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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0447]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows how an accident Thursday night took the life of 14-year-old Neal Norsworthy, Jr., near the intersection of Classen boulevard and Northwest Twentieth street. As police reconstructed the accident from reports, the boy either was holding to the side of the truck or was attempting to ride his bicycle between the truck and parked car, when the bicycle handlebar caught on the parked car, throwing him benea… more
Date: March 1, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0470]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is the open road where Monday night's joy ride accident took three lives, injured seven others. The road is visible for 400 yards, in each direction."
Date: October 2, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0443]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWISTED STEEL AND SUDDEN DEATH--That's the result of a delivery truck-passenger train crash Saturday afternoon at the Santa Fe tracks on South Thirty-sixth street, when J. R. Hughes, 30-year-old salesman, was killed. Thrown from his truck Hughes was dragged almost 50 yards by the train, witnesses said. Impact of the crash wrenched a shoe from Hughes' foot. He lived at 614 North Shartel avenue."
Date: December 21, 1935
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0434]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "With love you tended us when we were babes; You clapped your hands at our first mirthless smiles. Our cooling "Da-da" tapped your boundless praise--With swelling chest you boasted of our wiles, You though our love sufficient for the pain Of worried hours in which you walked the floor. And prayed that we be spared when we were ill. You sang aloud when we were well once more."
Date: November 18, 1935
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0467]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Death won't take a holiday TODAY. While children play, while grownups enjoy the work-less day, death will continue taking its toll. Safety first is the weapon that is most effective against this dread enemy. America has materially reduced its Fourth of July sacrifice to death as far as fireworks fatalities, drowning and other accidents are concerned, but not in the number of automobile deaths. Last year, automo… more
Date: July 4, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0463]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "G. T. McMillan, Okmulgee linotype operator, died at 5 a. m. Monday in a local hospital from injuries received in a collision late Saturday night at the intersection of U. S. highways No. 66 and 77 east of Edmond. McMillan's skull was fractured. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Bilheimer, Fort Worth, injured in the same crash, were reported recovering from minor injuries Monday at Wesley hospital. Their car collided with the one driv… more
Date: August 12, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0446]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This diagram at the scene shows how Mrs. Bernice Freeman was killed Sunday night in the 3200 block South Robinson avenue. Darting from the east curb, she ran out of the path of one car and was hit by a second, throwing her back beneath the first car."
Date: November 18, 1935
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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