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[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0371]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Temporary toll gate attendant Rena Johnston watches gate Supervisor Tom Lewisre move a jammed quarter from one of the toll machines in the northbound lanes of the new H. E. Bailey Turnpike toll gate Monday morning."
Date: March 7, 1995
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0372]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If the H. E. Bailey Turnpike is on your route this is the sign that will greet you at the Newcastle gate of the brand new turnpike."
Date: January 6, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0357]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These concrete piers and steelwork will support a 2-lane county road overpass about five miles southwest of the northern terminal of the turnpike."
Date: November 6, 1962
Creator: Granger, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0354]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two bridges to replace the old Newcastle bridge over the South Canadian river on U. S. 62-277 south of Oklahoma city are about 80 percent complete."
Date: June 1, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0026]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Built for $300,000 in 1922 and no longer used, the Newcastle bridge seems to stare down in disdain from its ten 35-foot-high ornate steel trusses as modern-day traffic rushes past on SH62."
Date: August 1, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0585]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Disputed passage now under fire from Joe Cannon and his task force of county spending investigators is the 3,000 bridge (arrow) built by McClain County commissioners on the Smith Hester ranch near Purcell."
Date: October 20, 1959
Creator: Lambert, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0850]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Heavy truck and 450 cases of beer were reduced to smoldering ruins shortly before midnight Monday when the carrier driven by Austin Stephen, route 5, Oklahoma City, crashed over a railing on Newcastle bridge on US 62. The truck driver, show said he went to sleep while at the wheel, was not seriously injured."
Date: September 15, 1947
Creator: Meek
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0184]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tipped at a precarious angle, the Santa Fe Chief leans along siding near Purcell where 10 of 13 cars derailed Thursday"
Date: December 19, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0197]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Christmas travelers who for a time were left without transportation Thursday at Purcell when the Santa Fe Chief derailed , wait in line to board special buses to Dallas, Houston and points south."
Date: December 19, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0766]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FIREMAN DIED and a Newcastle women and her 6-year- old son were critically injured in a head-on collision of these two trucks on U.S. 62 north of Newcastle, police said."
Date: April 7, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0666]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "PIKE PILEUP Three persons were injured Saturday night when this northbound car crashed into the H.E. Bailey Turnpike gate near Newcastle. One of the injured was pinned in the wreckage a brief time, the Highway Patrol said. Turnpike employees in the booths had time to escape the careening car and were not injured."
Date: November 25, 1978
Creator: Hoke, Doug
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0027]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "ALMOST COMPLETED is one of the twin bridges which will join the old Newcastle bridge in carrying U.S. 62 and 277 traffic across the South Canadian River."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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