Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John d. Groendyke state wildlife commission"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "SUMMER'S HERE, at least for members of the U. S. Army in Oklahoma City."

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 838, 4-6-2 (Alco/Schenectady), Enid, OK.

A photograph negative showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 955, 4-6-2 (Alco/Brooks, class P-40), Enid, OK.

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 1753, 2-8-0 (BLW), Enid, OK.

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 2001, 2-8-0 (Alco/Brooks), Enid, OK.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Surrounded by quilts, quilt blocks and pattern books, Patty Russell demonstrates free-hand machine quilting."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "J.W. Stone"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This project, "Cherokee Terrance," which will house 90 families, is rapidly taking form at Enid."

Caption: "Capt. Norman Howell, seated in his ugly Quicking, begins his record-breaking flight Thursday morning from Enid's Woodring Municipal Airport."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kenneth Simpson, Enid, former city commissioner, now an actor."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kenneth Simpson, Enid, former city commissioner, now an actor."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At age 71, Enid's Kenneth Simpson still has ambitions of fulfilling a 60-year-old dream of doing a movie in Hollywood. He has played roles in several television shows and short films. He appeared on NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Rev. Don Wolf hopes that by holding monthly masses in Spanish he can encourage Enid area Hispanics, many of whom understand little English, to become a part of his parish."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Presenting five color televisions and sets of baggage to the Enid state School for the Mentally Retarded is Mrs. Charles E. David, member of the Bonne Heure Club."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Fred Lewis, Enid, talks shop with Joe Ferguson of Shreveport after winning her fourth women's singles championship here Sunday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The public hearing in Woodward last month drew the largest crowd (24) of the three meetings."

Photograph is of a fireman crouched behind a metal rail spraying an open fire hose on a smoldering hole in a multiple story brick building. Many burnt bricks are strewn across the open area between the fireman and the remaining damaged building. Caption: "Thousands or persons dressed in their Sunday best watched Sunday while fire destroyed a brick building which housed Enid's largest theater and caused heavy damage to an adjacent law office."

Photograph is of three men spraying two open water hoses on a smoldering hole in the side of a building on a main street. Smoke is still rising from the remaining part of the structure. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Enid theater fire continued to smolder Monday. The blaze destroyed the 38 year old Esquire Theater building and heavily damaged an adjoining law office in downtown Enid after flames broke out about noon Sunday. Fire Marshal Kenneth Olson and other investigators were probing the ruins Monday in an attempt to determine cause of the blaze. No estimate of damage had been made."

Scan of a postcard showing a snowy day in Lahoma, OK.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Robert Bartunek pours wine for Jim Hollberg of Enid while Bartunek's wife Jean looks on."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The first two weeks of February are always busy ones for Henry B. Bass as might be expected of a nationally known authority on Abraham Lincoln."