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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1553]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One man died in this wrecked auto on Oklahoma City's east bypass early Friday morning. Nelson W. Eldred, 74, of 4402 N College, Bethany, was dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital after the car rammed into the rear of a truck."
Date: November 17, 1961
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0493]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Glasses in a pool of blood were mute testimony to dangerous driving conditions int he Oklahoma City area Monday. These glasses were found in a car involved in the 2-car collision in Midwest City."
Date: February 6, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1469]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEMOLISHED in a fatal two car collision Thursday in Oklahoma City was this foreign-made car, driven by Mrs. Bertha Mae Jones, 39, of NW 10 and Portland, who died in the wreckage."
Date: September 8, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1558]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smashed car is death vehicle in which Purcell auto dealer Newell J. Barefoot, 47, was fatally injured Monday night in a head-on collision on NE 23 east of the Canadian River Bridge."
Date: October 10, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0792]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "OVERTURNED TRUCK gives a spectacular appearance to a traffic mishap Monday at NW 30 and Classen. A car driven by Mrs. Alma Hanneman, 1924 NW 40. There were no injuries reported."
Date: April 10, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0524]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A heavily - loaded semi-trailer truck was slashed in two Saturday by a Rock Island railroad passenger train locomotive at the U. S. 66 crossing at Yukon."
Date: July 16, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0640]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "While 200 spectators looked on, an Oklahoma city driver walked the thin ice surface of Belle Isle Lake Thursday-then suddenly broke the crust and disappeared into the freezing water."
Date: February 9, 1961
Creator: Park, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0508]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "ESCAPING FROM A BLAZING INFERNO, truck driver James Cook, 37, Shawnee, was able to walk away from his gasoline transport after it jack-knifed and burst into flames on Se 29, 5 miles east of Tinker AFB. Cook lost control of the truck, and it flipped over, coming to an upright position blocking the rad. Cook, who freed himself from the demolished cab, was taken to Mercy Hospital."
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0505]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Tulsa Tribune newspaper. Caption: "Arrows show two halves of 4,600-gallon gasoline truck tank on each side of railroad track after flaming crossing collision with Frisco Passenger train."
Date: April 10, 1946
Creator: Craig, Royce
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0870]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FLAMES STOPPED TRAFFIC for about three hours Friday after this gasoline transport jack-knifed on SE 29 five miles east of Tinker Air Force Base. Shown below in Mercy hospital where he was undergoing treatment is driver of the truck, James Cook, 37, of Shawnee. Cook was treated for burns, cuts and abrasions about the head and shoulders."
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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