[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0456]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MCALESTER, JUNE 9-- A $10 debt brought violent death Monday to diminutive Joe "Blackie " Driver, 50-year old state penitentiary inmate who had lived recklessly most of his adult life. Driver, serving a seven-year sentence for burglary from Oklahoma county, was beaten and stabbed by another convict. His body was found under a building near the prison canteen, less than 50 feet from the sergeant's office."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0557]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: January 28, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0322]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 9, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0200]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "new trooper fitted"
Date: August 3, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0141.0466]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. B. (Dick) Conner, McAlester Warden."
Date: August 7, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0007]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Killed in prison break - 8-10-41"
Date: 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0010]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Prisoners wrote eulogy to Warden Jess Dunn, slain by convicts in doomed attempt at escape."
Date: February 5, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0141.0468]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. B. "Dick" Conner, McAlester Warden"
Date: August 7, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319B.0179]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0333.0087]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0267.0409]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma performs housing miracle at McAlester."
Date: August 15, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0270.0284]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fred Hunt, McAlester, prison warden"
Date: 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0001]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0006]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: February 6, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0170.0015]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Warden J. F. Dunn (above) and his two chief assistants, J. W. Phillips, deputy, and H. B. Crider, assistant deputy, have done a notable job in the last two years of enlarging the prison recreation program."
Date: 1940
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0552]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: February 22, 1946
Creator: Tapscott, George
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0244]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This valley is one of the beauty spots around McAlester, the golf course of the McAlester Country Club."
Date: June 3, 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0141.0467]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. B. "Dick" Conner, McAlester Warden"
Date: August 7, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0478]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A wartime shortage of good merchandise in an Oklahoma City woman's shop has created a new industry here employing 25 and giving promise for many more."
Date: May 17, 1949
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0846]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "L. J. Gordon, Edwardsville, Ill., was burned to death when his truck burst into flames after plunging over an embankment 10 miles north of McAlester on U.S. 69. Highway patrolman said Gordon attempted to pass a car when a front tire blew out, causing the truck to plunge down an eight foot embankment."
Date: April 7, 1947
Creator: Cowan, Howard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0108]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 7, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0296]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: June 1, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0297]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: June 14, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0228]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "McAlester High school athletic coach"
Date: March 14, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History