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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Northeast junior-senior highschool's new cafeteria will be ready for occupancy in approcimately one month. Only interior finishing and installation of equipment remains. It has a separate dining room for teachers, a wall seperating the main dining hall from the steam table. Ceilings are Celotex; floor, asphalt tile. The kitchen has a walk-in refrigerator. Contract for the cafeteria wing, including a stairway connecting it with the main building, was let to Builders Construction Co. for $116,300."
Date: January 5, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All-Night Vigil for peace was held following an 8:30 p.m. mass Friday at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1901 NW 18. Silent prayers for peace were made by church visiters. The service was sponsored by the Blue Army, a Catholic organization dedicated to prayers for peace."
Date: January 5, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Except for the trace of sleet showing at the water's edge, this Lake Overholser scene could be used for summer playland vacation poster. Next spring, with the snow removed, this sailboat and many other types of boats will crowd Lake Overholser's surface as fishermen and sportsmen again move outdoors."
Date: January 5, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Snows Drifted High in Oklahoma City Friday as a howling blizzard swept the state. The wind-driven snow all but buried cars abandoned by drivers. The one above was stuck at SW 21 and Pennsylvania."
Date: January 5, 1962
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: "Sprawling on a hill on Harrah's southside is a new $725,000 elementary school. From left to right are the gym, cafetorium and three classroom units."
Date: January 5, 1962
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gov. Bellmon delivers his "State of the State" message to a joint session of the historic 30th legislature."
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two guys searching a wreckage, one with his face toawrds the camera, the other with its back to it, and more.)"
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "You might say that building in the background is Oklahoma's winter wonderland factory. It's Belle Isle plant of Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. When the teperature of the atomosphere around the lake drops to freezing, it freezes the steam rising from the 80 to 100-degree water. Result-the pretty patterns you see on the trees and hedge. The warm water is discharged from the power plant turbines."
Date: January 5, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Construction workers set steel reinforcing rods in place for the top layer of concrete on one section of the new Western Avenue bridge across the North Canadian River. Officals hope the four-lane bridge, which spans the river just south of downtown Oklahoma City, will be completed in March, ending a detour that takes motorist across the actual river bed."
Date: January 5, 1978
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: "(Photo of two guys searching a crashed plane , the tail end of the plane in the foreground, a seat at the top far, and more.)"
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It doesn't take long to get used to a new name for a large downtown building but just to make things easier, workmen installed a new sign late Friday changing the name of the Perrine building to Cravens building. Under either name, it is the big office structure on the southwest corner of the intersection at NW 1 and Robinson, with the First National building directly across Robinson to the east, and the Apco Tower diagonally across the intersection."
Date: January 5, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of three guys at an airplane crash, two are standing with the one on the right writing something on a clipboard, the one guy bent over is on the far right looking to his right at something, and more.)"
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Was it cold at Lake Overholser Wednesday? Cold enough to freeze the tail feather off this red-winged blackbird! This forlorn little bird and more than 100 other unwary balckbirds were frozen solidly in sheets of ice as they fed along the shore. More than 100 were freed by the rangers and water department employes. (0-12-31-50: A severe cold snap froze Lake Overholser spray near the dam sent city workers and game rangers on this errand of mercy. they picked, chiseeled and thawed more than 100 blackbirds out of their trap in the ice-ecrusted lakeshore grasses where they had been feeding. They found others too late.)"
Date: January 5, 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: "Three FAA investigators probe wreckage early Tuesday of plane crash that killed three persons in city. A triple tragedy struck early Tuesday for a 26-year-old Alva expectant mother when she learned her husband and brother were killed in an Oklahoma City airplane crash Tuesday morning. Ironically, the deaths were prompted by the New Year's death of another of her brothers. Mrs. Virginia Ashton, expecting her third child in mid-March, sobbed in the living room of her home Tuesday after she was awakened by a telephone call. She awoke at 4 a.m. to learn her husband, Robert Joy Ashton, 27, a brother, Marvin Charles Radar, 20, and a third man were killed less than 4 hours earlier when their plane crashed just after take-off at Wiley Post Airport in northwest Oklahoma City. The third man - Kenneth Franklin West, 42-year-old father of three, also of Alva - was the pilot of the single-engine Cessna 182 SkylaneHe and Ashton had flown to Oklahoma City to pick up Ashton's brother-in-law, Radar, and army paratrooper stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., who had flown to Oklahoma City on emergency leave to attend the …
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Legislative Machinery is visible in this picture, made when Gov. Bellmon addressed the joint house-senate session Tuesday. To the governor's right are clerks, secretaries, the journal clerk, bill reader and others who are part of the extensive house of representatives staff. To the left is a bank of newsmen and television camera who overflow the press area."
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Catholic Church at Yukon is under construction with completion scheduled by Easter. The building is the first step in a major building program by St. John's parish."
Date: January 5, 1961
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scenic sidelight of the storm Frtiday was this Oklahoma City creek at NW 36 and Linn, after wind-whipped snow turned it into a copy of a mountain stream."
Date: January 5, 1962
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
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 crashed plane, the tail end in the foreground, a seat at the top far, and more.)"
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flames leap from derailed frieght cars early Sunday at edge of Geary. Six cars of a fast-moving, east-bound Rock Island frieght train derailed about 2 a.m. Sunday in the sparsely populated east edge of Geary. Two of the cars exploded, rocking the community and sending flames as high as 300 feet above the tangled wreckage. The fire was under control Sunday night and the wreckage was being cleared, but it appeared the track wouldn't be repaired and open to traffic until at least Monday...Fire Chief Lloyd McNeely said that if the explosion had occured 650 feet before it did the flames would have ignited Geary's new highschool, which was built last year after the previous structure was destroyed by fire in November, 1967...Mrs. Steve Mayo, who lives a block away from where the fire erupted and in the home closest to the blaze, said the explosion was so strong is shook her house and the light from the fire was so bright it hurt her eyes to look at it. Mrs. Oliver Pritchett jr., who lives 10 miles northeast of Geary, said she felt the tremor caused by the …
Date: January 5, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This is not Rottadam, It's Oklahoma City. This old building hasn't been bombed. They haven't been any earthquakes lately and it isn't the tornado season. It's just a plain wrecking job being done on the old Gladdish building at NW 1 and Hudson. A 2,200-pound steel ball is slowly but surely beating the old building into submission. The work is being done by the Cleveland Wrecking Co., and when the job is completed there will be a parking lot on the corner."
Date: January 5, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo looking back down the middle aisle, group of people in the pues on the right side, and more.)"
Date: January 5, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
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 guy behind a section of the wreckage, a bag in the foreground, and more.)"
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Senators and represenatives ponder governor's message."
Date: January 5, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Conversation turned to art at the preview party held Sunday. Something new for the new year was previewed Sunday from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. at the Oklahoma Art Center's preview party of painting, sculpture and tapestries. Co-hosts with the Art Center Association for the Contenporary American Tapestries showing was the Junior League of Oklahoma City. Another part of the preview showing was the center's new acquisition, the Washington Gallery of Modern Art Collection. The showings will continue until January 27."
Date: January 5, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History