Resource Type

Dedication of Shawnee Waterworks

Photograph of the Dedication of Shawnee Waterworks, Shawnee, Oklahoma Territory
Date: September 1, 1899
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Shawnee, OK

Photograph of the Dedication of Shawnee Waterworks Sept. 1, 1899.
Date: September 1, 1899
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Benson Park

Photograph of people boating in Benson Park, Shawnee, OK. Printed by Curteich, Chicago, IL, postmarked October 1, 1909.
Date: October 1, 1909
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0095]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Artist's rendition of Hilton Phillips Hotel, downtown Shawnee, circa late 1920s."
Date: April 1, 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0175]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Main Street June 1929"
Date: July 1, 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1056.0353]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Randal Pitman, Shawnee, Ok."
Date: January 1, 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0171]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Aerial view of Shawnee"
Date: September 1, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0363.0532]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All set with a background of confiscated whiskey bottles and slot machines Sheriff Elza Evans down in his office"
Date: April 1, 1937
Creator: Payne, Houstin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Santa Fe (ATSF) 792

A photograph print showing the Santa Fe (ATSF) 4003, 2-8-0 (BLW, class 789), South Shawnee, OK.
Date: June 1, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Santa Fe (ATSF) 254

A photograph print showing Santa Fe 254, 4-6-0 (class 246), So. Shawnee, OK. "copy negative made by Wood from Preston's negative"
Date: January 1, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Santa Fe (ATSF) 254

A photograph print showing Santa Fe 4051, 2-8-2 (BLW, class 4000), So. Shawnee, OK.
Date: January 1, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1277.0110]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lower right is the station at Tecumseh which will be torn down."
Date: February 1, 1942
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423B.0189]

Caption: "John McHugh . . . it's easy for a 165-pounder." Man lunges while holding weights in the air.
Date: May 1, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0290B.0297]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pfc. Patricia Hill."
Date: November 1, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0111]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shawnee Milling Co., founded in 1906, is the city's oldest major industry. Storage bins at right have a capacity of two million bushels, the annual payroll is currently $595,000 yearly, and the company provides a processing market for much Oklahoma grain."
Date: July 1, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0117]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Sylvania Electric Products plant, Shawnee's largest employer, pumps a $2.25 million annual pay roll into the local economy, and is the only industry of its kind in Oklahoma, and the firm's only plant west of the Mississippi."
Date: July 1, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.TP0392.0678]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Baptist University has rounded the curve on its long-range $5,350,000 construction program."
Date: July 1, 1954
Creator: 3rd Party
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1132.0516]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "mrs. clarence Robinson is serving her fourth consecutive term as president of the Pottawatomie County Historical society which operates the lny museum of its kind in the state."
Date: August 1, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0166]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Even the Egyptian mummy is getting his face washed and made up for the imminent opening of the Gerrer Museum and Art Gallery at St. Gregory College in Shawnee."
Date: October 1, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1408.0306]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An Oklahoma highway patrolman receives his bachelor of arts degree at Oklahoma Baptist University with an honor which shows that the patrol doesn't do things halfway-even when it comes to diplomas."
Date: June 1, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0127]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the old Federal National Bank building, Main and Union, Shawnee, which is being razed with two adjacent buildings to make space for the new J. C. Penney store."
Date: April 1, 1959
Creator: Coffey, Tom
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1128.0105]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Awarded a $200 scholarship for outstanding achievement recently was James Ricketson, Oklahoma Baptist University graduate."
Date: December 1, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1138.0191]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. E. C. Routh, former editor of The Baptist Messenger, died Thursday at a Dallas nursing home at the age of 92. His son, Dr. Porter W. Routh, Nashville, is the top executive in the Southern Baptist Convention. In this photo, he is looking at a collection of material on foreign missions at the Oklahoma Baptist Univ. library with Betty Mathis, far left, McAlester senior, and Betsy Routh, his granddaughter, a Nashville freshman."
Date: May 1, 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Baptist University
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0248.0318]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Red, White and Blue birthday greeting is received by W. E. Harber, Shawnee banker, from his daughter, Mrs. David Mayne."
Date: July 1, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History