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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0055]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning, twisted wreckage of oil-filled railroad tank cars after a derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0610]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Gold star mother and now president of Pioneer chapter, American War Mothers, Mrs. Myrtle Clepper, 2325 Mustang, Del City, doesn't let a broken leg hinder her in helping veterans."
Date: March 28, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0826]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert Clifford Jr., (above) is being sought by police today, in the tragic slayings of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clifford, Sr. and a brother, Ronald, 14, the bodies riddled with bullets, were found in the Clifford home."
Date: March 13, 1958
Creator: Internation News Photos
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0300]

Description: Photograph is of a man looking with a flashlight into the interior of a automobile that is charred from a previous fire. Burnt debris and rubble surround the car and the man's feet. Caption: "Ruins of a once sparkling new automobile are probed by E. G. Wintermute, El Reno secretary-treasurer of Samples Buick Co, which was gutted by a $50,000 fire Saturday."
Date: March 24, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0254]

Description: Caption: "Oklahoma traffic courts and laws may be in for hard spanking, but it will be the sort if chastisement a loving parent gives for a child's good. Out in Oklahoma's state library in the capitol, a studious, analytical man is leafing through state traffic laws and court holdings." Picture of man.
Date: March 12, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0558]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss Anita Ellerbee, 1119 NW 38, practicing city attorney, examines one of the law books in her office. The jovial, ruddy-complexioned woman has been a lawyer for 13 years. She is one of very few women who are actively engaged in the practice of law in Oklahoma City."
Date: March 18, 1958
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413.0317]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Silver awards for outstanding work in behalf of the Oil Information Committee of API were presented to 10 state oil men during the last week at a luncheon in Oklahoma City."
Date: March 16, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0078]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maria Luisa Cappellini, 18 ,receives a ring from her stepfather, Nicola Patelli, ( picture above) who acted as a stand in for Maria's childhood sweetheart, Lorenzo Chisrotti , 23 , now a U.S. airman , in proxy wedding in Rome Wednesday."
Date: March 20, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0050]

Description: A daylight photograph showing damage at the Shattuck Grain Company elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. The damage was caused by explosions after a train derailment involving oil-filled tank cars. Caption: "The wreck occurred near the elevator of the Shattuck Grain Co. shown in one photograph."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0307]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fed by Oklahoma City TV teacher George Downing was a lively illustration for a science lesson beamed at elementary pupils over the state educational channel KETA-TV Monday."
Date: March 3, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289.0154]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New officers of the Oklahoma chapter of Dance Masters of America, were on hand Sunday to greet registrants for the group's first state convention."
Date: March 8, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0049]

Description: Photograph is of twisted metal with train cars wrecked, smashed, and still smoking in the background. A small group of people are surveying the damage near the pile of wrecked train cars. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0070.0125]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the best known figures if the Philippines will be speaking at the 1958 meeting of the southwest area council of YMCA's starting here Thursday for three days."
Date: March 16, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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