[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6263]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Experimental Aircraft enthusiasts saw this gryocopter at the Experimental Aircraft association show at Tulakes airport Sunday. Here C.A. Leslie, 210 E Myrtle drive, Midwest City, dismantles the machine for road travel. The handle is for guideing, and the gyrocopter glides when pulled by something - like an automobile, Leslie says he is experimenting with the craft right now. "When I lears how to fly it real well I'm going to put a motor on it."
Date: June 5, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of six firefightes at the grounds of two houses, one on the ceiling of the left house, two on the right house, and six cleaning debris and damage all around, all around)"
Date: August 5, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's an exterior view of Bridge Creek gradeschool McClain county, as it looked after Thursday afternoon's tornado."
Date: April 5, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo guys playing a game with putting money down for their bets or they are just showing how much they have won)"
Date: March 5, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5543]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Storm's fury is evident in these damaged planes at the Empire Enterprises Airstrip west of Guthrie. The winds estimated at 90 miles per hour damaged five provate planes and tossed one on top of a hangar. Another tumbled more than 100 yards across a road and ended up in a grove of trees. No funnel cloud was seen."
Date: October 5, 1967
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8337]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Playing peek-a-boo with frisky animals isn't usually a good game for the dead of the winter, bu Lincoln Park Zoo officials say our unseasonably warm days are luring the animals into ideal viewing situations. A number of little fellows are in the bunch, including this inquisitive giraffe, born Oct. 21."
Date: February 5, 1970
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George Lewis, who loves elephants, whispers sweet words to our Judy at Lincoln Park zoo."
Date: February 5, 1954
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The broken chin strap doen't show, because it belongs to Calvin Harris and he's on the bench having it repaired. Because it broke, Clyde Russell was rushed into the game at fullback and he broke one - not a chin strap, but a 70-yard Sooner touchdown. There he goes, as Spencer Horne of Wake Forest grabs a handful of air. At left is OU's Kirk Killion."
Date: October 5, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo in fisheye lens of a girl on her bicycle, other girls on there bicycles, the one in the middle back holding an American flag, people, and more. Baclside handwriting: Right-Pollye Geyer daughter of Bob Geyer-2941 Brushcreek(?) Rd.")"
Date: July 5, 1971
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "(aerial photo of Lewis Field with Gallagher Arena at top center in Stillwater.)"
Date: March 5, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7610]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Cost Of an operation is sometimes worse than the operation itself according to some who have gone through it. But before you suffer a relapse at the sight of the operation room charges for your surgery, make a comparison with the cost of equipment and preparing that operation room to keep you alive and healthy. At St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City more than 5,500 major operations were performed in its 12 regular operating rooms and two eye surgery rooms during 1962. Minor surgery added another 5,300 to that while the hospital three cast rooms were used for 2,222 cases. Operations at the hospital sometimes total 50 a day if you add emergency cases, according to Sister Mary Grace, hospital administrator, and the surgery may require anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours. The hospital charges for operating room range from $20 for a tonsillectormy to $50 or $60 for a craintomomy................Hospital paid personnel in the surgery room includes a circulating nurse whose salary is about $2 an hour and a scrub technician or nurse at the same rate. But there are many others involved in the …
Date: February 5, 1962
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smoke and flame seep through the shingles of this two-story brick and frame home at 6903 N Eastern, owned by MR. and Mrs. Henry C. Robertson jr., as firemen fight the blaze Friday afternoon. District Fire Chief Roy Johnson said fireman Curtis Tinsley, 736 SW 45, a veteran of eight years with the department, recieved an eye injury in the blaze. Johnson estimated damage at $8,000 to the home and contents."
Date: November 5, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a yard with some junk cars and a tree line in the background.)"
Date: May 5, 1965
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Northeast junior-senior highschool's new cafeteria will be ready for occupancy in approcimately one month. Only interior finishing and installation of equipment remains. It has a separate dining room for teachers, a wall seperating the main dining hall from the steam table. Ceilings are Celotex; floor, asphalt tile. The kitchen has a walk-in refrigerator. Contract for the cafeteria wing, including a stairway connecting it with the main building, was let to Builders Construction Co. for $116,300."
Date: January 5, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "These Warr Acres stop signs, at NW 39 and Grove, were removed after Mayor Ray Maxwell was threatened with jail."
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Sunday Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sooner trainers try their best to find out what ails defensive back Sherwood Taylor, but it isn't too easy."
Date: November 5, 1977
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9241]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Four Were Hurt Monday night in a natural gas explosion in this garage apartment at 115 NW 12. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Foster; a guest, David Lee White, and Mrs. Foster's mother, Mrs. Vallie Prior, were treated for burns at Mercy Hospital after the explosion about 7:45 p.m. Firemen, seen here probing the wreckage, blamed a leaky gas pipe under the apartment. The blast was set off when Mrs. Ftarted to light her oven."
Date: December 5, 1960
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All-Night Vigil for peace was held following an 8:30 p.m. mass Friday at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1901 NW 18. Silent prayers for peace were made by church visiters. The service was sponsored by the Blue Army, a Catholic organization dedicated to prayers for peace."
Date: January 5, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Except for the trace of sleet showing at the water's edge, this Lake Overholser scene could be used for summer playland vacation poster. Next spring, with the snow removed, this sailboat and many other types of boats will crowd Lake Overholser's surface as fishermen and sportsmen again move outdoors."
Date: January 5, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Hidden project, from most passersby, is construction of Skirvin Hotel's new $1.6 million convention center. The low, while structure extending from left is wall of the hotel's Sun Suite Club swimming pool facing Broadway. The construction is part of more than $100 million in private improvements sparked by plans for urban renewal of downtown district."
Date: August 5, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of an amarkhor/mountain goat with a go-tee/beard on a rock, a child at front on the ground, another in the background, and more)"
Date: June 5, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of the "Cimarron Field" which is named on the center in the field(?), large administration building at center left, another house on the far left midle, bunkers and other buildings on the midlle right, aircraft from the center to middle right, and more.)"
Date: April 5, 1947
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jean Dewbre, 16-year-old junior, was one of the two persons injured in the Bridge Creek cyclone. Seated beside Miss Dewbre is her mother, Mrs. Jack Dewbre."
Date: April 5, 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Trail's End drive-in in Sapulpa met the fate of its name in Thursday's Tornado. Twelve customers were uninjured."
Date: May 5, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History