Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0348]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jeweled globe to top roof of Masonic Temple in McAlester"
Date: July 21, 1930
Creator: Martel, E. N.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0349]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The "light of Masonry" shines nightly from the Masonic Temple in McAlester. The ball was built by the late A. J. Arendell, shown here beside the sphere."
Date: July 21, 1930
Creator: Martel, E. N.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0014]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 21, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pasture Contour Ridges After A Quick One-Inch Rainfall/Stigler Project

Photograph of pasture contour ridge holding water after a quick one-inch rainfall. The back of the photograph proclaims, "A newly completed pasture contour ridge holding water both above and below the ridge after a quick one-inch rain."
Date: April 21, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1263.0096]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "M. I. Stokes, McAlester, left, directed the bloodhound hunt."
Date: July 21, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1263.0095]

Two men in hats sit with each other, one man is wearing a badge that says "I'm for Gillespie."
Date: February 21, 1940
Creator: Cauthen, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Hotel Aldridge

Photograph of the Hotel Aldridge, McAlester, OK. Printed by E.C. Kropp & Co., Milwaukee, WI, May 21, 1945.
Date: May 21, 1945
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1064.0286]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bill Tronnier McAlester Boy Scout, submits application to attend national jamboree, Valley Forge, Pa., this summer, Left to right, Wayne Patten, Scoutmaster of Tronnier's troop, No. 2., McAlester, Tronnier, and C. L. "Pete' Priddy, , McAlester banker and chairman of the Choctaw area council national jamboree committee."
Date: February 21, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0263]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jerry Lewallen, senior, gets a junior warden card from Colonel Jerome J. Waters, warden at the McAlester prison."
Date: April 21, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0096.0017]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jan. 20- Julius D. Bohannon, vicious killer of two decades ago, sobbed like a child Thursday as he walked back inside the walls of the Oklahoma penitentiary 11 days after he escaped during a prison movie."
Date: January 21, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0096.0021]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Julius D. Bohannon, left, state penitentiary convict, was in solitary confinement Friday following his capture early Thursday morning near Tahlequah."
Date: January 21, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0373]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Emerson Grade School, McAlester"
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0375]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This between-class scene was taken from the entrance of McAlester's gymnasium-administration building which relieves classroom congestion at the high school and adjacent junior high, located across the street."
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: unknown
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.B0386.0378]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Built with the federal funds and accumulated building fund levies, the new 14-room Emerson Grade School is one of three replacements completed since 1952."
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1247.0400]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Age is no handicap in finishing one's education and Frank Sittel, realizing this, didn't let it keep him from getting a college degree."
Date: September 21, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0274.0631]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A survivor from the days of the Choctaw Nation is this old council house, located in North McAlester."
Date: September 21, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0346]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A McAlester landmark is the beautiful Scottish Rite temple of the Indian Consistory, a $3 million structure."
Date: September 21, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1310.0242]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Long-time publisher of the Hartshorne Sun, Elmer Thrower, has been a leader for water resources development in Pittsburg County."
Date: September 21, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0099.0138]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Final plea for mercy in the Ray Allen Young case is made by Rev. Joseph boucher."
Date: December 21, 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1100.0660]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Convict is thrown by Brahma bull during rodeo tryouts at McAlester."
Date: August 21, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1100.0660]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Convict is thrown by Brahma bull during rodeo tryouts at McAlester."
Date: August 21, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1129.0544]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Proudly pinning bar on her husband is Mrs. W. Roberts, McAlester Roberts was commisioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve as a member of McAlester's 2nd Battalion."
Date: October 21, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0304]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 21, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History