiful around a big grain mill or elevator."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "APCO TOWER: Shadows from across the street darkens the base of Apco Tower, while the sunlight bathes the upper levels in brilliant light."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Towers of the administration building soar high above the campus and make a landmark in the northwest part of the city, visible for miles around."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the new shows added to WKY-TV Thursday afternoon schedule for women viewer listenrs is "The Girls". Mrs. jan Kessenich both of oklahoma City, who are shown on a TV set as they review program material."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Stan West.. . top honors for another Sooner gridman."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Federal Building: Shooting almost straight up from the sidewalk at the base of the federal building, the camera here catches an ornamental light, an overhanging cornice and the American flag standing in a stiff wind atop the building."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's how a big city-state highway project emerges from the blueprint stage, and begins to take shape as the new bypass route on U.S. 66. In the foreground is a culvert form, and beyond that the big tread marks left by the tires of heavy earth-moving equipment trace the general path of the new road from the southeast corner of NE 63 and Eastern over the hill in the extreme background, around a bend in Deep Fork creek, and on to connect with Lincoln at about NE 50. This is the first section of the by-pass route, and construction work is being done by W. E. Logan & Sons, Muskogee contractors, whose low bid of $508,806 won the job."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Things you accept as commonplace sometimes take on unsuspected beauty. Consider, for example, that thing the photographers call "camera angles." The probing photo lens finds highlights, shadows, lines of perspective and structural patterns the eye doesn't see in its preoccupation with everything within the range of vision. This picture of the Northwest Baptist church, NW 21 and Drexel, illustrates the point. Staff photographer Joe Miller's curious lens found other stricking angle shots around the city."