Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. James F. Kirkendall, Missionary"

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

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

A glass slide showing a photograph of a sheikh overseeing a field of reapers, near Sidon, Lebanon. On the frame of the slide is printed "T.H. McAllister, Manufacturing Optician, 49 Nassau Street, New York. On the reverse, the slide is numbered No. 6364.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "STILL CHECKING on chickens is H.G. Ware, center, onetime Oklahoma State university extension poultry man, who is now in Lebanon."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jim and Leola Ragland, 33-year Southern Baptist missionaries, remembered difficult yet fulfilling times as they left Lebanon aboard a passenger ship headed to Cyprus in early March. The Raglands, founders of the Beirut Baptist School in west Beirut, were obeying a U.S. government order forcing all Americans out of Lebanon."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma natives and Southern Baptist missionaries Jim and Leola Ragland boarded a boat in the east Beirut harbor after more than three weeks of saying goodbyes to Lebanese friends and co-workers, both Christians and Muslims. "How do you walk away from somebody you've known for 30 years?" said Ragland, weeping. "The country needs us. The Lebanese need our school, our radio ministries, the books we're writing."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Missionaries to the Arab world often find their work severly handicapped by acts of persons or government back in the "Christian" United States."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's not uncommon for Jim Ragland to interrupt his work to listen to the news. The Beirut Baptist School principal says at times he does it on the half-hour. His students and staff come from throughout the city where bombings have been an almost daily occurence for 10 years."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Southern Baptist Missionaries Jim and Leola Ragland, shown here in a 1984 photo at the Beirut Baptist School, were having a daily devotional together when the news came that the U.S. government had ordered that all Americans leave Lebanon. Ragland, who is principal at the school, said "we just sat there and wept together ... a trying time for us." They hope peace is restored and that they will be able to go back someday. He is an Ada, Okla., native, and Mrs. Ragland is from Duncan."

A glass slide of a family in Arabic dress on a donkey cart in Beirut, Lebanon.., arabic dress. The photograph was taken by French photographer Felix Bonfils. When Bonfils and his family moved to Beirut in 1867, they opened a photographic studio called "Maison Bonfils."

A glass slide showing a photograph of the Cedars of Lebanon, in the country of Lebanon. The photograph is numbered No. 395, and was likely taken by a member of the American Colony, in Jerusalem.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Payments into Lebanon's fledgling Social Security fund already are building a new national university, Ahmend Turk the fund's financial director, said Thursday."

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

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

A glass slide of Prince Mere Hemcy (Arab). The emulsion is damaged and cracked. On the slide frame is printed the name "Dr. L. B. Clifton, Dayton, Ohio" and the corporate name "Crystal Slide Co."