Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 312

A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 312, 4-4-0, on passenger Train No. 53, near Altus, OK, 2 cars.
Date: January 16, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 314

A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 314, 4-4-0, on a passenger train No. 53, near Altus, OK, 2 cars.
Date: January 23, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 314

A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 314, 4-4-0, on passenger Train No. 53, standing at the Katy Depot, OK. [see also 2008.008.0577 for a photo of MKT 312 loco at the same site, on 10/6/1945]
Date: 1944/1946
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 555 (neg)

A photograph negative showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 555, 2-6-0, on Train No. 54, north of Altus, OK.
Date: June 30, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 716

A photograph postcard showing the St. Louis-San Francisco (SLSF) 716, 4-6-0, on eastbound passenger train No. 410, west of Altus, OK. [copies were sent to Preston George's railroad photographer friends R.H. Kindig, G.M. Best, J. Wesley Krambeck, Trains (magazine?), and Sylvan R. Wood]
Date: June 18, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1004

A photograph postcard showing the St. Louis-San Francisco (SLSF) 1004, 2-6-2, on eastbound passenger train No. 46, near Lugert, OK. "Note: the gas-electric unit normally assigned to this train was temporarily out of service. The granite outcrops are know locally as the granite mouintains."
Date: June 25, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1017

A photograph print showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1017, 4-6-2, on westbound passenger Train No. 409, near Altus, OK.
Date: July 2, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1023

A photograph postcard showing the Frisco (SF-SF) 1023, 4-6-2, on passenger train No. 409, near Headrick, OK, 4 cars.
Date: January 23, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1036

A photograph postcard showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1036, 4-6-2, on westbound passenger Train No. 409, west of Altus, OK.
Date: June 25, 1944
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1378.0380]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Senator Alben W. Barkley was greeted at the Union depot here Monday morning by Senator Elmer Thomas, Mayor Hefner, Congressman Mike Monroney and other party leaders. In the pucture from left are Barkley, Hefner, Thomas and Harrington Wimberley, Demicratic state chairman, who accompanied the Kentuckian from St. Louis, ."
Date: March 27, 1944
Creator: Hamm, Chase
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) 555

A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 555, 2-6-0, on a mixed freight, north of Altus, OK, 24 cars, 25 mph.
Date: June 10, 1944
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0287.0142]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Capt. Roy Henry, Altus, U.S. Army Air Corps"
Date: August 22, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1378.0376]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harrington Wimberley, Altus, newspaperman, left, Monday was elected chaitman of the state Democratic central committee to succeed George D. Key, right, as the party organization sounded the battle cry for the campaign. Mrs. Sue Ruble, Oklahoma City, was re-elected vice-chairman."
Date: February 21, 1944
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1378.0386]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "President Eisenhower Thursday praised the service of a Decocrat, Harrington Wimberley, Altus, Okla., newspaper publisher, who is retiring as a member of the federal power commission."
Date: November 8, 1944
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0420.0056]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Neither the waves nor the WACs could hardly be more alerted than are newspaper wives Mrs. Harrington Wimberley, Altus and Mrs. Joe W. McBride, Anadarko."
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

WKY - TV Tour for War Bonds Sales

Photograph of Wall Mural "Mason Dixon Line" in Altus
Date: November 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History