Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0695]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Drumond is leaving after a 7-year stay to devote more time to the operation of his cafe at Eufaula"
Date: March 15, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0143.0485]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The pardon and parole board Monday scraped a long standing policy prohibiting parole parole consideration for convicts being punished for prison role violations."
Date: March 22, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0016]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 16, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0237]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Pittsburg County grand jury investigating conditions in the state prison at McAlester recommended the ouster of Clint Gladden deputy warden since early 1955."
Date: March 14, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0750]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "MISSING WITNESS in the Pittsburg County grand jury is T. L. LaDon "Tex" Cope, former guard at the state penitentiary, who can not be located."
Date: March 2, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0162]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tight-lipped convicts from the Oklahoma penitentiary paraded before a house investigation committee Tuesday night to deny emphatically any evidence of narcotics traffic behind the prison walls at McAlester."
Date: March 31, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0454]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Preslie Brown, McAlester, one of Dakil's lawyers, said that he wanted a sealed complaint in order that it would eliminate publicity and cause embarrassment to the prominent McAlester physician."
Date: March 2, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0161]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 31, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0125]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "will speak at the annual state convention"
Date: March 20, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0239.0751]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "FORMER MCALESTER STATE PRISON GUARD."
Date: March 2, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0228]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "McAlester High school athletic coach"
Date: March 14, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408B.0273]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Warden Alfred Murphy said drugs apparently were being smuggled into the prison by an inmate's wife who was receiving orders through coded messages in letters from her husband."
Date: March 24, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0377]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The L-shaped L'Ouverture Elementary-High School serves 85 percent of the Negro school population."
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0392]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Prison view from McAlester Public Library"
Date: March 30, 1983
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0012]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 13, 1992
Creator: Beckel, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pittsburg County Court House

Photograph of the front entry to the Pittsburg County Court House in McAlester, Oklahoma, including a flight of steps from the ground level and multiple sets of glass doors between stonework sculpted to look like Ionic columns.
Date: March 26, 1996
Creator: Cowen, Chester R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Elks Club

Photograph of the Elks Club, McAlester, OK. Published by the Union News Co., St. Louis, MO, March 15, 1913.
Date: March 15, 1913
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1420.0493]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Choirs and their directors will be coming from 10 or a dozen Oklahoma cities, to join the eleventh annual choir festival sponsored by the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs in Grand Avenue Methodist church in this city next Sunday, April 20."
Date: March 5, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0226]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Edward Leon "Pete" Williams slated to die in the electric chair April 4 for the kidnaping of a young Tulsa ministerial student, took another step toward death Tuesday when he was denied a federal court writ of habeas corpus."
Date: March 22, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1428.0085]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Sharon Young, whose husband Al, is serving a one-year sentence for second degree burglary, began last month in her efforts to organize a regular schedule of visits to the penitentiary for women who cannot afford the expense of the trip on their own."
Date: March 10, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1416.0243]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: March 31, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0216]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Handcuffed to two prison guards, Edward Leon "Pete" Williams enter the federal building at McAlester Tuesday in what turned out to be futile attempt to escape the electric chair. On the left is Maj. Harlan Brown, chief guard, and on the right is Lieut. Jimmie Gremen."
Date: March 22, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1376.0357]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jennifer Johnson of Edmond, who was named Mrs. America last week, passes the Mrs. Oklahoma crown to Lori Ann Wilsie of Norman."
Date: March 15, 1990
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1408.0072]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only a few loosse ends remain in the confession signed by Dr. Galbraith according to James P. Whyte, Pittsburg county attorney."
Date: March 22, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History