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[2012.201.B0051.0184]
Military plane crash landing at Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Plane Flies Here for Crash Landing. A Tennessee Air National Guard C-97 transport crash landed at Tinker Air Force Base Tuesday. The six-man crew scrambled safely out of the plane after it stopped skidding along one of the field`s secondary runways. Maj. John L. Wade, 38, Murfreesboro, Tenn., commanded the plane that landed on the runway, partially covered with foam by the Tinker crash-rescue crew. Shortly after taking off from Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark., around 10 a.m. the crew learned the the right landing gear was not operating properly. In landing at Tinker, Wade gently let the left gear hit ground first ... then the nose wheel. Smoke puffed out as the wheels touched down. Wade held the hanging right wheel off the ground as long as possible. Then he let it lightly touch the runway. For nearly 2,500 feet the plane, with all wheels on the ground, rolled down the runway in a normal manner as crash trucks and ambulances raced toward it. Suddenly, the right gear crumpled. The right wing fell down. A propeller blade was …
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0185]
Officials approaching a military plane to find out what when wrong. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHY? Military Air Transport Service Wednesday wanted to know why this C-97 had landing gear troubles Tuesday threatening the lives of the six-man crew. The pilot executed what the Air Force called "a beautiful landing" in spite of the difficulty. The crew walked away unharmed. Tinker`s crash crews had spread foam on the runways in an attempt to stall a fire on the forced crash-landing."
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0186]
U. S. Air Guard plane on the runway. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
2012.201.B0097.0402
Photograph of a child sitting on a man's lap. Caption: "Young David Thomas Brown, who will be all of two years old Christmas day, and Lloyd Booth Jr., oldest of the 19 Oklahoma City Times Christmas babies, who will be 16 years old, had a lot in common, surprisingly enough, when they met to talk over the matter of what they want for Christmas."
Date:
December 9, 1937
Creator:
Hart, Alphia O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0235.0605]
Photograph of man displaying Kachina dolls. Caption: "Bill Conner displays part of his collection of Hopi Kachina dolls."
Date:
September 9, 1971
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0317.0328]
Photograph is of two men wearing baseball uniforms. One man is holding a bat with both hands. Another man is leaning on a wall with one hand to the side of the man with the bat. Caption: "One of the most ardent rooters of the Oklahoma City Indians in little Lou Garrison, right, a grandson of Lee Coffer, the groundskeeper at local Texas league park."
Date:
September 9, 1949
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0320.0177]
A daylight photograph of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, native and Oklahoma State University golfer, Karen Edwards sitting in a golf cart. Red and orange wax pencil editing marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Oklahoma State golfer Karen Edwards."
Date:
July 9, 1974
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0363.0084]
Photograph is of two men dressed in baseball uniforms. One is holding a bat and another is holding a baseball mitt. They are talking to each other. Caption: "John Grodzicki- left, Hal Epps -right."
Date:
May 9, 1948
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0363.0085]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform with his baseball glove on in the infield ready to catch a ball.
Date:
April 9, 1940
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0363.0087]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform with a bat resting on his right shoulder smiling at another person.
Date:
May 9, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0413.0235]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date:
October 9, 1941
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0415.0160]
Photograph is of two women standing as they put pins on the shoulder straps of his military uniform as he watches them. Caption: "Joe Bryan Ferrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest S. Ferrell, 3505 Marilyn Dr. dons his new gold bars with the assistance of his best girls, Penny Duncan, a WAF from New York stationed at Tinker air force base, and his mother. Ferrell received his commission as a second lieutenant in the air force at mid year military convocation at Oklahoma A&M. Ferrell was commander of the entire cadet division during the 1955-56 Autumn term."
Date:
February 9, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0957.0744]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "First class Memorial at OBU, class of 1922 started the custom of leaving class memorials to the university and presented the sundial slown here on a corner of the campus."
Date:
January 9, 1946
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0960B.0133]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "City K-9 officers and their dogs are shown with plaques received in regional trials." Image is of four men wearing police uniforms standing on the steps of the police headquarters. Each man is holding the leash to a German Sheppard dog sitting upright next to them. At the men's feet are plaques.
Date:
July 9, 1986
Creator:
Howell, Paul S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0960B.0152]
Caption: "Learning to attack a foe, K-9 cadet Sarg is run through his paces by Patrolman Marvin Dear." Image is of the back of a man wearing protective gear over his arm while a man wearing a police uniform and helmet holds the leash of a dog on a platform jumping towards the man wearing the protective covering.
Date:
September 9, 1968
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0960B.0176]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Image is of a man wearing protective gear covering his arm lunging as a dog jumps for his arm.
Date:
September 9, 1968
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0960B.0177]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Image is of a man walking next to a dog who is walking along an elevated wooden bridge. The man is wearing a police uniform and helmet and holding the leash of the German Sheppard dog.
Date:
September 9, 1968
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0960B.0187]
Photograph is of two men, one in a police officer uniform, and the other in casual clothing with a large protective mitt on his arm. Between the two men is a German Shepherd dog on a leash held by the police officer charging at the man with the protective mitt on. This appears to be a training exercise.
Date:
September 9, 1968
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0960B.0188]
Photograph is of two men and a dog in a training session for a police assistant dog. One mman, the police officer, is running after the dog towards a man near a car in a field with a training bite mitt on this arm.
Date:
September 9, 1968
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0997.0125]
Caption: "Mrs. Frederick B. Owen, city, pres. of Ladies Music Club" Woman playing the piano.
Date:
October 9, 1946
Creator:
Broun, Robin
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0997.0452]
Caption: "With cases scheduled that will keep it busy through Friday, the state court of tax review opened its session Monday at the capitol with the assembly of the above district judges." Photograph is of three men sitting behind a bench wearing dark suits.
Date:
November 9, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 66.0033]
Caption: "Burning Rubble ignited by one of many Oklahoma City area grass fires Monday is extinguished near SW 29 and Portland." Two firemen douse burning rubble with hose.
Date:
February 9, 1970
Creator:
Hill, Ron
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 66.0049]
Firemen putting out fire at power plant.
Date:
December 9, 1970
Creator:
Heaton, Dave
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 66.0071]
Caption: "Charred ruins of Riss Truck Lines freight depot are part of the $300,000 trail of destruction left by three 11-year-old boys" Charred remains of Riss Truck Lines.
Date:
October 9, 1963
Creator:
Argo, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History