[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0059]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Now it can be told, Jimmie Hedgecock was only 14 when she married Sam Crowder."
Date: December 31, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0390.0378]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City athletic fans for some time have been calling Dr. C. B. McDonald "coach" as result of his keen interest in the University of Oklahoma football team. Here he is shown going through one of his pet plays with a group of OU gridmen during a workout in Biloxi, Miss. From left are Gene Heape, Bill Price, Harold "Bud" Hoofnagle, McDonald, Jack Lockett, Dick Heatly and Bert Clark. OU plays LSU in the Sugar Bowl Monday."
Date: December 31, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0390.0399]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The famous "spy photo" - despite appearnaces, Dr. C. B. McDonald is not rearing back to punch (LSU fan and spy) "Piggy" Barnes ... he has just snatched a handkerchief from Barnes' face. (Barnes was taking photos of OU Sooner football practice in Biloxi, Miss., before Sugar Bowl game with LSU)"
Date: December 31, 1949
Creator: Dennis, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1138.0088]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: December 31, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1138.0140]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: December 31, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0166.0653]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's canasta for Mrs. Stan West, left, Mrs. Charley Dowell, Mrs. Harry Moore and Mrs. Bobby Goad, right."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0319]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George R. Conover, Vice-President of Richard & Conover Hardware Co.- Retiring as manager of City Branch."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0256]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert S. Kerr, U.S. Senator"
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.1090]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jim Owens, Oklahoma's husky end, climbs into shoulder pads for the last heavy work before the Sooners moved into New Orleans Sunday for their Sugar bowl showdown with LSU Monday."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1011.0447]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Understudy for famous Doak Walker last season, Lindell Pearson, former University of Oklahoma backfield star, has been moved opposite Walker in the starting backfield of the Detroit Lions to give the team more running and passing power on attack."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1110.0630]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Darrel Royal, the cabey University of Oklahoma quarterback from Hollis in fine fettle as the Sooners completed Sugar bowl drills at Biloxi."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1138.0564]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paul Ruddell, 28-year-old attorney, has been named assistant chief of the new safety responsibility section of the state public safety department."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1370.0968]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two wives of University of Oklahoma football players now in training at Biloxi, Miss., for the Sugar Bowl game against Lousiana State University, give Sooner coach Bud Wilkinson the lowdown on how to handle their husbands during practice."
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0413]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Smoe, the Boston terrier belonging to Raymond Webb, Guthrie chief of police, is a full fledged member of the force."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0560]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Khorlin Choibalsan, Mongolia, Leader of Mongolian Peoples Republic, Chairman of council of Ministers and Marshal of Armed Forces."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0069]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0301B.0022]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A tiny hole accidentally drilled in the proper place 19 years ago has given Oklahoma City a new industry which may be a boom to farmers and industrialists all over the world."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317B.0039]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John Jeter"
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0164]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frank Loper won't have to wait another hundred years to use his burial policy."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0424B.0181]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two days to go and five fatalities under last year would make any police traffic official jittery. Lieut. John McManus has his fingers crossed but it will take co-operation from New Years' drivers to keep the city in the nation's safest column."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0913.0242]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mayor John B. Moore (left) accepts deed and abstract for Kiwanis swimming pool on behalf of the City of Edmond from former Kiwanis president, John W. Thomas."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0950.0097]

Caption: "William G. Nissen has recently completed one of his many projects in the overall development of a five acre garden and a small waterfall."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1391.0082]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9643]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First leg of Oklahoma City's urban road project is drawing lots of roadside superintendents near NE 63 and Eastern. Delmas Ford, left, assisstant secretary for the school land department, and LaVerne Carleton, ward three councilman, are shown at the start of the by-pass project. First leg of the road, now under construction, will run from NE 63 and Eastern to Lincoln and Grand boulevard. When completed the by-pass will skirt the north side of Oklahoma City tieing into the traffic circle near NW 50 and May."
Date: December 29, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History