Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "RUINS of the old First Baptist church building in Coalgate contrast with the recently completed $90,000 structure in the background."

A nighttime photograph of a gas well fire near Centrahoma in Coal County, Oklahoma. The image shows the wreckage of the well silhouetted against the intense blaze. Caption: "THIS IS ART ON BURNING GAS WELL AT CENTRAHOMA. IT IS PAID."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is one of the downtown buildings in Coalgate being utilized for the college's two-phase classwork."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "George Hill, Coalgate Record-Register."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coal County's new courthouse, a sleek building of pre-stress concrete and brick, is rising on the site of the 1911 model, plagued for years with falling plaster and general deterioration."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fire Chief Tom Browlie and Coalgate editor George Hill, right, looks over containers carrying air craft bombs."

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

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "All went well Thursday in Coalgate as demolition teams completed the task of transferring 35,000 pounds of air craft bombs from an overturned transport truck on the town's main street to others carriers."

A nighttime photograph of a gas well fire near Centrahoma in Coal County, Oklahoma. Intense flames were visible among the damaged rig where four workmen were injured by the fire. Caption: "LEAPING FLAMES surrounded this gas well that came in unexpected Sunday night near Centrahoma. Four men were injured when the fire stated and damage was estimated at $300.000. Workmen were attempting Monday to clear away wreckage so fire-fighting operations could begin."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William James Brooks, a square-jawed man with a flattened nose like a prizefighter's stood by the white frame house be built with his own hands and looked down the winding dirt road."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It has to fit just about right."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FINAL JOINT of 60-inch concrete pipe is lowered into place in the Oklahoma City-Atoka water pipeline."

Photograph of the Byrd Prairie Cemetery in Tupelo, OK, March 8, 1969.

Photograph of dozer disking & pulling railroad iron preparing land on bottomland owned by Harvey Woods. Leon Riley is operating dozer.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Spradling Coalgate Supt. of Tupelo School"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An 18-year-old Olney Future Farmer of America, Joe Spencer received a $250 cash award.. ."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four of the five members of the Tupelo school board, headed by President Carl Hill, threw their support behind the school administrations."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George A. Ramsey, Eleceted as convention delegate."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Hail-out cotton patch owned by Bob Graham, Clarita, was once 24 arces of flourishing knee-high cotton."

Photograph of Muddy Boggy Creek inundating SH-31 for 3 days, halting traffic. Adjacent farm land floods several time yearly, making cropping and pasture hazardous. Application submitted for PL-566 assistance in upstream prevention.

Photograph of a man in tall grass. This picture shows native grass after timber was sprayed in the Spring of 1967. Grass has made a quick recovery and good growth. Grazing was deffered during the growing season to enable native grasses to make growth and produce seed. OK-2904-12.

Photograph of soils, featuring mine pits and dumps in Coal County, Oklahoma. A typical area of the mine pits and dumps mapping unit. (100). OK-3290-10.

Photograph of soils, featuring mine pits and dumps in Coal County, Oklahoma. A typical area of the mine pits and dumps mapping unit. (100). OK-3290-12.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Seventy foot water tower is raised toward an upright position."