[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880]

Creator

  • Photographer: Pitts, Robbie
    Creator Type: Personal

Date

  • Creation: 1971-12-18

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Investigators check scene of fatal car-train accident in Ardmore Friday. STATE TRAFFIC TOLL 1971 to date 788, 1970 to date 794. 71 deaths under 21: 236, An Ardmore woman was killed Friday afternoon when her car collided with a Santa Fe Railroad engine in the city limits of Ardmore. Dead is ADALEE EMMA TUCKER, 63, Ardmore. Mrs. Tucker, a waitress at Lake Murray State Lodge, was pronounced dead on arrival at an Ardmore hospital. Ardmore police said her car drove in front of the northbound Santa Fe freight. B. A. Shawn, 46, Lone Grove, a witness to the accident, said the train was whistling when Mrs. Tucker's car drove onto the tracks, but it was only about 25 feet away. Mrs. Gale Tucker, the victim's daughter-in-law, said, "there are no signal lights, no blinkers or anything to warn that there is a train coming. There is hardly any way you can hear if you have the windows up."
  • Physical Description: 1 photograph

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism
  • Keyword: Accident
  • Keyword: Auto Train
  • Keyword: State
  • Keyword: 1971
  • Keyword: newspaper photographs
  • OPUBCO folder structure: ACCIDENT / AUTO TRAIN / STATE / 1971

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City
  • Coverage Date: 1971-12-18
  • 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.B0052.0880
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc191646

Note

  • Display Note: PublishDate: 12-18-1971 Oklahoman
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