[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0478]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thousands came from town and country of southern Oklahoma to pay simple respect Wednesday to Wiley Post, whose flag-draped body lay in state in the Baptist Church at Maysville. National Guardsmen and police assisted a crowd of over 7,000 who came for a last view of the farm boy who rose from a cotton patch just outside of town to worldwide fame."
Date: August 22, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0477]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wiley Post funeral services in hometown of Maysville, Okla."
Date: August 18, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0479]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Page 15 from August 22, 1935, edition of the Oklahoma City Times, chronicling local funeral and tribute to the fallen Wiley Post in hometown of Maysville, Okla."
Date: August 22, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0372.0421]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 4, 1936
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0365]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mary Williamson, perched atop a load of Lindsay broomcorn, is attempting to demonstrate that the town's pride makes the best brooms in the whole wide world."
Date: August 4, 1936
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History