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[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0386]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New prices - 5 cents higher than the pike's former 75-cent fee - appeared on signs along the Kilpatrick Turnpike on Wednesday."
Date: February 15, 1995
Creator: Sisney, Steve
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0860]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage litters turnpike and shoulder after crash that killed two." Photographer Unknown. Original Photo 08/24/63. Published on T-08-24-63 RS."
Date: August 24, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0760]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "east bound lane east of Stroud Thursday was this semi-trailer truck hauling military household goods from California to Indiana for Movers Port Service."
Date: May 6, 1971
Creator: Albright, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3583]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The map shows the toll road route finally selected through the city of Sapulpa by the Oklahoma Turnpike Autority. The authority took the top, northern route (A). The lower southern route © was favored by the city of Sapulpa. The center route (B) was surveyed last spring and recommended by engineerd. However, engineers Tuesday recommended the nothern route because of increased right of way costs that have developed since… more
Date: 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9007]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Former Gov. Roy J. Turner says there was never too much excitement around the mansion at Christmas time when he and his family lived there. "They were just average Christmases, I guess," he said. "we never had any big crowds, although a few friends would drop by to wish us a merry Christmas. "On Christmas, this was just a day for the family. We tried to have all members of the family who could come to be there." Turner… more
Date: 1968
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3405]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "("Exchange north of Stillwater" - air view of a section of the turnpike showing the turn-offs constructed with an overpass in place, some housing, barns, open land, and more.)"
Date: 1974
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3403]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cimarron Turnpike winds westward into the horizon from Stillwater spur interchange, left photo, while toll road construction goes on at a bridge across Black Bear Creek. Favorable weather over the past month has permitted good progress for this time of year, the turnpike authority was told Thursday."
Date: March 18, 1974
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0362.0892]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The biggest thrill of a life-time turned to life's darkest moment for Tommy Joe Logan, 9, late Wednesday while he toured the Turner turnpike with his family."
Date: 1953
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9009]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "I'm proud, as any man would be," Roy J. Turner, for whom the Turner Turnpike was named, dais Saturday as the 88-mile superhighway was opened to traffic. Turner shared speaking honors with Gov. Murray at Stroud, and is shown as he addressed the crowd at opening of the Witcher toll gate, at the Oklahoma City terminous of the road. The road was named for Turner by the legislature."
Date: 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0414B.0114]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The 21 year old marine who set out eight days ago to break the cross country bicycle riding record stopped in the Northwest corner of Oklahoma City Friday morning - right on Schedule."
Date: May 22, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.B0289B.0491]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Three new turnpike measures were approved by Oklahoma voters Tuesday although 41 out of 77 counties voted against the construction of the new roads."
Date: January 27, 1954
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.OVZ001.3635]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is an artist's conception of how a north outer loop turnpike would look. The highway, superimposed on an aerial photograph looking west, roughly parallels the present Memorial Road, and Mercy Health Center is visible in the upper righthand corner. The foreground shows what the May Avenue interchange would look like, with toll booths on the access roads. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority's consulting engineers have rec… more
Date: 1988
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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