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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "They'll be after their fifth straight championshipp of the All-American College tournament when these Oklahoma Aggies launch their title bid against Texas Tech in the second game of Monday night's doubleheader at the municipal auditorium. From the left, they are; Joe Bradley, J. L. Parks, Bob Harris (behind Parks), coach Henry P. Iba, Gale McArthur (fron), Vernon Yates and Bob Seymour. The Cowboys have won four of five starts thus far this season."
Date: December 21, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charred furnitue remains after a $5,000 fire Saturday night at the Ritz Motel, 2808 NE 23, where District Fire Chief George Rummel said "smoking in bed" caused the blaze. A couple checked into the unit two hours before the alarm, but left just before firemen arrived, officials said."
Date: December 21, 1968
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pam Owens, Steve Burton and Julio Gonzales begin unpacking frozen turkeys that will be the menu mainstay for the 39th annual Red Andrews Christmas dinner. More than 4,500 needy people are expected at the Myriad Convention Center Sunday to enjoy the turkey dinner and Christmas party."
Date: December 21, 1983
Creator: Hoke, Doug
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Paper window mural of the Christ Child's birth is drawing attention at First Chrisian Church, NW 36 and Walker. A member, Mrs. R. T. Whittle, spent six weeks designing and creating the scene. She measured each glass pane, then fashioned characters and scenes to fit from crepe paper and craft paper. Explaining the scene to Tod Axworthy, 3,, is Mrs. A. C. Cornelius. She holds her daughter, Cindy, 11 months."
Date: December 21, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Santa Claus gives a new yellow car to Joshua Williams, 3, in a Santa house that was built this year by Ann and Paul Williams for the Red Andrews Christmas Dinner. Joshua, the son of Tracy and Joan Williams of Oklahoma City, is the great-great-great nephew of the late Red Andrews, and the nephew of Ann and Paul Williams. Tom Waitman is in his ninth year of playing Santa at the dinner. The faces are always the same at the Red Andrews Christmas Dinner. They are those of children, elderly people, prostitutes, illegal aliens, the mentallyt and physically handicapped, the lonely, drug addicts, alcholics, and those who need a festive atmosphere. Monday, they will join together to celebrate the joy of Christmas Day."
Date: December 21, 1989
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tall Order for truckers was the crating of two giraffes on their way to Springfield, Mo., from the Oklahoma City Zoo. A dip in temperatares halted Sunday's planned trip and arrangements were made to house the 10-feet-tall beasts in a heated bay at a city truck stop."
Date: December 21, 1975
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Eye To Eye, wreslers Andre Wells of Douglas and Lindell Mitchell of Southeast get ready to mix it up. Mitchell won a 4-1 decision. Southeast won the dual, 44-8."
Date: December 21, 1967
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "1957 saw a lot of improvements in Midwest City. The giant new filter plant designed to serve the city's estimated population of 25,000, was completed full automatic equipment installed. John Hawthorne is show checking dials on the plant, located at Felix and Rose near Country Estates school."
Date: December 21, 1957
Creator: Winford, Wesley
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two Daily Oklahoman reporters won 60 cents playing a one-ball marbleboard in the building labeled "gambling." It's the Emerald lounge, 2304 N Western. The taproom is located just across the street from Jefferson elementary school."
Date: December 21, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Happy Carolers - 10 Oklahoma City couples - stop at the governor's mansion to sing to Gov. and Mrs. Edmondson and their children, Jimmy and Patty. Thr group, caroling for the first time, loaded a small organ on the back of a truck and thus took their music and stage with them. After 2 1/2 hours of singing they decided to make the songfest and annual affair."
Date: December 21, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The new sewage plant located at NE 36, one half mile east of Air Depot, made possible unlimited expansion of Midwest City for some years to come. The sewage disposal plant was one of the major completions in Midwest City for 1957."
Date: December 21, 1957
Creator: Winford, Wesley
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The new strip of highway on U.S. 77 north of Moore was opened to traffic Tuesday. The new road by-passes the inter-urban underpass which had long been a trouble spot on the highway during rain and snowstorms. The new strip also will do away with two dangerous curves."
Date: December 21, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Civilized Tribe members above are: I-Tom Maguire, precussionist; 2-Kent Kidwell, trombonist; 3-Jim Rodel, pianist; 4-John Williams, double bass; 5-Joe Bob Nelson, guitar; 6-Bruce Glover, trumpet, and 7-Steve Girko, saxophone. Staff color photo, on Page 1, by Robert Taylor."
Date: December 21, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Children, teachers and parents are thrilled when an addition to their school building is completed and the moving in job done. Second-graders at Thomas Edison, NE 28 and Creston, now can get some serious studying done. Before their new classrooms were constructed last semester, students were on half-day sessions. In the picture below, Mrs. Thelma Lowder, teacher, is at blackboard. Moveable furniture (arrange in semi-circles here) makes for more flexibility in teaching."
Date: December 21, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Federal Aviation Agency's first high -altitude, jet navagational check labatory was completed and rolled out of the hangar here Wednesday morning. The laboratory, which will be used to check ground navigational facilities across the nation and in other countries, is a converted KC-135 jet, in-flight, refueling tanker purchased last fall through the air force. The huge, 600-mile-an-hour labrotory was modified at the FAA center here at a cost of $250,00 excluding cost of equipment, FAA officials estimate. The plane, orginally built as a tanker or cargo plane, has been equipped with special electronic gear to enable an in-flight check of ground stations sending out navigational radio beams. Previous to the conversion of the mammoth jet, the high altitude checks have been accomplished by smaller jet crafts. The KC-135 will check VOR (very high frequency omni directional range) facilities and TACAN (tatical air navigation to see if the stations are sending out directional headings within prescribed tolerances, Bob Ashby, project enginerr on the KC-135 modification, said. The TACAN and VOR stations give directional aid to military and air line pilots as well as the smaller craft..........The all-jet labroratory …
Date: December 21, 1960
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a little girl sitting on the ground holding a doll, trash and other stuff behind her, dead rats in front of her, and more.)"
Date: December 21, 1945
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A celebration was in order Saturday at the new plant of Aero Design and Engineering Co., when 1,500 members of employee's families were assembled for the annual Christmas party highlighted by christening of the first plane produced since August 25 fire. Here the crowd assembles to sing Christmas carols, beside the new Aero Commander."
Date: December 21, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Jolly Giver and his dedicated crew of reindeer dance across the cold skies of Oklahoma City Tiesday night, pausing long enough at the home of each good little boy and girl - and maybe even some grownups - to see that Christmas is made a happiness. All in a night's work. Did he have a"
Date: December 21, 1974
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 94-foot-tall steeple now tops a 50,000-square-foot auditorium under construction at Southern Hills Baptist Church, 8601 S Pennsylvania."
Date: December 21, 1992
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers put the final concrete sections into place on the Reno crossing of the N Canadian River."
Date: December 21, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Like a steel and concrete matrix slowly forming, the Reno bridge begins to take shape."
Date: December 21, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SUBWAY dELI & gRILL HAS OPENRD AT 6821 nw eXPRESSWAY."
Date: December 21, 1987
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Federal bureau of roads Wednesday approved an over-estimate bid on approaches to Oklahoma city's new may avenue bridges."
Date: December 21, 1960
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Richard Ferguson, admires some of the gifts donated."
Date: December 21, 1967
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History