Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Work hard with 15 quarter section? No, I just keep busy all the time."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Like 1957--lost $20,000 without getting seed back--talk doesn't help."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BOYD COWDEN"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BOYD COWDEN, Chandler senator named chairman of the important committee on committees, called for a closer look at Oklahoma's education program."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vernon Markwell, standing with Bible, give a final tribute to Carl Hubbell the new York Giants, legendry pitcher and baseball Hall of Famer."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Retired police man Cliff H. Goldsmith"

A nighttime photograph of a business fire at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows volunteer fireman Wayne Hart spraying water onto the burning C & G Grocery store from the roof of a neighboring building. Caption: "PLAYING WATER on the smoking ruins of the C & G Grocery in Chandler early Tuesday morning is Wayne Hart, a volunteer in the Chandler fire department who is working from the roof of an adjoining building."

A nighttime photograph of a fire in the downtown business district at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows citizens and firemen using hoses in a failed attempt to save the C & G Grocery & Market from burning. Caption: "TO NO AVAIL, Chandler Firemen work to extinguish a blaze on Main street there . The early-morning fire at C & G Grocery destroyed the structure and caused extensive smoke damage to three adjoining business places."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Need to tame the creeks--men can't fight them all the time too."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "J. C. Evans: "Clearing land for four-bits a day doesn't seem like much."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Double impact twisted this car that carried four persons to their death early today into a nearly unrecognizable heap of burn-scarred sheet metal, WELLSTON ----- A 17-year-old Oklahoma City youth, his 11-year-old-twin brother and sister and a 17-year-old girlfriend died in a fiery pre-dawn crash today on the Turner Turnpike near the Lincoln-Oklahoma county line, the highway patrol reported. The dead were identified as Russell Lee Cole, of 123 NE 9, the driver, his brother and sister, Donald W. and Donna L. Cole, and Sandra Kay Cobb, 17, of 1237 NE 44." "

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lost amid the hustle and bustle of today's modern society is this old farmhouse south of Carney on U.S. 177 where time and the elements have eroded its once proud stature, leaving not much more than a collection of old wood and the memories of time gone by."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An armed exconvict surrendered quietly to officers near here Monday after holding a farm family hostage for more than three hours while authorities complied with his demand for return of his impounded automobile."

Photograph of Globe Gin, Stroud, OK. Photo by H.C. Chaufty, Stroud, OK, November 6, 1908.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paul Wilson"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Merle Williams"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "That "stranger" hanging around the Frisco depot here the last few days is no cause for alarm."

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

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lincoln County agent Oran Stipe and Willis Kuhr examining experimntal plot of grass on the Kuhr farm."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Susan Provence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Provence of Chandler, proved to judges that it is possible to maintain and improve a sheep project in spite of almost constant family moving. It was this proof that the high school junior was selected for a top award in the Wilson Food Corp. 4-H sheep program. (National 4-H Congress)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "National award winner in the 4-H public speaking contest is Frank Polach, 17, of Wellston."