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[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.
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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.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
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