[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0215] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0215]
  • Added Title This Was A Cadillac Before It Hit A 'Safety Island,' Killing Its Driver.

Date

  • Creation: 1955-02-14

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Was a Cadillac Before It Hit a 'Safety Island,' Killing Its Driver. This is what was left of a 1951 Cadillac after it hit a "safety" island early Monday at SE 29 and Eastern. The driver, Urban C. Hawkins, 42, chief petty officer at the Norman navy base, was thrown out of the car and killed to become Oklahoma City's first traffic fatality in 99 days."
  • Physical Description: 1 photograph

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism
  • Keyword: Accidents
  • Keyword: Auto
  • Keyword: County
  • Keyword: 1955
  • Keyword: newspaper photographs
  • OPUBCO folder structure: ACCIDENTS / AUTO / COUNTY / 1955

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City
  • Coverage Date: 1955-02-14
  • Time Period: mod-tim

Collection

  • Name: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection
    Code: OKPCP

Institution

  • Name: Oklahoma Historical Society
    Code: OKHS

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 2012.201.B0052.0215
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc191349

Note

  • Display Note: PublishDate: 2-14-1955 Times
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