Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A change in interpretation of rules by judges of the national speech tournament at Pepperdine college, and a local eliminations contest to determine a third contestant Wednesday had Classen senior Kon Keesee on a bandwagon headed for California."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Joe Buck, former Oklahoma Aggie baseball star who recently signed with the Boston Red Sox organization for a reported $20,000, is visited at his Mercy hospital room by Miss Alice Florey of Tulsa."

Photograph of the Tom Miller Dam face taken from the south. There are nine spots for water run off, and a control station on the east side of the dam.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Imperial Bank & Trust Company requesting a bank statement for his account.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pershing was once a thriving community but when the oil play died out the population dwindled."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Creek county has for many years been a stalwart oil producing area and when the old-timers gather around to talk of boom towns the conversation always get back to the heyday of Slick and Shamrock."

Weekly newspaper from the School of Journalism of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma "published in the interest of the newspaper editors and publishers of the state" that includes industry and campus news.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Corn tornado left behind the freak wreckage that people have come to associate with Oklahoma's twisters. The home shown above was on the edge of a residential area that was completely leveled. The house lost the roof and the front wall. The organ shown in the room at the right still holds an undistrubed sheet of music. The chairs in the room were still sitting naturally around the table, but the house losty an entire wall only a few feet away. Forty other homes in the city were wrecked."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This striking aerial view at Lake Overholser is actually more practical than artistic. It shows eight new fire department 500-gallon pumpers meeting the exacting perfornce rtests demanded before their acceptance. Manufactured locally, all machines met the gruelling standards, and have been approved. Each one can pump 500 gallons a minute under 150 pounds of pressure. three went into service as replacements and five are being held for use in new bond issue stations."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Below is one of the old style oil field pumps that still draws the black gold out of the Osage hills near there."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four hours after the storm, the only people awake in Corn were the outsiders. At colony, a small group of residents watched curiously as telephone linemen set up a makeshift connection attached to a pole at the corner of the town's main intersection. At daylight Saturday, Colony people were lined up on the sidewalk to place reassuring telephone calls to worried relatives and recieve the anxious incomingcalls. It was the only telephone within 15 miles of the storm-damaged area. At both Corn and Colony, the work of shaking loose the debris, sifting the wreckage for personal valuables and making plans to rebuild was the first order of business Saturday as the skies that once frowned now smiled brightly. (photo tag: The tiers of seats belong to Colony's new gym. Only brick walss of the school remain.)"

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to J. B. Fowler discussing the agreement from W. T. Eldridge for land in Fort Bend County to be given to Sugarland Industries.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The church bus, or what's left of it, shown in the background above was parked in a garage 1 1/2 blocks away from its presents location when a twister hit Corn shortly before dark Friday. In the foreground is all that's left of several homes in Corn's southwest residential section."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a destroyed home/building with just the foundation and some of the concrete of the concrete walls still there, an organ/piano at middle left torn apart, and more)"

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dr. Robert L. Levy discussing his appreciation for a prompt appointment and thorough medical examination.

A photograph print showing St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 549, single unit diesel, on a 15-car freight, near Quanah, TX near Quanah, TX. [see also 2008.008.0666]