Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0150.0027]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LAWTON - "I've never seen anything like it. The whole hillside is covered with people."
Date: April 1, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0150.0026]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LOOKING AT EASTER Pageant setting, which drew thousands of worshipers to the Wichita Mountains near Lawton Saturday night, is young James Tonn, Houston, Texas."
Date: 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0150.0023]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crowds began gathering early Saturday afternoon to line the mountainside at the site of the Wichita Mountains Easter pageant."
Date: 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0540]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A lone garden club member walks along expressway grading where 150 redbud trees have been bulldozed down."
Date: August 16, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0262.0423]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Inspecting the new historical marker outside to the Old Post Headquarters at Fort Sill."
Date: 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0397]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Carol Ann Greenwood, Lawton High School junior, was named Friday a national winner in the " Ability Counts" essay contest."
Date: April 17, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0267.0893]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Revisiting old haunts this week were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holt of Lawton who drove in the gate of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge to become 1963's "one millionth" visitors."
Date: 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0189]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. James Black . . . Mother of Year."
Date: April 27, 1960
Creator: Fisher, Dawes
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0119.0357]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 21, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0132]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: February 28, 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0186]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. James Black, Oklahoma's "Mother of the Year" for 1960 is 4 feet 10 inches tall, up to her ears in civic activities and really only proud of one thing - her daughters."
Date: 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0134]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Local, state and federal officials are shown inspecting the new Clarence L. Davis student union building at Cameron college."
Date: 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0345]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "MOST OF THE LITTLE PLANES we had, we wired up with bailing wire!"
Date: September 19, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0119A.0666]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Talk about quarterbacks continues to be conversation piece after Oklahoma made a successful Big Eight debut by brushing aside Kansas, which is big and slow and appears to have run out of football players of conference caliber."
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416.0135]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Among those working on arrangements for the Oklahoma County Women's Democratic Club; annual registration tea are Mrs. Bertrude Fields, first vice-president of the club; Mrs. Louis C. Williams, president, and Mrs. George Pednell Jr., publicity chairman."
Date: February 20, 1962
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0497]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Craning her neck to talk to cadets Gary Snyder and Mike Meyer is Michael Pliner, the pilot's "moral officer."
Date: July 19, 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0412

Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a burning landscape. Caption: "Billowing smoke from a raging prairie fire in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge near Lawton Thursday was visible more than 30 miles away."
Date: August 2, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0573]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bronze Star with "V" device for valor is presented by Maj. Gen. Charles P. Brown, Ft. Sill commander, to Lt. Terrence L. Cooper during ceremonies at Ft. Sill."
Date: September 18, 1969
Creator: United States. Army.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1095]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crumpled remains of helicopter lie in thicket on Fort Sill. Two Oklahoma Army National Guardsman, members of the 45th Artillery Group, were injured Thursday when the helicopter in which they were riding crashed at Camp Eagle located at Fort Sill. The injured were Capt. James L. Smith, Tulsa, and SSG Donald L. Short, Hennessey. Smith was reported in satisfactory condition at Reynolds Army Hospital at Fort Sill with pelvic and possible back injuries. Short was reported in serious condition with back and chest injuries. The two guardsmen, on two weeks active duty for training, had just taken off from the Camp Eagle headquarters building helipad to inspect a training site for Friday when their helicopter came down through trees about 150 yards south of the building. Ambulance were on the scene within minutes after the 2:10 p.m. crash and had the pair en route to Reynolds on main post, Fort Sill. The helicopter, a small observation-type OH-23B with a bubble cockpit, landed on its right side after tearing through tree limbs. The landing skids on the helicopter were broken off , and the main rotor blade was sheared …
Date: August 2, 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415.0043]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 12, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0133]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The ingenuity of Fort Sill specialist has given the communications-electronics department at the U. S. Army Artillery and Missile School an ingenious device for teaching officers how an electronic brain works."
Date: November 20, 1961
Creator: SGT Leroy Massie
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Lawton Department Store Fire]

Photograph taken during daylight of black smoke billowing from building fire.Caption: "Black smoke billows hundreds of feet high from Lawton department store fire."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Routh, Audrey
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0950]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Col Stanley J. Cherubin has been appointed Staff Judge Advocate of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, USAAMC,Col Cherubin will take over the office of retiring Col. Julian Z. Weisler."
Date: April 25, 1962
Creator: Hysaw, James H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fire truck covered in ice, Lawton, Oklahoma

Photograph taken at night of firetruck covered with ice. Caption: "Freezing temperatures added to the difficulty of fighting a fire in the Amvets Club in Lawton Thursday night."
Date: January 19, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History