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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0888]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8--FIREMEN BURNED IN FLASH FIRE-Firemen are engulfed in flame as airplane fuel and fumes are suddenly ignited while the attempt to rescue members of the crew of a crashed DC6 airplane in Los Angeles Sunday."
Date: February 8, 1976
Creator: Yaro, Boris
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0885]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "An engine of Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner lies near ruins of home burned by falling Debris."
Date: September 25, 1978
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[2012.201.B0414.0108]

Photograph is of a man dressed in a baseball uniform and hat swinging a bat. Caption: "Al Ferrera, L A Dodgers."
Date: April 15, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0870]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SAN DIEGO, Ca., Sept. 25--BURNING FUSELAGE---This is the still burning fuselage of the Pacific Southwest Airliners jetliner that crashed in San Diego Monday following a head on collision with a small aircraft."
Date: September 25, 1978
Creator: Pratt, Chuck
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0909]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ontario, Calif. Jan 12--Rescued--Dean Plath, 58, of Tustin, Calif. slides from a single engine aircraft early Wednesday morning near Ontario International Airport where he and one other man were trapped for nearly four hours."
Date: February 12, 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0871]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HOSING DOWN--A resident of the North Park Area of San Diego hoses down the roof of his neighbor's burning home which was set afire by the wreckage of a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 Monday."
Date: September 25, 1978
Creator: Dryden, Ian
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Zyta Laky

Photograph of Zyta Laky. Photo by Miles Midloch, Carmel, CA, c. 1958.
Date: 1958~
Creator: Midloch, Miles
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936 (open access)

Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936

Article examines John Steinbeck's brief career as a depression-era journalist and his nonfiction work on the working conditions of migrant laborers in California that inspired his greatest literary achievement, The Grapes of Wrath.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Bailey, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Letter to Zella Patterson from Beulah regarding family information (open access)

Letter to Zella Patterson from Beulah regarding family information

Letter from Beulah, cousin to Zella Patterson regarding some family information requested by Zella.
Date: 1984
Creator: Beulah
Object Type: Letter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Edward W. Bushyhead and John Rollin Ridge: Cherokee Editors in California (open access)

Edward W. Bushyhead and John Rollin Ridge: Cherokee Editors in California

Article chronicles how Edward W. Bushyhead and John Rollin Ridge established newspapers within California during their search for gold.
Date: Autumn 1936
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Choctaws Indians in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (open access)

The Choctaws Indians in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Article is a lecture given by Reverend John Edwards to the student body at the University of California regarding his observations and experiences working as a missionary within Indian Territory.
Date: Autumn 1932
Creator: Edwards, John & Swanton, John R.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History