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[Photograph 2012.201.B0553.0025]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Maj. Gen. Verdi B. Barnes, commanding general, U. S. Army Artillery and Missile Center, greets W. D. Hoback, Chief Engineer-Manager, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, upon arrival at Post Field for " Operation Understanding."
Date: July 30, 1959
Creator: United States. Army.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0587]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Increasing use of the Turner turnpike and the Will Rogers turnpike by heavy trucks such as this one have been as important factor in making the roads pay out satisfactorily."
Date: February 27, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0597]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Official notice that Oklahoma's Tuner and Will Rogers turnpike are interstate highways was nailed into place this week."
Date: February 11, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0352]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Turner Turnpike is getting rough. As the above picture show, the 6 1/2-year-old toll road is cracked over long stretches, and it has rough patches on some localities."
Date: December 22, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0487]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's turnpike safety record last year was the best in the nation, W. D. Hoback, chief engineer-manager of the system, said Tuesday."
Date: February 27, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0498]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "W. D. Hoback, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority manager, still thinks major resurfacing is needed on the Turner Turnpike but it must wait until next summer."
Date: December 22, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0502]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The third picture from the left, also taken just east of Chandler, shows how maintenance crews patch the pavement after cutting out faulty sections."
Date: December 22, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3582]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Turner Turnpike has the second highest ratio of net earning to debt of any toll road in the nation. And the Will rodges turnpike, reaching rapidly toward the "break even" point in income, compared with expense, after only 18 months of operation has enough cash in reserve to pay all interest, debts and maintenance for 10 years - even without further growth. In fact, the Oklahoma Turnpike authority has been "picking up… more
Date: March 3, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3577]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "W.D. Hoback, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority manager, still thinks major resufacing is needed on the Turner Turnpike but it must wait until next summer. Hot, dry weather is needed for the work, he said, adding that he also needs time in which to evaluate the merits of 10 different types of test material laid down on the roadway last August. Until major resudfacing can be done, maintenance crews are concentrationg on seali… more
Date: December 22, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0197]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SHATTERING FORCE splintered concrete posts like matchsticks Friday when a California-bound car carrying two brothers slammed into a turnpike bridge. Wreckage from the car littered the bridge floor (above) and the impact made shambles of the car's interior (right). Charles E. Burgess of Lima, Ohio, and his younger brother, Richard Burgess, were critically injured in one of the worst one-car crack-ups in turnpike… more
Date: January 22, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0199]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SHATTERING FORCE splintered concrete posts like matchsticks Friday when a California-bound car carrying two brothers slammed into a turnpike bridge. Wreckage from the car littered the bridge floor (above) and the impact made shambles of the car's interior (right). Charles E. Burgess of Lima, Ohio, and his younger brother, Richard Burgess, were critically injured in one of the worst one-car crack-ups in turnpike… more
Date: January 22, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0919.0158]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An Oklahoma City minister was identified Tuesday as the victim of a fiery, 5-vehicle crash late Monday on the Turner Turnpike, just east of Sapulpa. Rev. John K. Mount, 34, pastor of Capitol Presbyterian Church, was identified Tuesday, as the car and Mount's burned body were found underneath wreckage of a semi-trailer truck, one of two trucks and three cars that had piled up amidst smoke from a grass fire along the turnpike." more
Date: July 29, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0198]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "IMPALED ON A RAIL Thursday morning this car represented what a patrol trooper called the state's worst single car turnpike wreck. Two brothers from Lima, Ohio, were injured, one critically. Charles E. Burgess, 29, was taken to Wesley hospital in critical condition. Richard F. Burgess, 19, a marine private, was taken to Tinker Air Force Base hospital. He was not believed seriously hurt. The patrol said the car r… more
Date: January 23, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0329.0503]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oath of office is given, above to John Kilpatrick Jr. right, an Oklahoma City campaign friend of Gov. Edmondson whom the governor appointed recently to the state turnpike authority."
Date: September 3, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1391.0240]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "U.S. District Judge W. R. Wallace, 74, was killed Friday night in a head-on collision on the Turner Turnpike near Chandler."
Date: December 17, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4072]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Look what a building boom will do. This business area has grown up in the last few years on the bypass southwest of the Turner Turnpike gate. In the upper part of the picture is Frontier City. The neat three-row buildings is the Holiday Inn motel and just below it is the giant General Motors training school. Across the highway at lower left is Hummel Holiday Village. And this area will soon be tied directly to Oklahoma… more
Date: April 30, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9406]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Highway crews are forging another link in Oklahoma City's east bypass, part of a multi-million dollar project which will open interstate 35 all the way from the north bypass - just west of the end of the Turner turnpike - to Purcell. Now under construction is a section amounting to about 2 3/4 miles, running from NE 20 southwest to a terminal at the Rock Island tracks just north of the Byers bridge. Cost of the new jo… more
Date: August 28, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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