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[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0204]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FOR COMMISSIONER OF CHARITIES and Corrections, Buck Cook, incumbent, left, is opposed for the Democratic nomination for commissioner of charities and corrections by Mrs. Goldie G. Childers, Mounds, business woman and housewife."
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0098]

Caption: "When Excel Body Corp., manufacturers of school buses, needed more space, Durant offered a large hangar; then raised $14,000 to replace the building with a new hangar for their airport."
Date: April 30, 1954
Creator: Jacoby's Photo Service
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0694]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Laverne Clary, Talihina, and Calvin Kennedy, Caddo, will represent Southeastern State college in the Miss and Mr. Teacher Contest May 3-7 at East Texas State College, Commerce, Texas."
Date: April 17, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0099]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The state's only wooden box factor is in Durant."
Date: September 2, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0111.0300]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0262

Photograph taken at night of a structure engulfed in flames and smoke. Silhouettes of people in a crowd are in the foreground.
Date: April 14, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0123]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Durant Nazarene church is being repaired after fire of almost two months ago."
Date: August 12, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0260]

Photograph is of a single story structure that has been gutted out by a fire. The flames are still visible and smoke is rising out of the top of the structure where a roof once was. The silhouette of a fireman is in front of the building.
Date: April 14, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0121]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: February 25, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0120]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The walls of Jericho may have tumbled down, but not the walls of the First Christian church in Durant."
Date: February 16, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0105]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A railroad changed the course of this southeastern Oklahoma town more than 50 years ago, resulting in the moving of the business district from south to the present east-west main drag a good half mile west of the original "Old Town."
Date: December 20, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1389.0168]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There just aren't enough boys to go around a baseball diamond at Kemp during the summer months."
Date: August 29, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0997.0205]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John T. Krattiger, right, is shown discussing club activities with Clinton Owens."
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1070.0041]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jean Quick, 5, and friends. Who's afraid."
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1070.0042]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jerry Qucik talks to Cobras as a bull snake looks on."
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1062.0323]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Jennie Pratt and Mrs. Georgia Johnston."
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1070.0040]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jerry Quick, 39 year old Durant snake handler, appeared Monday to be winning his gamble against death from an Indian hooded cobra's bite."
Date: November 1, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1132.0230]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Students at Oklahoma Presbyterian college, Durant, will entertain former students Saturday when former president of the college will be honored. Above, planning the program, are left to right, Esther Terry Hernandez, San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Amy Robinson, OPC president, and Ruthie Bacon, Daisy, Atoka county."
Date: April 8, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1194.0506]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Southeastern State College Campus"
Date: August 26, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1194.0498]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the major improvements at Southeastern State college, Durant, cannot be seen from front of the campus."
Date: January 29, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from Truett Latimer to Hulon B. Brown, February 18, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from Truett Latimer to Hulon B. Brown, February 18, 1954]

Letter from Truett Latimer to Hulon B. Brown discussing putting a stop to construction of hotel on Lake Texoma and worries about communism.
Date: February 18, 1954
Creator: Latimer, Truett
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1310.0201]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "James Thrasher.. . rationing self-imposed."
Date: September 15, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1372.0408]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows Williams at an appreciation day in his home town of Caddo."
Date: September 17, 1954
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1310.0202]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Retired fire chief Day West, left, shows his successor, James Thrasher, how the old nose cart used to work."
Date: December 7, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History