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[Photograph 2012.201.B0250.0512]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Luther Harrison, for 35 years editorial writer for the Daily Oklahoman, died Friday afternoon in St. Anthony hospital after a two-year illness he endured with characteristic grit and humor. He was 81."
Date: March 9, 1949
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1143]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMETHING BIG GOES WRONG, Weakened by heavy jerks designed to dislodge whip stock apparatus after the pulling of tons of pipe, the wreckage shown above shows vividly what happens when a towering steel derrick collapses and crashes to earth. In this tangled network of steel Claude L. Hight, 38-year-old field worker, was crushed to death late Sunday night. Another workman high up in the derric… more
Date: March 9, 1942
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1140]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OIL WORKER RUNS WRONG WAY, DIES UNDER DERRICK-Sudden death was the fate of Claude L. Hight, 38-years-old oil field worker, who ran toward his parked automobile instead of dodging from the path of a falling oil derrick in the 300 block Southeast Thirty-eight street late Sunday night. The picture shows how the tangled tons of steel crushed Hight's car, parked about 100 feet from the derrick."
Date: March 9, 1942
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0540]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three states were represented when aviation friends of James "Uncle Jim" Brazell honored him on his seventy-fourth birthday Saturday night."
Date: March 9, 1942
Creator: Ginter, G. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0271]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the scene in front of the Nichols Hills Transportation Co. bus depot at 316 W. Grand Tuesday as pickets paraded on the walk in a dispute over drivers union recognition."
Date: March 9, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1094.0239]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If a picture really worth 10,000 words, this traffic layot will save Owen Smith traffic engineer, severl million minites of explanation. James Robinson, left, investigator in the traffic control department is explaining features of the angle parking policy to Allen Staver, department draftsman."
Date: March 9, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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