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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3544]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Automotive hearts should leap with joy at this scene., showing laying of the first paving on the Oklahoma City end of the Turner turnpike Friday morning. Here Metropolitan Paving Co. workmen spread a five-inch layer of asphaltic concrete beginning at Mile No. 7, some 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. They will spread the ribbon back toward the city to Witcher, where the Oklahoma City toll gate will be built… more
Date: August 14, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3545]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Automotive hearts should leap with joy at this scene., showing laying of the first paving on the Oklahoma City end of the Turner turnpike Friday morning. Here Metropolitan Paving Co. workmen spread a five-inch layer of asphaltic concrete beginning at Mile No. 7, some 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. They will spread the ribbon back toward the city to Witcher, where the Oklahoma City toll gate will be built, and wh… more
Date: August 14, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0393]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Drivers are noticing major changes as they drive near Memorial Road, including these bridge columns at N. Pennsylvania, south of Quail Springs Mall."
Date: March 14, 1990
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0370]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Traffic moves along U. S. 277, lower level, while workmen from Austin Bridge Co. work to complete the $147,420 Elgin interchange on the Southwestern turnpike."
Date: January 14, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0865]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tornadoes play strange tricks when they strike, and the one that hit Washington, McClain county, Friday night was no exception."
Date: March 14, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1073]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mass of wreckage was left after this Oklahoma cattle truck hit a Wichita turnpike gate, killing two attendants. WICHITA--Two counts of fourth degree manslaughter were filed against the driver of an empty cattle truck that rammed into two tollbooths of the Kansas turnpike Wednesday, killing two attendants. The charges were filed against John L. Pettyjohn, 35, of Hugo, Okla. He was arraigned on the two counts by … more
Date: May 14, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302B.0307]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Leading Oklahoma City performers in Turnpike sports Festival action here Saturday will include veteran bowler Fred James (left), swimming star Johnny Day (center), and tennis ace Charles Cunningham."
Date: January 14, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1393.0289]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One-Half Million was a magic number for the Walter B. Ward family of Wichita Falls, Texas, who beam happily at the Chandler entrance of the Turner Turnpike after recieving a certificate, a commission and a $100 defense bond."
Date: August 14, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0505]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Overpass under construction on the bypass near the Turner Turnpike present a dramatic scene to westbound tourist entering Oklahoma City on US 66."
Date: November 14, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0351]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These AFL-affiliated, independent truck drivers (and their trucks) look almost as tough as the Notre Dame line. Some 60 of the striking drivers set up a motorized picket line on a Turner Turnpike project between Jones and Luther in NE Oklahoma Co., reportedly tampering with workers and the actual work of non-striking personnel, until sheriff's deputies and highway patrol officers showed up."
Date: November 14, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5270]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Progress is showing up on this new bridge across the North Canadian River at Lake Overholser. The huge four-lane concrete and steel structure will replace the old steel span in the background. The bridge will carry traffic on the wide extension of the west by-pass. The bridge is a part of the project which will carry motorist on smooth four-laning across the north side of Oklahoma City. It will connect with the prop… more
Date: November 14, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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