Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nearly 500 Negros marched peacefully through nearby Fayette Friday in a Christmas eve protest against racial discrimination."

Black silk mourning ensemble consisting of bodice and skirt. The bodice of black silk is fitted and boned, with a high, standing black silk band collar with appliqued black lace medallions. It has full-length, modified bishop sleeves that gather into the armseye. Below the gathered cap, in the portion corresponding to the upper arm, the fullness of the sleeve is controlled with top-stitched vertical tucks. From the elbow to the cuff the fullness is again released in a bishop sleeve silhouette. The sleeves gather again into wide black silk cuffs with appliqued black lace medallions and four narrow bands of black velvet ribbon. The bodice front is constructed on the lines of a bolero jacket, with a deep V-shaped opening and wide ruffled collar which is constructed of horizontally tucked black crepe-patterned silk. The released fullness of the tucking creates the ruffled finish. The ruffled portion is edged with two narrow bands of black velvet ribbon. The bodice front has a bib fill of gathered black silk and tulle net that is secured with hook-and-eyes beneath the left collar overlay. The fill area disguises the true front opening which is secured with thirteen hook-and-eyes. The main body of the bodice, …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The flight came during the governor's visit to the Oklahoma Air Guard's training exercise in Gulfport, Miss."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Todd Hildabraud / Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. / Madison MS"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tommy Gray, Seminole, senior University of Oklahoma football player, is now on his third trip to the Sooners' training camp at Biloxi, Miss., and knows his way around the Buena Vista hotel, OU's Biloxi home."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A memorial to the victor at Vicksburg."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A man who began his aviation career by making airplane models out of baseball bats - "because they were just right for the fuselage" - today is the driving force behind some 1,500 state pilots and airmen."

One preserved mussel specimen including the right valve only. The specimen exhibits an elliptical shape; moderately thick shell; white internal coloring; brown external coloring; no external sculpturing. The specimen measures between 100 - 120 mm in length and was assessed to be long dead when collected.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Joseph A. Gore speaks with a note of urgency about about jobs today."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A small college in the Deep South has for nearly a century tried to "accentuate the positive" about the experiences and backgrounds of its student body, comprised mostly of blacks from rural communities."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pvt. Charles L. Chennault, son of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the "Flying Tigers," the American volunteer Group in China embodied in the U.S. army air forces July 4, looks into the teeth of a "Tiger Shark" famous emblem of his father's daredevil command, at Keesler filed near Biloxi, Miss."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First Solo Flight in a T-2A "Buckeye" jet was made by Navy Ens. John H. Cline, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. David B. Cline, 9412 NE 11, during basic jet flight instruction at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Meridian, Miss."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joe Bateman stands in front of Marks, Miss., courthouse."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joe Bateman, civil rights worker from Duncan, Okla., was released from county jail Saturday afternoon on bond posted with money his mother sent from Duncan."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Listens to election returns by phone with his wife"

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

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "bottom row, from left) Jackson, Miss., Judge Charles Clark."

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Oklahoma former convicts, tabbed "real bad boys" by the FBI , Thursday were being held under heavy bond in Tupelo, Miss., after their capture in Corinth , Miss."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Low scores in the qualifying round of the women's Trans-Mississippi golf championship are shown above. from the left are Mary Ann Downey of Baltimore, the medalist with a 76."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Idle towboats line the banks of the Mississippi River at Greenville, Miss."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gomer Jones, left, and OU assistant, shivers in a sweat jersey."