[Photograph 2012.201.B1241.0404]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Shigeyuki Shimada, Hawaiian student in the shoe rebuilding course at Oklahoma A&M Tech, Okmulgee, found himself so engrossed in his related art leatherwork course that he has decided to make it his life's work."
Date: August 20, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0304.0053]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Realizing he lacked that certain " something" which makes the difference between mediocrity and success, Leland Desmond , 47-year-old portrait painter enrolled in the commercial art course at Oklahoma A & M Tech, Okmulgee, in search fir the answer to his problems."
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History