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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only min… more
Date: August 17, 1951
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0334]

Description: Caption: "Edward S. Correta, 212 W Kittyhawk, Midwest City, supervisor in an electrical maintenance unit at Tinker Air Force Base, reached back beyond World War I this week to give the children in the neighborhood a tight wire walking exhibition." Man walks on a tightrope while holding a parasol over his head.
Date: August 17, 1951
Creator: United States. Air Force.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0123]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "For the first time in Oklahoma history, people living in the Talihina and Clayton sections of the Winding Stair and Kiamichi mountains country can drive all the way to Oklahoma City on hard-surfaced roads."
Date: August 17, 1951
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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