Gentleman Tom Abbott: Middleweight Champion of the Southwest (open access)

Gentleman Tom Abbott: Middleweight Champion of the Southwest

Article describes the life and career of middleweight boxing champion Tom Abbott, the grandfather of the author. Devon Abbott illustrates his impact not just in the ring, but in his careers as a football and track coach and a chief of police in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 1990
Creator: Abbott, Tom
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Preslie Brown, McAlester, one of Dakil's lawyers, said that he wanted a sealed complaint in order that it would eliminate publicity and cause embarrassment to the prominent McAlester physician."
Date: March 2, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Broyles H. Gambrell reminisce about their 68 years of marriage."
Date: August 22, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Typical cell in Pittsburg County jail reflects cleanliness and sheriff's efforts to make improvements, but the jail may be padlocked next month because it's just too old."
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hard core prisoners must face spending time in the main cellblock, which actually reflects recent repair work."
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ceiling holes in women's quarters that provide an easy escape route, and an unsanitary cell are part of the jail's existing conditions."
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Restroom facilities in Pittsburg Co. jail, juvenile's quarters"
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Beam in hard-core cells, bottom floor ... all that is holding it up are the pipes on the right"
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pitt. Co. jail, women's quarters"
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "McAlester, jail"
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lack of security and unsanitary cells plague the outmoded Pittsburg County Jail."
Date: February 5, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 24, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Louise Smith McAlister cheerleader, doesn't seem too happy."
Date: October 30, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Recollections of My Early Life (open access)

Recollections of My Early Life

Article describes the upbringing of Carl B. Albert, Oklahoma Congressman and Speaker of the House at the time the article was published, in North McAlester, Oklahoma. Albert shares his personal reminisces of his early home and his father's mining work.
Date: Spring 1974
Creator: Albert, Carl Bert
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
We Had Everything But Money (open access)

We Had Everything But Money

Article describes the life of Congressmen Carl Albert and the environment and motivations that led him to seek political office in an autobiographical recollection. Albert provides a rich portrait of his family and upbringing in Bug Tussle, a rural school district in Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 1988
Creator: Albert, Carl Bert & Goble, Danney
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tommy Borland, McAlester lefthander, who will start for the south in the annual baseball classic at Texas League park Wednesday, works out in comfort."
Date: August 14, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BAPTIST EVANGELIST."
Date: October 8, 1978
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BAPTIST EVANGELIST .."
Date: October 8, 1978
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Assistant commissioner of public safety is Norman Hunter, above, who resigned as deputy warden at McAlester to accept the post."
Date: December 1, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 31, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tight-lipped convicts from the Oklahoma penitentiary paraded before a house investigation committee Tuesday night to deny emphatically any evidence of narcotics traffic behind the prison walls at McAlester."
Date: March 31, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "McAlester State Prison"
Date: March 12, 1976
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "New chapel at McAlester state prison"
Date: March 12, 1976
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0389]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "New chapel/library building at McAlester state prison"
Date: March 12, 1976
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History