[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6307]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is thre way Municipal airport appeared from the airplane Tuesday. Signs of major face-lifting can best be identified by the numbers. No. 1, on the west side of airport, is the $1,458,828 army bombing base which, when completed, will be comprised of 121 buildings. A request for $550,000 for additions to the base is pending in Washington. No. 2 is runway work and No. 3 designates grading and drainage, for which items a total of $766,403 of work projects administration funds have benn appropriated. The black line marked No. 2 in the foreground is a temporary runway being constructed to handle traffic while the main north-south runway is being relaid and lengthened. Present concrete runwayscan be identified as the white lines in the picture. Dotted lines showed proposed extensions. When completed there will be a north-south runway 4,460 feet long, and east-west runway 3,800 feet long, a southwest-northeast runway 4,000 feet long, and a northwest-southwest runway 4,155 feet long. No. 4 is the administration building on the east side of the field."
Date: March 17, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6267]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is how the site of the new city airport north of Bethany looked from the air Saturday, with runways to be included in the intial project painted in by the artist. This view is from the east side of the field. A $701, 000 project for improvement of the site includes a north-south runway 4,000 feet long and a northwest-southeast runway 3,000 feet long. The master plan for the airport, providing for later additions, also contemplates east-west and northeast-southwest runways. Bids for grading and drainage work will be opened April 16. On the extreme left is Northwest Thirty-ninth street, one mile south of the airport. West avenue is the east boundary. Buildings for the air terminal are to be financed by a city bond issue."
Date: March 17, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0678]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of an airport with at least three runways, many buildings from the middle left to upper center, administration buildings in the lower center, two hangers on the middle far right, and more.)"
Date: March 17, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0780]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "On this 160-acre tract three miles east and one mile south of Yukon, civilian instructors of the Oklahoma air college under supervision of the army air corps training detachment will began training future pilots March 24. Fifty men will make up the intial complement, with others sent in each five weeks. The training period is 10 weeks, after which students move on to one of three army fields for advanced work. Upper left is the hangar where trianing ships will be stored, and the runway recently completed. Barracks, with capacity for 100 men, mess hall and administration building are seen at bottom."
Date: March 17, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0968.0608]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: March 9, 1941
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0970.0287]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: March 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1268.0223]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jack Sudberry, Deputy Sheriff"
Date: March 4, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1420.0550]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Charles Yarbrough"
Date: March 28, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1398.0269]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: March 19, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0823]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: March 31, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1321.0691]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "INSTITUTE LEADERS---Saturday five of the original incorporators of the University of Oklahoma research foundation met and approved final plans for creation of a group to act as a liaison body between research specialists and industry."
Date: March 22, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1357.0020]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Claude Weaver, Rose Lee Jeffery and Judge Bert B. Barefoot"
Date: March 3, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1273.0626]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There is nothing quite like it elsewhere in Oklahoma." OHS note: this is the Thompson House in Tahlequah, OK.
Date: March 19, 1941
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1217.0613]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dr. Angelo C. Scott, left, with Carl K. Stuart, as acting managing editor of The Oklahoman."
Date: March 31, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1186.0176]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: March 16, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1207.0309]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 9, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0656]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 10, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1180.0516]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Larry Lee Skinner-Child conductor"
Date: March 13, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0114]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rodik Twins (Verda & Verna)"
Date: March 16, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1177.0450]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sinopoulo, John - Oklahoma City"
Date: March 1, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0112]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Verda and Verna Rodik are hard to differentiate between, but maybe you can tell them apart."
Date: March 16, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0111]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jane Withers congratulates two new Oklahoma film finds, Verda and Verna Rodik, eighteen-year-old twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Rodik of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, when they visit the set of her new picture, "Her First Beau" at Columbia studios."
Date: March 18, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1034.0033]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two men who will soon take positions as members of the Oklahoma Education Association board of directors attended the Friday public forum luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce with C. Dan Proctor, Ada, president, who was principal speaker. From left are T. L. McJunkins, Seminole, Proctor, and B. C. Pippin, Kingfisher."
Date: March 22, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0155]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: March 31, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History