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[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0077]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There will be freaks at the Oklahoma State Fair, September 25 to October 3, of course - but this isn't one of them."
Date: September 10, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
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 67.0141]

Description: Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0465]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is Doris, of "Doris & Roberts," who so an Apache number in the "Moulin Rouge" on the midway at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: December 2, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0089]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A New High Act from Europe, the Alcidos, are here with the "Fair Follies of '56" as a replacement for Franz W. Stasch, who was killed Labor Day before a Minnesota State fair crowd."
Date: September 24, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0840]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Oscar Cherry, 21 year old Bethany truck driver, died Thursday when his loaded gasoline truck went out of control and overturned near Okemah. The accident happened about 8:30 AM on U.S. 62. Cherry was employed by the Gilmore & Kirk Oil Co."
Date: July 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0280]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's fair time again as these youngsters join other exhibitors Saturday on the Oklahoma City fairground where the State Fair of Oklahoma opens a nine-day run. Loading their Herefords for the fairground trip are Carol Bost, 16, Luter, secretary of Oklahoma County 4-H Club, and Kenny Root, 17 president of Luther Future Farmers of America."
Date: September 23, 1966
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An estimated 25,000 state Catholics converged on the state fairgrounds here Sunday afternoon for elaborate ceremonies celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the church's Oklahoma diocese."
Date: October 9, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Purcell firemen and railroad workers spray down an errant switch engine after it was purposely derailed following a 35-mile unmanned run from Oklahoma City."
Date: November 27, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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