[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0628]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "this is the choir bus, which serves an admirable purpose in getting boys to their concert engagements."
Date: April 18, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joy
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0627]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pillow fights are standard on overnight trips to the choir lodge. Here Johnny Gruber and Earl Eckels team up to blast a buddy."
Date: April 18, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joy
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0626]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Money earned by singing and 1,067 man hours of work produced this choir lodge, remodeled from a rural school, at the Great Salt Plains lake.1"
Date: April 18, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joy
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413.0104]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: May 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0567]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Homecoming Queen at Northwestern State College in Alva is Mary Elaine Williams, 20-year-old honor student and daughter of Mrs. Dora B. Williams, 1132 NE 17, Oklahoma City."
Date: October 18, 1968
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1402.0525]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lonesome youth Billy H. West, 16, Alva, is taken from arraigement to county jail juvenile quarters."
Date: February 18, 1964
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317B.0293]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "If gracious hearts could care the incurable, little Bradley Johnson would have no problems."
Date: January 18, 1973
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320B.0272]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Has Beens," who are excited about their destination of Oklahoma Girls State nest week, look at the official director and scarf."
Date: May 18, 1966
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1060.0251]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "LITTLE SYMPATHY for Wayne Postoak's two missing teeth is displayed by Cheryl Miller, Alva freshman at Northwestern State college, Alva."
Date: October 18, 1960
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1042.0156]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "R A N G E R QUEEN at Northwestern State College, Alva, is redhaired, green-eyed Linda Patterson, 19, of Woodward."
Date: October 18, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1404.0330]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Checking out flight schedules and aerial maps before departing is Bob Wharton, Alva Chamber of commerce member."
Date: June 18, 1970
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1355.0934]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Thing," looking like a pre-historic monster that escaped from a glacier, ices down a 104-car potato train at the Waynoka plant of the Railways Ice & Service Co. on the Santa Fe's main freight line."
Date: June 18, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0835]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FFA member Monte Sharp and 4-H'er Alan Whipple, both of Waynoka, groom an entry Thursday at the Oklahoma 4-H and FFA Livestock Show at the fairgrounds."
Date: March 18, 1976
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0440]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GETTING DOWN TO the grass root of things is Vicky Jesperson, Alva chamber of commerce secretary , who applies the finishing touches to a sign welcoming visitors to the western plains region of Alva."
Date: June 18, 1970
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Erosion Control

Photograph of Class VII land showing extreme erosion. This land is highly erodable as only a small rain is necessary to cause much damage. Little can be done now to check the erosion that is in progress. Oklahoma 10-913-C. Follow-up of Okalhoma 10-913-A (also see B & D).
Date: November 18, 1954
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Santa Fe (ATSF) 4099 & 3902

A photograph print showing Santa Fe (ATSF) 4099, 2-8-2, and 3902, 2-10-2, double-heading a westbound mixed-freight extra, starting up hill between Heman and Belva, OK, 102 cars. [Date 11/18/1945 or 11/3/1945]
Date: November 18, 1945
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History