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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7964]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sprining up faster than weeds in the warm sunshine, oil derricks have taken the northeaster section of the city. This remarkable aerial picture by Bill Bleakley from a plane flown by Hardy Young shows 41 completed derricks in the area, including the so-called "outlaw" well on the Harn tract, indicated by an arrow."
Date:
1936
Creator:
Beakly, Bill
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7955]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above is the farm of W. F. Harn, lying southwest of the state capital and state historical society building. The 100-acre farm is the site of an oil field being started in defiance of city zoning regulations. Inset at left is a photograph of Harn as he appeared not long after (?) homesteaded the farm, back in pioneer days when the tract (?) lay far to the northeast of Oklahoma City. At right, Harn (?) as he appears today, when he has taken a determined position (?) to prove his rights to drill for oil."
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8033]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "With a reverberating roar and a clatter of stones, Sinclair-Prairie No. 1 Holmes well on south end of the Moore field, put on a prize performance Tuesday morning for a gusher party from Oklahoma City's Pageant of Petroleum Progress. Conservative estimates gave the well a potential 30,000 barrels a day much of which was pouring over the crown block when Jerry Allred, Times staff photographer, made the above picture."
Date:
December 1, 1936
Creator:
Allred, G. R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2420]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of a multiple-story building's frame that is under construction. Backside handwriting: "Municipal auditorium.")"
Date:
September 19, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4939]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It is to the credit of the present and past state government that the Central Oklahoma hospital has been kept out of politics. Dr. D. W. Griffin, left, hospital superintendent, has been a member of the staff for 37 years. Dr. J. J. Gable, assistant superintendent, has been at the Norman institution for 22 years. Administrations have come and gone but these able medics remain on the job."
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7918]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the way Northeast highschool, Northeast Thirty-sixth street and Kelly avenue, will look when its three units are completed. The central and largest unit is under construction now, with concrete being poured in the second floor forms. Layton & Forsythe are architects for the structure, which will be one of the most beautiful school buildings in the city. In will be finished in Carthage stone, the sity's second school building to be finished with stone. The other is Central highschool. The central unit will cost $300,000. When the entire structure is completed, it will represent an expenditure of approximately $550,000. Contracts for the two wings will be let when attendence demands enlargement. In addition to offices and classrooms the building will include a large auditorium, gymnasium and swimming pool."
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7965]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of four guys at a table with an attached photo to the photo, attached photo with housing leading to an oil well at the rear of it, other people around the four, and more)"
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7948]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(night-time photo with the capitol on the middle, lighten oil wells across the middle background, and more.)"
Date:
May 19, 1936
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5102]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of the Oklahoma City skyline; buildings with names left to right is Braniff Bldg., Baker-Hanna & Blake Co., Perrine Bldg., Hales Bldg.; roads with cars, other large buildings all around, and more))"
Date:
1936
Creator:
Ginter, Grant E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4942]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of multiple buildings, housing, cars on a couple of the many roads, sidewalks, open land around, and more)"
Date:
October 11, 1936
Creator:
Allred, G. R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7954]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Song Of The Oil Derrick I am a ribald jester, I have led a riotous life, Comrade of barrom and brothel, Witness of passion and strife; Tired of my roistering ways, I have turned me to the town Where mansions stand in dignified row, Tour statehouse looks proudly down. But I see that I am not welcome, I who have served men long - Sparing not strength or muscle, Chanting a prosperous song. City despoiler, you call me, Besmircher of beauty's fair name! That is enough to strike terror To even an oil derrick's frame. My masters are greedy, you say, Befouling your stathouse without, What of corrupt politicians within Who scheme and graft? I shout, With cursings and slanderous lies Your leaders defile its halls, Why so aghast when in rollocking mood I besmatter the outer walls? The loathsome aroma of gas Hurts your sensitive soul, I suppose, But the stench of the shacks by the river Has not reached your sensitive nose. Your sensitive nerves are ajangle With the racket and roar of my rig, But your ears have been deaf to the cry of a …
Date:
April 22, 1936
Creator:
Allred, G. R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7971]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This map speculates the trend of the Oklahoma City oil field. Not that a geologic fault, together with numerous dry holes define the fieldon the northeast and, in fact, down the entire east side of the field. Dry holes cut off the possibilities of a further northward extension. Only Further drilling can define its western limit. Pioneers in this western hemispher sought a northwest passage from the old world, through the new world and back. Today the modern pioneers are finding an outlet or an end of the Oklahoma City oil field, and they, too, are looking to the northwest. These oil pioneers are guessing almost as much as the old mariners. Dry holes are likened to reefs and barriers, gushing wells are like the soundings of deep water and open channels. The old men on the bridge knew that danger was in front and on each side, so he had to feel his way along. That, in brief, is what the operators in the north extension of the Oklahoma City field are doing. They are feeling their way and some of them are taking long chances. They …
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7952]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Across the street of exclusive Lincoln Terrace, big producers of the Sunray Oil and Phillips Petroleum companies are draining oil from under the beautiful homes. Well No. 1 is the No. 8 State, and the 2 is no.6 state, both large producers. In the left foreground is the home of Louis A. Macklanburg, an ardent foe of drilling on the east side of the city, whose home is built over what some geologists believe to be the richest part of the field."
Date:
September 14, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7946]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Northwest of Lincoln Terrace, stands the dignified state Historical Society building and far behind it is the Sunray and Phillips Petroleum No. 5 State, at the west entrance of the capitol. In the center the capitol dome is dwarfed by forest of derricks, but outstanding at the east entrance are two more of the Sunray and Phillips wells."
Date:
September 1, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4950]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of multiple buildings showing the sides, housing, sidewalks, open land around, and more)"
Date:
October 11, 1936
Creator:
Allred, G. R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2421]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(photo of a building that is fully erected and looks finished with a scaffholding going from ground to even above the the roof with a crane on the roof.)"
Date:
September 13, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7967]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(drawing showing the capitol at the top, the "Rock Island Railroad line" going down the left, the areas tagged "Ballot 1" through "Ballot 3" for the extension of the drilling line, and more)"
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7962]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Steel derricks flank North Kelly avenue on the east side, which is one of the boundaries of Lincoln Terrace. All of the wells in this group are producers and are taking the oil from under the terrace."
Date:
September 14, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7970]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In black and white, here's how Oklahoma City voted on oil extension. Precincts in black are those which approved extension in Tuesday's election. White are where voters cried: "Gushers, stay away from my door." Note how the "solid south" and the "Effete east" overwhelmed ward one, with six precincts even in this stronghold of conservatism joining the black gold rush. Northeast of the statehouse, those 18 white dots are new oil well locations in the new zone, for which drilling permits were asked Wednesday by the Phillips Pertoleum Co. The dotted line indicated the boundary of the new zone, the lines of X's the old zone line."
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8968]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(cut-out photo of a multi-story fancy buidling with a bell-tower, and more. Backside handwritng: the "Boston Ave. Methodist Church.")"
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8016]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(two photos taped together with neighborhood housing in foreground, a creek and bridge across the bottom, oil field in the background, and more)"
Date:
March 9, 1936
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3493]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(commercial ad photo of the club with "Twin Hills golf Club Oklahoma City Scene of 1934 Western Amateur July 10th to 15th." A few people at the front on the ground at side spot stairs.)"
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4963]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The most modern building of its kind in the southwet, Hope Hall was built for approximately $1,000,000. This is the home of every new at the hospital, and the permanent home for the acute or violently ill patients. Completely modern, it does not in the least resemble the hospital prison of other days. Even the bars form artistic designs."
Date:
1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7963]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the neatest tricks in drilling an oil well lies in known when to quit. You don't just go on drilling until a column of black gold comes roaring up the hole and shoots over the crown block. A driller has to know the exact moment when his bit bores into the producing sand, transforming what was until that moment just a deep hole in the ground into an oil well. And ascertaining this moment is made no simpler by virtue of the fact that the desired metamorphosis takes place, 6,400 feet underground. The trick is accomplished by taking samples. Every few feet, the bit is stopped and the well is circulated. Cuttings from the bottom are brought up and caught as they flow into the slush pit, mixed in mud. Dried and washed and placed under a microscope, these cuttings tell a geologist what formation is being drilled. Sometimes cuttings alone won't tell the story. Then a core bit is run down the well, a core is cut out and hauled to the surface. Wilcox sand is the big pay-off around Oklahoma City. But it isn't …
Date:
June 4, 1936
Creator:
Shroder, William J., Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History