Photograph of a Trail Blazers Meeting taking place on May 23rd, 1952.

Photograph of Argus Dickerson and the band he was a part of.

Photograph of Argus Dickerson and the band he was a part of.

Photograph of Tanner Smith (SCS technician), WUC, McKinney, TX, inspecting a field of Suiter Fescue.

Photograph of Achenbach Brome grass seeded in three foot rows in October 1950 for seed production and grazing. The grass was side dressed in April, 1952, with 400 pounds per acre of 0-20-0 and 200 pounds of 32-0-0 fertilizers. Tanner Smith, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], appears in the photo. TX-48-114.

Photograph of Suitor’s Fescue planted in three foot rows in October, 1950, for grazing and seed production. The grass was side dressed in April, 1952, with 100 pounds of a 33% ammonium nitrate mixture per acre. The grass yielded more than 250 pounds of seed per acre. Class II Soil Unit 2. Tanner Smith, Work Unit Conservationist (WUC), appears in this photo. TX-48-113.

Portrait of the 4 Dallas Fire class members from April 1952 posing in front of a wall inside a building in one row. All of the recruits are wearing casual attire, shirt, tie, and slacks.

Photograph of recruit class number 50 standing and posing together in front of a painted cinder block background that is light-colored on top and darker on the bottom and features a large, very dark patch in the middle.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "There will be no picnic in Brock park-unless you take along a boat. This creek running through the park, swollen by rains during the night, benches are shown in a miniature lake."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "There may not be "water, water everywhere" at Lake Hefner, but there's still plenty for the city to drink. Even with Lake Hefner down 12 feet from capacity, there isn't a possibiloty of a water shortage like that which plagued Oklahoma City in the 30s and 40s before Lake Hefner was completed, Morsison B. Cunningham, city water department superintendent, said Friday. "We still have plenty of water to get us through the summer, even if we don't get anymore," he said. Such wasn't the case in the drouths of 1936, 1939-40 and even as late as the spring of 1948. From July, 1939 to May, 1940 - a total of 325 days - there wasn't enough water coming down the North Canadian river to keep a catfish wet, Cunningham recalls. That's when the city became so upset about its water trouble, it voted money for Lake Hefner. The sandy North Canadian, temperamental as it is, can't be depended on to give the city water every year. "We've got to plan to have two years' supply on hand for insurance," Cunningham said."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the big cloud that tried to dump a tornado on the south end of Oklahoma City Thursday night. A photographer caught this interesting shot across the Oklahoma City skyline shortly before 7 p.m. About the same time, residents lined downtown streets as if expecting a parade. But they were looking up as small funnels swirled down from the cloud base but failed to come to earth. The threatening cloud with the dark base and fleecy top gave Midwest City a breif hailstorm and induced an electrical display over most of the city."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The firemen's boat docks on the southeast edge of Lake Hefner are marooned by the 12-foot drop in the lake's water level. In wetter times, boats ride high in the stalls - not they're tied to the bank yards from the stalls."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is the big cloud that tried to dump a tornado on the south end of Oklahoma City Thursday night. A photographer caught this interesting shot across the Oklahoma City skyline shortly before 7 p.m. About the same time, residents lined downtown streets as if expecting a parade. But they were looking up as small funnels swirled down from the cloud base but failed to come to earth. The threatening cloud with the dark base and fleecy top gave Midwest City a breif hailstorm and induced an electrical display over most of the city."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It has been a long time but city motorists now enjoy the fruit of weeks of long waiting for street improvements to be completed. This picture shows the Linwood bond issue street improvement looking from NW 12 and Pennsylvania."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Hundreds of miniature fountains sprung up along the curbing at NW Park and Pennsylvania Friday morning in the wake of a two-inch rainfall which covered the newly-surfaced street. Fred Cobb, city consulting engineer, said workmen are ripping up the new blacktop to see whether the water was from a water main or storm sewer. He said the pressure behind the water, welling up strong enough to push dirts from under the paving, indicated a water main break. Work on Linwood resufacing project in the area of the break was completed only Thursday. Storm sewer overflows occured in other widely scattered section of the city Friday morning. (O-5-25-52) Clogged City Sewer Damages Paving A stopped up 12-inch sanitary sewer caused the water spruts in Linwood paving, engineers reported Saturday. Fred Cobb, consulting engineer, said the extend of damage caused to the new bond issue street has not yet been determined...We will take some test bores and try some load tests on the paving when it dries up," Cobb said. "Until then we won't know just how much the subbase has been damaged."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows the traffic circle on the U.S. 66 bypass looking south from NW 50 and Classen. The traffic circle connects the bypass that runs beneath the Western avenue bridge and connects south with the new Classen improvements. The present paln is to light this circle and paint lanes for a driving pattern."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake Hefner is down 12 feet from capacity, and the shoreline has stretched far out into what used to be the lake. But city officials aren't worried about Oklahoma City having a water shortage this summer. There'll be no repeat of the 1936, '40 and '48 water rationing, Morison B. Cunnungham, city water superintendent, assures lawn-waterers. Suffering most from the low water are boat enthusiast who can't dock thier craft. The shrunken lake has left this neck at the southern edge of the lake, above, almost dry."

Portrait of A. W. North turned to the side, looking straight ahead with a blank expression on his face. He is wearing a checkered, collared, button-up shirt. He has dark, short hair that appears to have been styled with gel. Deterioration damage to the photograph can be seen.

Portrait of A. W. North looking at the camera with a blank expression on his face. He is wearing a checkered, collared, button-up shirt. He has dark, short hair that appears to have been styled with gel and swept to one side. Deterioration damage to the photograph can be seen.

Photograph of the May Avenue Bank, 4921 North May Ave., Oklahoma City, OK. Photo by Bob Snodgrass, Oklahoma City, OK, May 26, 1952.

Photograph of the interior of the May Avenue Bank, 4921 North May Ave., Oklahoma City, OK. Photo by Bob Snodgrass, Oklahoma City, OK, May 26, 1952.

Photograph of employees of the May Avenue Bank, 4921 North May Ave., Oklahoma City, OK. L to R: 1. Mrs. Shedler 2. J. W.Fisher 3. Mrs. Lottle(?) 4. R. A. Amis, 5. Mrs. Cordell 6. Margaret Harding 7. James Elder, 8. Helena Scha(?) 9. Ben E. Smoker 10. Eva Prother. Photo by Bob Snodgrass, Oklahoma City, OK, May 26, 1952.

Photograph of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, age 91, Perkins, OK. Photo by Pierre Tartoue, May 24, 1952.

Photograph of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, age 91, Perkins, OK. Photo by Pierre Tartoue, May 24, 1952.