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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1102]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's the way Hank McTaggard's midget racer looked after the Wichita driver had been extricated from the wreckage during Monday night's program at Taft stadium. McTaggard's mount collided with another car as they rounded the south turn. The tiny car landed upside down on top of the restraining wall. The driver Tuesday was in a local hospital. He sustained a few cuts and bruises and was to undergo a checkup for… more
Date: August 20, 1946
Creator: Pash, Oral M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1101]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's Ironhead Tex West, handkerchief serving as a dust mask, veteran Dallas midget driver who was pinned in his car along the west rail at Taft stadium Monday night after a crash that sent him to the hospital and stopped the scheduled 30-lap summer sweepstakes after 18 laps. The fortunate West escaped with a burned arm and a dislocated toe, but welding torches were needed to cut him out of the wreckage of the… more
Date: July 14, 1947
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1100]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is the rollover from which Don Brown emerged with both jaws broken. He'll drive at Taft stadium again Monday for the first time since the accident."
Date: July 14, 1947
Creator: Cox, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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