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I-44 Skelly By-Pass, Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, and the City of Tulsa

Photograph of an example of the vast land needed to construct modern highways to serve metropolitan areas like Tulsa. The foreground shows the I-44 Skelly By-Pass and Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, while the city of Tulsa is in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Intersection of I-44 (Skelly By-Pass) and Highway 75 (Okmulgee Bee-Line). Tulsa in background. Shows the vast areas of land needed to construct modern highways to serve large metropolitan areas.”
Date: February 18, 1970
Creator: Thomas, James W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0145]

Seat from plane crash lying in a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Twisted propeller, above, was wrenched from one engine when a seven-passenger Beechcraft crashed just after midnight Wednesday in far north Oklahoma City. Four persons were killed and one critically injured, all linked to Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. Seat, below, was among numerous item strewn along the plane's flaming path in a wheat field."
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0051.0146]

Scorched remains of a plane near a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dark area in center background shows scorching path of plane after it hit wheat field. Two Oklahoma City insurance officials and the wife and daughter of a colleague were killed shortly after midnight Wednesday in the flaming crash of a private plane in far northwest Oklahoma City. The dead: FRANK J. HAVELKA, 49, the pilot. G. JAMES HUSTON JR., 37. MRS. NEIL BRATT. CANDACE BRATT, 15, her daughter. Bratt, the sole survivor, is in critical condition in Baptist Hospital with multiple injuries. All With Firm - The five were en route home from the Dallas-Fort Worth area in a twin-engined Beechcraft owned by Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. when the plane dived into a muddy field. All were affiliated with the firm."
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0275.0471]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SGT. I-SEE-O, (left) a Kiowa Indian scout, is introduced by Maj. Gen. Ernest Hinds, Commandant of the Field Artillery School to General of the Armies John J. Pershing (right) in 1922."
Date: February 24, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0298.0089]

Photograph taken during daylight of two women with a lantern. Caption: "Most happy to oblige, and thereby gaining an evening of fun, were guests receiving the invitation headed "Hayden Abney and Cindy Brown want you to come for Hot Dogs in the Hollow."
Date: June 20, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0312.0015]

Photograph of three kenneled dogs in the back of a station wagon.
Date: February 28, 1970
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0422.0017]

Photograph is a head shot of a man dressed in a military dress uniform. Caption: "M. Sgt. Donald A. Firkins, now serving with a unit of the Air Force Communications service at Tinker Air force Base, recently was decorated with the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam."
Date: November 5, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0910.0085]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The second annual Model Hobby Fair featuring model trains, boats, planes, cars. rockets, treasure hunting and ham Saturday and Sunday at the radio gear will be next fairgrounds." Image is of a man wearing a dark button down shirt, light colored pants and dark boots crouched down and adjusting wiring connected to a model rocket ship oon its firing dock. There are wires connecting to a plug nect to the rocket. The man and the rocket are located outside during the daytime on a dirt road in a field.
Date: 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0960B.0183]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Image is shown over the shoulder of a man holding a stick up while a lady holds the leash on a German Sheppard dog. The dog has his head lowered and baring his teeth in an aggressive manner.
Date: November 25, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

6000 N. Penn Apts. (May 7, 1970)

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Date: May 7, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aerial of Downtown Oklahoma City, OK

Photograph of an aerial view, looking west, at Downtown, Oklahoma City, OK. Photo by Don Gwynne, June 27, 1970.
Date: June 27, 1970
Creator: Gwynne, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aerial of Downtown Oklahoma City, OK

Photograph of an aerial of Downtown, looking west, Oklahoma City, OK, June 27, 1970.
Date: June 27, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aerial of Downtown Oklahoma City, OK

Photograph of an aerial of Downtown, looking northwest, Oklahoma City, OK, June 27, 1970.
Date: June 27, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

American Association of University Women Beleagured Earth Study Group

Photograph of L to R: Thomas Whipple, Debbie Doebler, Edna Bewley, and Pam Dutke, from the American Association of University Women Beleagured Earth Study Group, sampling water.
Date: September 20, 1970
Creator: Heckel, John David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Animal Waste Disposal Lagoon

Photograph of a swine feedlot waste disposal lagoon recently constructed. Vegetative measures, fencing and initial charge of water not yet accomplished.
Date: April 29, 1970
Creator: Robertson, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Apt fire (9-8-70)

Photograph of a fire at the Monticello Apartments in Stillwater.
Date: September 8, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0004]

Caption: "Oklahoma winds don't make it any easier for Julie Engle, 15, of Morehead Minn., as she attempts to carry hay to a trailer at the National Championship Arabian Horse Show at the Sate Fair Arena Monday."
Date: September 7, 1970
Creator: Fisher, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0036]

Caption: "Battery powered phone is displayed at the Oklahoma Science Fair by Damon Lum, Cache." Young man sets up battery powered phone for Oklahoma State Fair.
Date: April 24, 1970
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0037]

Caption: "Jim Staves of Tulsa featured algae exhibit." Young boy in front of his algae exhibit.
Date: April 24, 1970
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0055]

Caption: "Mrs. Fennell tests her son, Joe Don, 3." Woman hold apparatus to son's eye.
Date: February 18, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0159]

A daylight photograph of seven-year-old Tim Ferrell, as he prepares to participate in a fishing derby at Oklahoma City's Lake Hefner. Discoloration and red wax pencil marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Tim Ferrell, 7, an early arrival, checks his hook before starting."
Date: May 22, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0160]

Caption: "JOHN MARSHALL - LEFT - 3133 NW 60 Hefner dr. right, Ron Knight- Pres North West ." Two men kneel by bicycle while one holds fish.
Date: May 26, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0161]

A daylight photograph of three-year-old Shannon Isley participating in a fishing derby at Oklahoma City's Lake Hefner. Red and black wax pencil crop marks and discoloration are visible on the image. Caption: "Shannon Isley, 3, proves you're never to young to enjoy fishing."
Date: May 22, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Basement Box 51.0162]

A daylight photograph showing five-year-old fisherman, Donald Curley, baiting his hook at Oklahoma City's Lake Hefner. Donald was among four hundred children participating in the Northwest Optimists Club's sixteenth annual fishing derby. Caption: "Young Fishermen - 400 strong - turned out this morning at the Northwest Optimists Club's 16th annual Fishing Derby at Lake Hefner."
Date: May 22, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History