[Photograph 2012.201.B1032.0810]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr.Dan Proctor, president of the Oklahoma College for Women,Chickasha explains to Barbara Harrell,left,Indiahoma,and Betty Floyd Hugo,the contest to pick a script for the color movie to be produced on teh campus."
Date: November 22, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Greek Theater, Chickasha, Oklahoma

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: ". Asst Professor of speech / Okla. college for for women / Chickasha". Photo was taken at the Oklahoma College for Women original Greek Theater. The current theater was supposedly built near the site of the old theater.
Date: November 16, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grady County Court House

Photograph of the Grady County Court House, Chickasha, OK, November 10, 1949.
Date: November 10, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0860]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Robert L. McCormick, 33, Sperry, was killed Thursday in the cab of his truck, left, when it crashed into a pipe-laden truck, right, on the Washita river bridge on U.S. 81, three miles north of Chickasha. A truck, driven by James D. Stewart, 29, of 3401 S Shields, stopped at the bridge approach to allow McCormick's truck to cross the bridge, and William Louis Hudler, 24, of 1241 SE 17, driving the pipe-laden truck, was unable to stop. McCormick was trapped inside the cab."
Date: November 4, 1949
Creator: Dresser, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0322B.0236]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The money for the Rush Springs library came from rummage sales and other activities of the Rush Springs Study club."
Date: November 1, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1113.0667]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rush Springs school pupils have a new lunch room this year, thanks to a builing fund levy and the sale of tow schoolhouses in rural areas."
Date: November 1, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0388]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At the left : Mrs. Finley, who's still a bit dubious but doesn't protest about the strange hobby of her husband."
Date: October 2, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0387]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A typing segment of the Finley walls. Almost anything that can be stuck on with the cement is likely to show up. And he is always adding to it ."
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0389]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0390]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the George C. Finley home at 924 Minnesota street, Chickasha. It's a perfectly modern, conventional house except for the amazing assortment of stuff cemented into the outside walls."
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0391]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "George C. Finley, (home) Chickasha.."
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0392]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0393]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 22, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0374.0327]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Haskell "Jack" London has announced his resignation as director of music at Minco high school."
Date: September 19, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0991.0115]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This nurses' quarters building of Borden General hospital, Chickasha, will serve as the first women's cooperative dormitory at the Oklahoma College for Women."
Date: September 9, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0249]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chickasha children stop in front of the First Presbyterian church at Chickasha to examine the rock that marks the site of the first church and school in the city. Above, Edith Ann Swan, 7 and Robert Rose, & read the inscription telling of the first school in 1892."
Date: August 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0250]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The original church and school building is now used as the Frisco Avenue Methodist Church at Chickasha. It was moved from the original site in 1922 when the Presbyterians built a new building and was bought by the Christian Science society. Several year ago it was again moved and bought by the Methodists."
Date: August 30, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0261]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jess Larson, Oklahoma who has risen high in the federal government, has become the "rubber czar."
Date: May 27, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Olie Hale Farm Pasture Management and Stock Cattle

Photograph of "Stock cattle on the Olie Hale farm 3 ½ miles east of Rush Springs grazing weeping lovegrass seeded in May 1948. This is a coarse textured sandy soil and this field had cropped with peanuts for several years."
Date: May 20, 1949
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0065]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Swollen Washita Stalls Traffic Into Chickasha Hundreds of automobiles, trucks and wheat combines lined U.S. 81 north and south of Chickasha Friday morning awaiting the Washita river to recede."
Date: May 20, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aftermath of May 18, 1949 Flood on Oklahoma State Highway #81

Photograph of an aerial shot of the Washita River flooding a portion of State Highway 81. Note that several buildings are visible in this photograph with a few of them being at risk of being or was flooded. Furthermore, the bridge is completely flooded by the Washita River making travel impossible. The back of the photo proclaims, “Approach to bridge – State Highway No. 81, after flood of May 18, 1949 on the Washita.”
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aftermath of May 18, 1949 Flood on Oklahoma State Highway #81

Photograph of an aerial shot of the Washita River flooding a portion of State Highway No. 81. Several buildings are visible along Highway 81 close to the river. The back of the photo proclaims, “Oklahoma State Highway No. 81 after the May 18, 1949 flood. See Okla-10-054; 053.”
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aftermath of May 18, 1949 Flood on Oklahoma State Highway #81

Photograph of an aerial shot of the Washita River flooding a portion of State Highway 81. Note that several buildings are visible in this photograph with a few of them being at risk of being or was flooded. Furthermore, the bridge is completely flooded by the Washita River making travel impossible. The back of the photo proclaims, “Approach to bridge – State Highway No. 81, after flood of May 18, 1949 on the Washita.”
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Aftermath of May 18, 1949 Flood on Oklahoma State Highway #81

Photograph of an aerial shot of the Washita River flooding a portion of State Highway 81. Note that several buildings are visible in this photograph with a few of them being at risk of being or was flooded. Furthermore, the bridge is completely flooded by the Washita River making travel impossible. The back of the photo proclaims, "Approach to bridge – State Highway No. 81, after flood of May 18, 1949 on the Washita."
Date: May 19, 1949
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History