Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don A. Eaton. . . . Live history is better."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Left: convent day school"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Blocking a punt is the goal of every lineman, and George Boudreau, Sooner sophomore reserve guard from Purcell hopes he gets to repeat this practice block against Kansas."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Had the first half gone a couple minutes longer at Norman Saturday, George Boudreau of Purcell, third string Sooner gaurd might have counted a safety almost singlehandedly."

Photograph of completed asphalt concrete highways in Kingfisher, Craig, Latimer, Garvin, and McClain Counties, in 1949.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This solid mat of Bermuda grass on state highway 76 south of Blanchard is the right way to protect roadways."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All of Goldsby community problems are working out now in neighborhood committee where anyone can get up and have his say about the problems."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upper Left; L. A. head repainted and otherwise improved"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upper center"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above, Mrs. E. E. Hopkins worked hard in the community improvement program."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paul hayes, farmer, and L.J. James"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bermuda sod on the shoulder of a country road is being torn up here."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The living room of the same Hopkins home."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Blanchard Methodist Church -- All paid for."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "George Boudreau, football"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shown below are G. C. Byers , left , station agent and Frank Graham, president of the Purcell chamber of commerce .."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Heavy truck and 450 cases of beer were reduced to smoldering ruins shortly before midnight Monday when the carrier driven by Austin Stephen, route 5, Oklahoma City, crashed over a railing on Newcastle bridge on US 62. The truck driver, show said he went to sleep while at the wheel, was not seriously injured."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Left: The old St. Elizabeth's convent building a long time factor in the educational development of the Purcell territory."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown (home) Purcell"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bob McCurdy, Purcell, O. U. Basketball"

Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #1 and the surrounding area. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Owl Creek Ok-SCD-13-Wa.2. Site #1. Detention Reservoir. Drainage area – 500 acres. 81.0 acres in cultivation; 334.0 acres in pasture, range, woods; 85.0 acres in abandoned cropland – revegetated. Excellent cover on grassland provides silt screen for water from cultivated land. Note all cultivated fields were terraced when picture was taken. Permanent storage: 1.10. Flood storage: 4.18. Peak flow: 900 c.f.s. Release rate: 23 c.f.s. Detention reservoir protects 700 acres. Flood drainage benefit ration 66:1. Note farm ponds on main branches of drain above this reservoir. Others are planned. White arrows appearing in foreground mark each end of dam at center line. Arrows laid out & ground covered with lime slurry.”