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[Photograph 2012.201.B0362.0900]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's Turner turnpike, the most modern road in the southwest, opens Saturday, but there'll be a touch of the olden days."
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0369]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Grading and drainage on one section of the Southwestern Turnpike is about 90 percent complete and work is proceeding at a fast pace on other parts."
Date: December 12, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0965]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The good old days of 70-mile-an-hour speed limits on the Turner Turnpike are showing up near Sapulpa at the 81-mile marker on the toll road."
Date: August 12, 1979
Creator: Thompson, Michal
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1051]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers prepare for a Continental Trailways bus to be towed from the Turner Turnpike near Chandler. It overturned Thursday on slick pavement, triggering several other collision."
Date: January 12, 1978
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0362.0884]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An 1889-model wagon looks a little more archaic than usual as it starts down the deluxe 1953-model Turner turnpike from the Tulsa toll gate, bound for the Oklahoma City end 88 miles away."
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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