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[Photograph 2012.201.B0146.0655]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Trophy presented to the winner in the cow chip throwing contest gets this trophy, with a cow chip on top."
Date:
1975
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0327]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gov. Hall was proclaimed the 1971 champion chip-thrower Saturday after chunking a cow chip 80 feet at the second annual Cimarron Territory celebration in Beaver."
Date:
April 25, 1971
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.0328]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gov. Hall follows through after record "toss" at Beaver."
Date:
April 25, 1971
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0726]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Virgil Dale Cottrill, left. Sheriff A. L. Shook, standing. Cottrill held up 1st Nat. Bank, Forgan, Okla. 12/30/71"
Date:
January 3, 1972
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0180]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Using special scissors for shearing sheep, Debbie Williams, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Williams, Beaver, spends some of the countless hours o preparation on her Dorest."
Date:
March 19, 1971
Creator:
Wilson, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0146.0654]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Unloading the world's only motorized cow chip - a polyurethane foam mock-up of the real thing - is Jaycee Don Jenkins of Beaver."
Date:
1975
Creator:
McVey, Lori
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0008]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The guest of honor will be the founder of the community and its unofficial mayor, 82-year-old Tom Lemmons, who once operated Slapout's first business where the service station now stands."
Date:
August 26, 1977
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0364.0039]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heavy saddle presents problems for Susan Lyle of Beaver as she prepares to compete in the state 4-H horse show, which wound up Monday at the State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City."
Date:
July 12, 1976
Creator:
Carter, J. Pat
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0007]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom L. Lemmons, Slapout founder, remembers well the story behind the town's name."
Date:
April 24, 1975
Creator:
Johnson, James
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0956.0363]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Trainer Cap O'Dell of La Verne takes Peaches the mule through her paces at Saturday's World Champion cow Chip Throwing contest at Beaver."
Date:
April 27, 1975
Creator:
McVey, Lori
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1078.0799]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Beaver in the Oklahoma Panhandle is all set today for the city's unique annual event, the world championship Cow Chip Throwing Contest scheduled for Saturday and the winner will get this fancy trophy."
Date:
April 24, 1975
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1105.0507]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was plenty hot when cousins Linvell and C.J. Rose of Beaver pulledover for a breather in Slapout and the shadiest siesta spot handy was right under their rig."
Date:
July 2, 1979
Creator:
Thompson, Michal
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1052.0362]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SQUARING OFF for the Beaver Jaycees beard growing contest are Don Phelps, chamber of commerce member, and Boyd Tudor, Beaver Jaycee member."
Date:
April 15, 1970
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1180.0728]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Oklahoma Panhandle town of Slapout supposedly got its name from early day highway workers who joked about the store being 'slap out' of things. Frank Lemmons, son of the town's founder, and his two boys, David and Thomas."
Date:
1979
Creator:
Thompson, Michal
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0181]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Using special scissors for shearing sheep, Debbie Williams, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Williams, Beaver, spends some of the countless hours o preparation on her Dorest."
Date:
March 19, 1971
Creator:
Wilson, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1299.0621]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "IN FROM THE WILD, are these turkeys strolling near the Lawrence Drake farm outside of Gate in the Oklahoma Panhandle."
Date:
October 15, 1976
Creator:
Carter, J. Pat
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1299.0750]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Measuring out the perfect ammunition for Beaver's World Championship Cow Chip Throw in Ohio's entry, Bob Turner."
Date:
1976
Creator:
Baxter, Debby
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0391]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Planting winter wheat is this farmer north of Gate in Beaver County."
Date:
October 15, 1976
Creator:
Carter, J. Pat
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History