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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0143]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Burning freight cars of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas line threatened to spread to a tank car filled with lethal chlorine gas, following a derailment on a trestle near Atoka Friday."
Date: June 30, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0142]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tank car filled with potentially deadly chlorine gas and five other cars of an MKT freight derailed and burst into flames this morning on a bridge across a creek north of Atoka."
Date: June 30, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0251]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A festival-goer apparently exhausted from hours of music and activities at '48 hours in Atoka' stretches out for a few winks early Sunday in a lawn chair amid a sea of litter and debris left from Saturday's show."
Date: August 30, 1975
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1400.0039]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "B.F. Webb - Webb, aircraft painter in the Directorate of Maintenance, retired from Tinker with a total of 27 years of civil service. In 1942 he began a 21-year military service career in the Navy and transferred to the Air Force in 1950."
Date: 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0919.0486]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DROUGHT IS BEGINNING to have its affect in eastern Oklahoma-- as well as in the parched wait as illustrated bythes farm pond at the dairy farm near atoka of Paul Mungle shoawn discovering it is down to about 2 acres of water when normally it holds 4 1/2 acres."
Date: April 15, 1971
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1257.0288]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A state prison inmate holding a guard at gunpoint fled from the McLeod Prison Farm in Atoka County early today and eluded officers after apparently picking up additional guns and a change of clothing at the guard's home."
Date: 1973
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0092]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the 1975 Labor Day Weekend scene during the "48 Hours of Atoka" rock festival that will echo again tonight in the Oklahoma City premiere of a filmed version called "Atoka." A crowd estimated at 40,000 heard such stars as Willie Nelson and Freddy Fender."
Date: September 6, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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