[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5122]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City skyline fades into Wednesday's trapped air pollution but intermitten rains' were expected to drive off pollutions today."
Date: August 9, 1978
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3705]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Workman Bill Rusche sets up barricades to close eastbound lanes of I-40 between May and Western after rush hour this morning to begin a $258,949 resufacing project. The barricades were scheduled to go up Tuesday until the work was delayed by the breakdown of a rotemilling machine. Highway officials said the work will be done between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and the lanes reopened for the morning and evening rush hours."
Date: August 9, 1978
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9549]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Serpentine curve moves westward on the southern boundary of downtown Oklahoma City as construction workers build the Crosstown Express. Downtown Oklahoma City can be seen in the background, in the foreground is Tolan Park bordered on the noth by Reno Ave. The diagonal street fron the center right is Exchange Ave. It runs northeast to the Western, Reno, Exchange intersection."
Date: August 9, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0421]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Grandsons of Quanah Parker carry the Comanche chief's coffin in reburial rite Friday at Fort Sill for the famed Indian and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker. The flag draping the coffin was later presented to one of Parker's daughters, Mrs. Wanada Page, Lawton."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0423]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crying into a handkerchief as friends walked by following reburial rites for Chief Quanah Parker Friday is his daughter, Mrs. Wanda Parker, above center. At right is her neice, Mrs. Teresa Komah, Lawton. A solemn, colorful ceremony under blazing mid-afternoon sun marked the reburial of the last chief of the Comanches, Quanah Parker, and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, in the post cemetery here Friday. A crowd of about 300, more than half of them Indians from various southwestern Oklahoma communities, thronged around the burial site near the center of the cemetery for the 30-minute service which started at 2 p.m. Six of the Cmanche chief's seven during surviving Children were present for the ceremony. They, with other relatives and high-ranking Fort Sill personnel, were seated under a temporary canvas shelter for the reburial rites....The reburial ceremony climaxed a stormy family controversy which has made headlines since realitives were informed Parker's body would have to be moved from the old Post Oak Mission cemetery. The old cemetery was recently taken over by Fort Sill to provide for expansion of the post's guided missle program."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0702]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tons of gear mean lots of work for members of Company A Admi, loading trucks for trip to Fort Chaffee, Ark., and two weeks of summer camp. An estimated 700 army national guardsmen left the NW 23 Street armory late Friday and early Saturday to join nearly 6,000 other men for the camp. Nearly a thousand engineers are headed for Camp Gruber near Muskogee and the guard's 1,700 artillermen are homeward bound from two weeks at Fort Sill."
Date: August 9, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10281]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Young and old alike stretch their hands through a pyramid of persons to shake hands with President Ford, bottom left, Sunday in Fort Smith, Ark. The nation's chief executive, en route to the dedication of St. Edward Mercy Medical Center, stopped to shake hands along the motorcade route."
Date: August 9, 1975
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0424]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a high-ranking serviceman in dress uniform walking the way for the coffin being carried to the site, both service and civilians are carrying the coffin, people lined-up along the pathway, and more.)"
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4800]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of the downtown area and some outskirts taken from an aircfraft or helicopter with the pilot on the right)"
Date: August 9, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1495]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a guy working in an equipment locker, changing out lamp/something else electrical parts, with more equipment surrounding, and more. Backside handwriting: "Jack Lovell.")"
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6916]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Zachary Taylor, a new steel, stone, and glass elementary school, is nearing completion at NW 53 and Shartel."
Date: August 9, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0426]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Last Chief Of The Comanches, Quanah Parker, found a final resting place at Fort Sill Friday. His body and that of his mother, Cynthia Ann parker, were reburied in Post cemetery. The ceremony, shown above, climaxed a stormy family controversy over where the new grave should be after the army took over old Post Oak Mission Cemetery, the original burial site, as part of a guided missle site."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1491]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two guys working on a equipment that is in a locker. The guy that is near is at the opened locker door is holding a piece, the guy in the rear on a ladder topping the locker and using a screwdriver for work that the other guy is holding, and more. Backside handwriting: "Doug Russell" and "Gebe Lyons.")"
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0422]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of many at a funeral that has a tent, many the far around the tent are in uniform, a number of them is regular clothing, the guy in the foreground right is sitting and holding a hat, and more.)"
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6425]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Hundreds of persons lined up today to buy tickets for the Osmond family performance at the Myraid Sept. 3."
Date: August 9, 1975
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0425]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of many soldiers in form for burial ceremonies wearing silver-metal helmets, civilians at the far middle left, graves in the foreground, and more."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2933]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Midwest City's burgeoning school district which has expanded to the state's third largest in 11 years, faces growing pains of a different sort this autumn. More than 200 students who live on the fringes of the 36-square-mile district want to attend Midwest City schools for various reasons, but can't. They live just outside the district boundaries in Crooked Oak, Star and Barnes school districts on the west, northeat and southeast sides of the Midwest City area...This put an added burden on the 7,700-student Midwest City system. Superintendent Oscar Rose pointed out......The only solution Rose can see is transfer of the pupils or annexation of the territory. Either issure to draw opposition from with-in the districts involved. (T-8-10-54: Map Shows Growing Pains of School Districts - Four school districts east of the city are facing a problem. pupils from Crooked Oak, and Star Barnes who live near the boundary, want to attend schools in the big Midwest City district. Concentration of students are shown by cross-shaded areas on the west and north, while others are scattered along the south side of Star district and on the west side of …
Date: August 9, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6975]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Radio station WKY's first major move toward television broadcasting was effected this week when Jack Lovell, left, and Gene Lyons, WKY engineers, moved and auxillary transmitter into the basement of the Britton transmisson building to make way for television equipment due October 1. Studio rehearsals and personnel training will start then."
Date: August 9, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0459]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "BACKSTAGE checking program before opening of Lyric Theater's "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum," are star David Harris, of Dallas, left, and theater director Carveth Osterhaus."
Date: August 9, 1966
Creator: Brown, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0967.0593]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Weaver building is going down to make way for a new structure."
Date: August 9, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0968.0333]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a view of the Oklahoma City skyline from an angle at which it isn't usually pictured"
Date: August 9, 1938
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0970.0280]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Signing letters to President Reagan and Premier Charnenko are, from left, Pat Nelson, Mary Land and Steven Davis"
Date: August 9, 1984
Creator: Wilson, George R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0865]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Prospective bidders gather this morning at a grassy site joining the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, 1801 Lincoln, to inspect surplus items the department put on the auction block."
Date: August 9, 1975
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0977.0467]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stopping to Stare, motorists and passersby were halted by this familiar shape at NW 44 and Miller Wednesday despite the fact that the stop message was blacked out."
Date: August 9, 1966
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History