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Photograph taken at night of firefighters extinguishing a building fire while crowd watches. Caption: "$100,000 Fire Sweeps Lawton First Baptist Church"
Date: December 7, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only two voters in a mini-election at Lawton."
Date: September 7, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Preparing for special services at Cache Creek Methodist Indian Church are Louis Redbone, left, and Rev. John Tsatoke, pastor."
Date: March 7, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shirley Butler is relieved to finally be off the welfare payroll after 22 years of the government subsidizing the earnings she made at odd jobs in Lawton."
Date: November 7, 1981
Creator: Southerland, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Hugh H. Bennett , chief of the U.S. soil conservation service , left, and Dr. Lloyd E. Church, ."
Date: July 7, 1984
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vernon Howell, Hobart has , assumed his duties as president of Cameron college at Lawton, succeeding Clarence h. Breedlove, resigned ."
Date: January 7, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Hospitals - Federal - Indian - Kiowa - Lawton Okla."
Date: February 7, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: November 7, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fifteen top-ranking officers from the anti-aircraft and artillery school, Fort Bliss, Texas were at Fort Sill Friday, ending a two-day conference on next year's artillery advanced officer's course."
Date: April 7, 1950
Creator: R. A. Oliphant (Sgt.)
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. J. Hale Edwards (center), Lawton, wears a $2,000 smile as she accepts a plaque from James C. Worthy, president of the Sears-Roebuck foundation, and Mrs. Robert I. C. Prout, president of the General Federation of Women's clubs, during a ceremony at the national GFWC convention."
Date: June 7, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Concrete Skelton of new, 2 1/2 million Public Health Service Indian Hospital take shape northeast of Lawton."
Date: January 7, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Willie Rios of Lawton"
Date: May 7, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Historical Tour members pause Thursday for a look and a lecture on the Apache Indian scout, Geronimo, buried in one of three cemeteries northeast of Fort Sill and Lawton."
Date: June 7, 1963
Creator: Oklahoma
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Map pinpoints generators for cloud-seeding project."
Date: April 7, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Community award is accepted Thursday night for city of Lawton by Don Whitaker, right, Governor Hall makes the presentation as William Douce, president of the state Chamber of Commerce, looks on."
Date: April 7, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Books and farming use most of Gary Wilson's time."
Date: October 7, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SAULTED with 13 guns in formal change of command cereomies at Fort Sill Thursday was Maj. Gen. L. S. Griffing, above, new post commander."
Date: April 7, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frances Wise speaks during press conference Friday afternoon."
Date: January 7, 1994
Creator: Gooch, Steve
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A. Stephens Woody is a spry fellow who's accustomed by now to out-living people - and out running them, too when need be. Being a lawman around Lawton in the early days was no easy job, Wood recalls. "It was a pretty rough time. I'm the only one that's alive of the 10 or 12 lawmen around in those days."
Date: December 7, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 7, 1946
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Text Authors, Mrs John Roberson , elementary teachers in Lawton schools, display copies of "Lawton, a Child of the Prarie," a history text they have written for fourth graders."
Date: September 7, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's Mattie Beal Payne residence, one of the city's firs, may soon be the property of a local heritage association."
Date: October 7, 1973
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Being constructed near the new National Guard Armory in Lawton's Metropolitan Park northeast of the city, is this vehicle storage building."
Date: January 7, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Demolition continues for the 30-acre downtown Lawton urban renewal project area."
Date: March 7, 1977
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History