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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5597]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's how Crowder Looked Saturday. A house used to be in the foreground. Other pictures on Page 21-A."
Date:
March 25, 1949
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7085]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dune-Like Drifts, piled high by force winds, isolated this café east of Boise City on U.S. 64. Times Photographer Jim Lucas fflew over the blizzard area and took this picture and other on Page 12."
Date:
March 25, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7087]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the worst spring blizzards in decades swepts out of the western plains into the Great Lakes area Monday with diminishing but still potent force. It left in its wake at least 30 dead in eight states plus uncounted property damage. It also stranded for many long hours - in some cases days - hundreds of train and bus passengers and countless motorists, and isolated dozens of comminities. Some cities and towns were entirely cut off from the outside world as wet, heavy snow and winds up to 74 miles an hour snapped power and communication...Approximately 440 passengers of two trains stuck in western Kansas since Sunday were removed by school buses late Monday. Some had been ill. Most were simply tired and hungry. Some 200 passengers aboard the westbound City of St. Louis, stuck near Winona, Kan., were taken to Oakley, Kan., the Union Pacific......One of the passangers removed from the City of St. Louis to Oakley, Kan., was given insulin treatment and was said to be recovering. he was identified as George A. Vrilakas of Roberta, Calif. The storm dead were distrbuted this was: New Mexico …
Date:
March 25, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9679]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Street view photo of "Carl Ticer" equipment store, outside display of products, sign at middle left for "Massey Harris M-H," and more)"
Date:
March 25, 1948
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5639]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These aerial pictures tell the story of Woodwards rebuilding. The upper left quarter of both veiws show the section hardest hit by the wind. Above: the area is dotted with new houses, and business buildings in the foreground are of the latest design and construction. In the picture at the right, taken early on the morning of April 10, 1947, the destruction is clearly shown. Nearly 100 blocks were swept by the storm. Not one hosue or business buildiong shown here escaped the force of the wind. About 80 percent of all casualties in the storm were taken from this northwest section of town. It bore the brunt of the wind's fury, but death, injury and damage resulted in every section."
Date:
March 25, 1948
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7088]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo "2-Snow-Bound train north of Boise City.")"
Date:
March 25, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9799]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of a "Sears" store and its auto service center, parking lot and cars surrounding it, businesses on the outskirts, housing around it, roads, and more.)"
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9741]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Short of their goal of $971,000, YMCA expansion fund leaders gather at a report luncheon. At a special luncheon Monday, leaders reported a total of $606,678 received. This is 63 percent of the goal, with the end of the month-long campaign set for Wednesday. A final report luncheon will be Wednesday noon in the East room of the Sheraton-Oklahoma Hotel."
Date:
March 25, 1964
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4069]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Purchase of this five-acre tract, outlined in white, has been recommended by Gov. Murray as a new home for the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, highway patrol, and crime bureau. The property, Park-O-Tell tourist court, includes a producing oilwell, fresh water well, room for 82 seperate offices and a garage which will accommodate 100 cars. Cost of the property is $700,000, but the owners agreed to donate $230,000 in return to the state medical foundation."
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9440]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of construction of a bypass on the left curving for the center, vehicles along the roads, housing in the background, buildings, and more)"
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9681]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Street view photo of a main road going to downtown at middle left background, housing at right, silo in the middle right background, and more.)"
Date:
March 25, 1948
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1983]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of land looking far away with fires near and far, much cloud coming from the fires, roads, housing, and more."
Date:
March 25, 1963
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4423]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With $4,208,000 in construction under contract, Oklahoma City's fine new fairgrounds begins to take shape. This aerialview looks directly east over main entrance at NE 7 and May toward downtown Oklahoma City. Race track and grandstand construction is in right foreground. Grand boulevard, route of the future west bypass expressway, is seen at bottom of picture. Walls of several new buildings will start going up within the next few days since most of the footings have been run by constructors, C. G. "Pete" Baker, Oklahoma State Fair manager, said. Final cost of the 1950 bond issue construction will be $4,750,000. The new fairgrounds plant is to be ready for the fair next September."
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9680]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Street view photo of a neighborhood, church at middle left, housing from middle left to middle right, a silo in the middle left background, and more.)"
Date:
March 25, 1948
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1985]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With shovels and gunnysacks, farmers along the Oklahoma-Lincoln County line Monday battled a monstrous grass fire which swept out of control across a seven square mile area. Above are two typical scenes visible throughout the day-long fight which found some battling the blaze hand-to-hand and others maneurvering to fire war fronts in pickup trucks."
Date:
March 25, 1963
Creator:
Cobb, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9434]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here’s the cause of that traffic detour at NW 39 and May, excavation and work on the new U.S. 66 bypass which extends northwest to a junction with the main bypass near Belle Isle. May avenue will cross over the urban bypass at regular level, with the bypass roadway depressed to form an underpass. Traffic wanting to make a change at this intersection will have to get off a block away then filter on to the new course from access streets. No cloverleaf exchange is planned, just a regular underpass-overpass crossing."
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1981]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heavy clouds of white smoke billow up from the mammoth grass fire in Lincoln County."
Date:
March 25, 1963
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4070]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of a main road across bottom to top middle, housing and businesses throughout, intersection of main road and another at top right, and more. Backside handwriting: "SW 29 & May (Looking West.")"
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1982]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of an area of land with fires through out, much cloud coming up and in the sky, roads, and more."
Date:
March 25, 1963
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9682]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of businesses at top left, housing all around, large building at bottom right, and more.)"
Date:
March 25, 1948
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1830]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A huge ice-making machine located on top this building plunged floor by floor through the plant, killing nine workers. Disaster scene at Wilson & Co. here looked like this from air Wednesday. The yawning hole marks the spot in the packinghouse building's roof where an ice-manufacturing unit toppled and fell through seven floors Tuesday killing five workers outright and injuring 16. One more died Wednesday. Two are still missing. Officials said it was still too early to determine what will be done to replace the structure."
Date:
March 25, 1959
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9919]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "OG&E riggers are adding another set of trees to those the park department is planting on Classen - poles to hold lights for the City's newest whiteway. The line of steel trees is steadily moving northward. Here's a glance along the line looking south from the 800 block. When they're all in place and the power turned on, Classen will be lighted from Main to the traffic interchange at NW 50."
Date:
March 25, 1953
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9445]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "One of these days, this net of metal rods will be a wall of concrete - a roof over the U.S. 66 bypass, a floor under May avenue. Sidewalk engineers at NW 39 and May are being treated to new marvels of mechanic these days as construction crews push the new highway interchange."
Date:
March 25, 1954
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9683]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of businesses across the photo, housing around outskirts, silo at top right, and more.)"
Date:
March 25, 1948
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History