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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rapid temperature drop probably caused the shattering of this auto's rear window at the state fairgrounds Sunday where the annual home show was in progress.Two other cars with windows broken can be seen in right center, between 25 and 30 autos there were damaged during the turbulent weather."
Date: April 12, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo from the top of highway skeleton, workers at the frame, cranes at the right, housing in the background, and more.)"
Date: April 28, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Held over art at the Oklahoma Art Center,, Fair Park, is the sculpture of Louise Nevelson. Originally scheduled for Sunday only, the New York sculptor's work will be on view through Friday. The assemblages are on exhibit in the lobby."
Date: April 27, 1964
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Even Hemingway couldn't have dreamed a better plot about Africa and its beasts than the life story of one rare creature now inhabiting Lincoln Park Zoo. Luka and Makubwa, a pair of mountain gorillas, are so extremely rare that their presence alone is cause enough for wide-mouthed looks. But Luka survived an epic experience of violence in the Congo they day that country celebrated its new independence in blood. Species Vanishing Mountain gorillas, like North American whooping cranes, are a vanishing species. There are only seven in capativity in the world, four in the United States. The other U.S. pair, in the Bronx Zoo in New York, are so widely seperated in age that Lincoln Park's became a set of unique possible breeders. (photo tag: "Makubwa, rare in captivity and one of disappearing species, gazed through bars at Lincoln Park Zoo.)"
Date: April 20, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo at the "Stockton" store with its name on the roof, fireman up on the ladder on the left, some at the business door in center left, three guys watching in the foreground, and more)"
Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A Charred Shell is all that remains of Stockton's Foods, 5115 S Western, after a two-alarm fire raged through the structure early Friday. A dozen pieces of firefighting equipment fought the blaze for more than two hours before bringing it under control."
Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a car crash with the car on the street island with a "school" sign above it on the night light its against, person at the car, the hit street light laying in the foreground, six lane street, and more. Backside handwriting: "Accident 13th Classen")"
Date: April 10, 1964
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a building under construction with the frame of the outside wall being installed)"
Date: April 27, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Just for children will be "the Elves and the Shoemaker" which is the final production of the Oklahoma City University Children's Theater. Two of the elves who will be seen at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Fine Arts Auditorium are Kay Jay, Oklahoma City, and Wayne Shahan, Tulsa."
Date: April 9, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of two firemen on the ground in foregroud with the house spraying the building/house, the roof on fire, fireman on the left entering/at front door, and more. Backside handwriting: "Fire Ceder Terrace.")"
Date: April 21, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Awaiting pistol shooting (?) word are, from left, Hershel Hodges, Bob Wilder, Tom Bear, Jack Garrett, Phil Kennedy and C. C. Walker. Six Oklahoma City police pistol team members are anxiously awaiting the results of a special department-wide balloting Friday to see if they will get to attend a national pistol shooting school in June. Sgt. C. C. Wlaker, police weapons instructor, said more than $900 has been contributed by public spirted merchants and individuals toward expences of the National Rifle Association's match and school at Bloomington, Ill., June 11-20."
Date: April 14, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Celebrating First Birthday are the Roy triplets, who (obviously) had their birthday cake and ate it too. Sons and daughter of Mrs. June Roy, the babies are (left to right) Ronald, Michelann and Rodney. Ronald and his sister weight 19 1/2 pounds, and rodney, who has the heartiest appetite, tops this by two pounds. The Roy triplets live with their mother, an older sister and two older brothers at 1149 SE 18."
Date: April 20, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Muddled markings face the highway traveler approching the SE 74 bypass, where road signs can't be seen for the road signs. These stacked markings on I.H. 35 hide the turnoff designation to the H. E. Bailey Turnpike and Lawton/SE and SW 74 serve as an east-west link in south Oklahoma City, connecting I.H. 35 with the northern end of the turnpike"
Date: April 23, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5856]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Rapidly burning flames destroyed a long-time popular night spot Tuesday, doing an estimated $50,000 damage. Hampered by lack of water, firemen from three municipalities watched helplessly while flames swooshed through Cedar Terrace Dance Hall, Brtton R. and N. Kelly. The club burned to the ground in less than an hour after the first call, at 9 a.m. The possibility of arson first was raised when an area resident told police he saw a man run from the building and hide in a barn just as first signs of fire was noticed. Firemen battle blaze which destroyed Cedar Terrace Dance Hall Tuesday morning."
Date: April 21, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Kids rodeo performer, Steve Davis, holds tight in an effort to stay on a bronco. Children under 16 participated in the event sponsored recently by the Capitol Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce. The rodeo, a first for the Jaycees, will help finance such projects a junior league baseball."
Date: April 25, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo looking towards the arena being built with the "oklahoma Science & Arts Foundation" building at front view. Backside typing: "Columns for new fairgrounds arena towe above art center and planetarium at the state fairgrounds.")"
Date: April 27, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The $200,000 revamping of the Lake Hefner golf clubhouse is 75 percent complete and should be in full use by mid-May. Joe Walser, Hefner pro and manager, said use of the course has continued to spurt during the remodeling work. During March and average of 141 golfers used the course daily......A new fairway watering system will be in operation by mid-May and will help keep the nearly 300 new trees planted on the course thriving."
Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5857]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen battle blaze which destroyed Cedar Terrace Dance Hall Tuesday morning."
Date: April 21, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "At right, Linda Belcher and Judy Rippeee get their fill of hot dogs. More than 75,000 persons were expected."
Date: April 22, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Family relationships, both onstage and off, make up the drama found in "The Miracle Worker", which opens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Mummer Theater. The William Gibson play is the well-known story of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan."
Date: April 7, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joe Craig, left, and C.F. McCubbin, 87, await atop a Guthrie stagecoach as banker Pete Ellison hands up bags of money for transfer of deposits to a new bank building."
Date: April 11, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An old stage coach trunk had no home, but it seemed logical that it ought to go to Oklahoma City's Frontier City. Cecil Hart of Railroad Express, left, helps park engineer raymond unload the old truck while make-believe mashall Doc Holloday looks fierce. When the chest was put in its new place at the park, it was opened and an unexpected bonus was discovered."
Date: April 14, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Machinery Shed on the Aden Coyle farm was ripped apart by the tornado which also unroofed the Coyle home south of Tonkawa. It passed directly over the storm cellar where Coyle, his wife and two children and neighbors had taken refuge."
Date: April 22, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The windmill, house and barn on the Dean Hedges farm at Fairmont, southeast of Enid, ended uo in one jumbled pile of rubble after a Wednesday afternoon tornado moved across the farm. No one was injured. The family took refuge in the storm cellar."
Date: April 22, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History