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[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0166]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Pentathlon World championships opened Sunday in Mexico City and one of the three members of the United States team is from Oklahoma City. He is Jack Daniels, 29 - year - old Oklahoma City University instructor of Biology."
Date: October 23, 1962
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

["Melchor Ocampo" in Fraile]

A combine second and first class coach, No. 7 named "Melchor Ocampo" is the rear-end car on the Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's passenger train which has made a station stop at the small town of Fraile on February 23, 1960. Along these narrow gauge rails in the early 1920s bandits frequently staged holdups of trains carrying payrolls in gold and silver to the mines at Concepcion del Oro.
Date: February 23, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train at Concepcion del Oro]

Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's Engine No. 7 has taken a long drink an a summer afternoon at the water tank located in the yards at Concepcion del Oro, preparing to head an ore consist. This was a mining town for many years where ore trains departed on frequent schedules for the Mazapil Smelter at saltillo, Mexico.
Date: February 23, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History