Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1900.331.007 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
05/18/1945 |
Description |
Black & white photograph measuring10" x 8" and depicting Julia Pryor Mongrain Lookout, the wife of Osage Chief Fred Lookout, seated at a dining room table with W. G. Jerrems, the plant manager of Douglas Aircraft Company of Tulsa, OK. The Lookouts visited the plant for the dedication ceremony of the one-thousandth A-26 Invader manufactured at Douglas Aircraft Company. During the ceremony, Chief Lookout christened the A-26 with crude oil from one of his own oil wells. The A-26 was named "Wa-Ko-Tha-Tonka," or "Menace to the Enemy." |
Search Terms |
World War II airplanes Native Americans A-26 Invader Douglas Aircraft Company bomber plants Osage Indians |
People |
Lookout, Julia Pryor Mongrain Jerrems, W. G. |
Place |
Tulsa, OK |