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[BASEMENT BOX 66.0147]

Description: Caption: "Is treated for chemical burns on his face during battle against three-alarm blaze which destroyed much of the Mayfair Shopping Center on N May Ave. Sunday." Firefighters and medic treat man with chemical burns on his face.
Date: August 28, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0855]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at the scene of fatal wreck east of Edmond Friday afternoon. Mrs. Judith Ann Powell, an occupant of a compact car which collided with the big trailer-truck, was killed."
Date: November 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0135]

Description: Caption: "Black smoke pours through roof of auto paint shop at 1142 N Robinson , below , and drifts across the city as shown in photo, right, taken from upper floor of OG&E Building at NW # and Harvey." Firetruck spraying water onto roof of burning auto paint shop.
Date: April 9, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0244.0483]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, moves down the receiving line at the White House today following the wedding of Tricia Nixon to Edward Finch Cox."
Date: June 12, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0879]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at scene of fatal wreck east of Edmond Friday afternoon. Mrs. Judith Ann Powell, an occupant of a compact car which collided with the big trailer-truck, was killed. Another occupant of the car, Mrs. Rosanne Conn, and the truck driver, Roger Freeman, escaped serious injury although Freeman was trapped in the overturned cab for more than a hour."
Date: November 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0158]

Description: Caption: "This mangled, charred truck caught fire following a tire blowout near SE 59 and I-35 about 6 a.m. today, creating a traffic tie-up that lasted three hours and affected countless work-bound motorists."
Date: July 15, 1971
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0982]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HIGH-RISING situation is created Wednesday afternoon when these two autos and a fire hydrant tangled at NW 24 and Shartel. The station wagon, driven by Pamela Sharp, 16, of 311 NW 18, westbound on NW 24, collided with the southbound auto driven by David Vaughan, 17, of 916 NW 38. No one was injured."
Date: February 24, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0682]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SLICED IN HALF was this car when it collided with another automobile near Pottstown, Pa. Sections of the split car are separated by more then 100 feet on the Philadelphia-Reading highway. One man in the split car was killed and another seriously injured. A man in the second auto also was killed."
Date: August 28, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0358]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An attempted at a quick lane switch sent this road material rig out of control this morning in the 2400 block SW 74 Expressway, police reported."
Date: October 12, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Investigators check scene of fatal car-train accident in Ardmore Friday. STATE TRAFFIC TOLL 1971 to date 788, 1970 to date 794. 71 deaths under 21: 236, An Ardmore woman was killed Friday afternoon when her car collided with a Santa Fe Railroad engine in the city limits of Ardmore. Dead is ADALEE EMMA TUCKER, 63, Ardmore. Mrs. Tucker, a waitress at Lake Murray State Lodge, was pronounced dead on arrival at … more
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Pitts, Robbie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0191]

Description: Caption: "A 4-alarm fire this morning destroyed a warehouse operated by Public Supply Co., on NW 4 east of Klein." Firefighters using ladder to get to the roof of burning Public Supply Co.
Date: November 29, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0423]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SUDDEN STOP came when the driver of this car swerved to miss a cement truck Thursday and slammed into the corner of the C. J. Mutter home at 900 East Drive in Edmond. Police said the driver, Roy Burleson, 17, sustained minor injuries. Damage to the house, which was completed only four months ago, was estimated by the builder at approximately $2,000." (Photo by H. C. Neal) Original dated 09-23-1971, Published o… more
Date: September 23, 1971
Creator: Neal, H. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0366]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A lumbering lumber truck hits a curb and went out of control for 192 feet Wednesday on an exit ramp off the Broadway Extension, police said."
Date: May 6, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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