[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9006]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The big Indian vote will be a factor in the general election campaign and Democratic leaders mad a bid for its support as the caravan rolled into Pawhuska. Roy J. Turner, Democratic nominee, is shown above with Chief Lookout of the Osage tribe at the chief's home near Pawhuska. Oras A. Shaw, Democratic candidate for congress, also paid a visit to the chief for a conference on Indian problems. Biggest complaint of the Indians is the slow procedure of the Indian claims commission in passing submitted to it."
Date: August 30, 1946
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9005]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Roy J. Turner…Oklahoma's next governor."
Date: August 30, 1946
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8556]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(aerial photo of Ponca City with commercial buildings in the center, housing all around them, oil drums/storage across the top, and more)"
Date: August 10, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5188]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of the stockyards with the round train tracks at the foreground, the long building for sale, the "Wilson & Co. in the far, housing in the background, and more)"
Date: August 26, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7767]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This "birthplace of Oklahoma" city is in the midst of a new healthy growing trend. Although without war industry, population jumped from 10,0018 in 1940 to near 14,000, and is still climbing. Largest new industry recently added is a furniture manufacturing plant which employs more than 150 workers. Among other industrial products are farm machinery, caskets, cotton seed, peanut and mung bean oil and processed dairy products. the county seat of Logan county, is primarily an agricultural and livestock center which has enjoyed heavy oil production and drilling activities several years. Guthrie is the Masonic capital of Oklahoma. Besides a grand lodge. Masonic home and hopital for the aged, and Masonic home for children, temple and headquarters of Scottish Rite Masons are located in the city. Historically, Guthrie holds many "firsts," serving a Territorial capital and first state capital. (The land office in Oklahoma was located at present postoffice site, while first state constitutional convention was held in present city hall building.) Construction of a municipal airport was recently completed, and voters recently voted approval of $715,000 bond issue for a supplemental water supply, two swimming pools and extension …
Date: August 10, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5186]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The vast stock pens at the city stockyards were crowded Monday afternoon with cattle, calves, sheep and hogs that poured into the city Saturday night and Monday in a record run of the stockyards. Some 14,700 cattle came by trucks, which formed a long line down Agnew and east on SW 29 Sunday night. Another 400 arrived by train. This aerial photograph was made west og the huge pen area. Street on the right is Exchange avenue."
Date: August 26, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8448]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pawhuska, capital of the Osage Indian nation and county seat of the largest county in Oklahoma, is pulling away from the oil and cattle economy that has been its mainstay always. Oil and cattle are still its lifeblood, but the war brought it a taste of industrail prosperity which it is still indulging to a great degree. During the war the big Blake Manufacturing Co. operated seven canvas-goods plant here and trained hundred of workers. Blake is retaining many of these peace-time operators, and other small businesses, which sprang up under the impetus of war contracts are absorbing others and branching into lines varied products. However, oil, and particularly cattle, continue as the city's economic foundation. Established by charter in 1906. Pawhuska now has a population of 7,000. It ispractically debt free and will have cleaned up the last of its bonds by 1950. Geographically, it is one of the most picturesque cities in Oklahoma. Laid out in triangular patterns, streets in the old townsite are angled and irregular. As a result, any business buildings angular affairs. The Osage Indian agency, which guides the affairs of the oil-wealthy Osage …
Date: August 10, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9011]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Roy Turner and his wife, Mrs. Jessica Grimm Turner, and their 14-year-old twin children, Betty ad Bill, enjoy a picnic lunch at the ranch. The ranch home is in the background. This is headquarters of the 10,000 acres that sprawled over parts of Pontotoc, Murray and Johnston counties."
Date: August 2, 1946
Creator: Sparlin, Morris E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8981]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(aerial photo of downtown Tulsa with a cover sheet, names to the buildings and streets, "U. S. 66 to Claremore at top center, "Tulsa Country Club" at top right, "Masonic" at middle left, "Central Highschool" and "SW Bell Telephone" at middle right, and much more)"
Date: August 10, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7015]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stillwater, home of Oklahoma A&M college, is in a state of post-war expansion similar to other Oklahoma cities, but with Stillwater it saeems that the great influx of students combined with an acute housing shortage makes rapid growth more noticeable. The college is making progress in relieving the shortage of living quarters. The city, with civic and industrail bonds totaling $83,000 and a bond for elemantry schools amounting to $152,000 voted in last May, is doing its part to keep pace. Oklahoma A&M has purchased apartment buildings, quonset buildings and hutments to meet the demand for housing. Stillwater itself has a population in excess of 13,000 according to unofficial tabulations. The college enrollment is expected to add 9,000 more. Two assets of the city are airports - one on the north and the other on the south. the former is especially valubale, having long concrete runways and some hangers. two state airline companies have recieved authorization from the corporation commision to institute service through Stillwater on Oklahoma air routes. Styled the "augricultural capitol of the state." Stillwater also has other claims to recognition, not the least among them being …
Date: August 3, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2590]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of downtown Shawnee and spread out all around. Covered with a see-thru sheet handwritten notes showing the landmarks such as the mill, downtown buildings, roads all around, the municipal airport, I-40, housing, and more.)"
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0974B.0604]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "That "Jersey Bounce" on US 66 at NE 63 and Lincoln Blvd."
Date: August 5, 1946
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0960.0248]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 27, 1946
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0458]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 15, 1946
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Auto firm starts new building on Walker."
Date: August 6, 1946
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0978.0385]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 9, 1946
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0967.0583]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is another example of the ultra-modern southwestern architecture which is beginning to dot OK City, the new home of Walter E. Allen Company."
Date: August 9, 1946
Creator: Broun, Robin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0978.0378]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Virginia Avenue paving under way at last."
Date: August 6, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0972.0265]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Typical of the many conditions which make OKC the happy hunting grounds of rats in this "rat run" in the side of a building in the alley between Main and NW 1, in the 100 block west."
Date: August 20, 1946
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0974B.0347]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: August 2, 1946
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0547]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What's left of Goldbug stadium and press box, in circle."
Date: August 17, 1946
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0963.0041]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This scene on the fifth floor court shows Atchison's body, covered by a sheet, where it landed after the 26-story fall."
Date: August 1, 1946
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0967.0122]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This 32-foot pole atop the telephone building is the beginning of a sending set for the new mobile auto telephone."
Date: August 27, 1946
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0186]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 2, 1946
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History