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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0133]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS without sleep caused this accident early Tuesday in the 1400 block E Reno. Paratrooper Virgil G. England jr., Fort Kimball, Ky., en route to his parents' home in Chilocco, escaped serious injury when he fell asleep at the wheel and his auto struck a concrete culvert, overturned and landed on its top in a ditch: Cut and bruised, he crawled from the wreckage, shown being checked by Lieut. T. J. Wilson… more

Date: July 24, 1956

Creator: Kaho, C. J.

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0027]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Wreck Address: 32 & S Oklahoma Assignment: Glenda Herring - Age 13 - Chandler, OK. Lynn Herring - Age 4 - Cushing, OK. Artie Curry - Cushing, OK. Treva Curry - Age 3 - Cushing, OK. Not in Pix: Mrs. Myrtle Herring} Chandler, OK, Mr. George Herring} Chandler, OK."

Date: October 18, 1956

Creator: King, Cliff

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0026]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Store Rocked, Women Hurt By Wild Car. A parked car suddenly started off in reverse in downtown Oklahoma City Friday, ran wild a half block before crashing through a plate glass window at Katz drugstore, Main and Robinson. Two women were hurt, neither believed to be seriously, police reported. They were identified as Mrs. Louise Doyle Clark, 48, 2712 Cashion place, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eunice Clark, 79, A… more

Date: September 1, 1956

Creator: Winford, Wesley

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0046]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "a locksmith, had keys made and turned the cylinders to their proper places. Pino provided the garb worn by the robbers- Halloween masks, jackets, visored caps- and even the rope and adhesive tape to bind the Brink's arms during the robbery. McGinnis stayed at his place of business to establish an alibi.?no stayed in the small light ?ck in which the gang rode to Brink's because of a "certain physical condition.… more

Date: August 31, 1956

Creator: Winford, Wesley

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0034]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONCE A WRAPAROUND, this windshield was abruptly "unwrapped" in a hairbreadth, non-fatal crash Monday evening just south of Oklahoma City on US 77, The driver, Jams A. Ruble, 33, of 2312 N Indiana, in trouble when the car he was passing swerved into his path, managed to miss two cars and a bicyclist but flipped over the center median and rolled into the other traffic lane. He walked away."

Date: October 2, 1956

Creator: Traverse, Austin

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0030]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "POLICE BLAMED A BUG Monday for causing $400 damage to a city water department pump station building at W Reno and Grand boulevard. Mrs. Alma L. Looker, 32, of Bethany, told officers she was driving on W Reno when a bug flew into her blouse. She lost control of her automobile and crashed into the concrete block building housing one of the city's water wells. She went to the water department and identified hersel… more

Date: July 17, 1956

Creator: Winford, Wesley

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0048]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NW 3rd & Bdwy."

Date: April 26, 1956

Creator: Gumm, John

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0038]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A CITY FIREMAN helps the injured driver of this auto after it collided with another car. went out of control for 85 feet and crashed into the side of a brick home at 1116 N McKinley. Fireman Eldon Tinsley and Roy Johnson are shown at the right looking through the gaping hole at Frances Jacobs, 1116 N McKinley, after wreckers removed the car. Only person injured was the driver of the car, Mrs. J. Floyd Moorman, … more

Date: December 28, 1956

Creator: Cobb, Richard

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0051]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BEING PLACED IN AN AMBULANCE is Maria Jane Perkins, 25, of 124 1/2 W California. She suffered multiple bruises early Tuesday when the car shown in the background jumped the curb in the 1000 block S Harvey, ran up a telephone pole guy wire and flipped over on its top. She was treated at Mercy hospital and released. Three other persons in the car escaped injury. Police said the driver, who left the scene on foot,… more

Date: May 15, 1956

Creator: Kaho, C. J.

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0028]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Shoes and scattered vegetables mark the death scene of a heroic Oklahoma City maid. Police officer L.A. Gramling is conducting an investigation. An Oklahoma City maid was killed Tuesday afternoon as she pushed a 5-year-old boy from the path of a careening car in the 3200 block N Ross. The woman, Mrs. Veola Christian Brown, 43, of 2417 NE 14, was hit by a car driven by a 16-year-old girl, knocked 81 feet, and di… more

Date: October 17, 1956

Creator: Winford, Wesley

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0054]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Date: October 17, 1956

Creator: Winford, Wesley

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0153]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper.

Date: November 22, 1956

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0042]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "RESULTS OF A TANGLE between his car and a large city street sweeper truck is shown on the face of William Marion McBride, 30, of 1616 SW 5. McBride suffered face cuts and internal injuries in the crash which occurred in the 700 block S Agnew. He was taken to Mercy hospital."

Date: September 13, 1956

Creator: Kaho, C. J.

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0142]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A TRAFFIC JAM on a rainy street produced this pile-up at NW 30 and Classen Thursday and brought charges against all four motorist. Police said the first automobile, right, driven by Mrs. Jane Calloway Van Cleef, 29 of 2249 Dawn Marie drive, stopped abruptly behind another vehicle. The other three cars piled up, receiving major front end damage. Charged with following too closely in addition to Mrs. Van Cleef were: Clarence… more

Date: December 6, 1956

Creator: Tapscott, George

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0031]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Accident at NE 3 and Phillips Assignment: Delbert Lawrence Cox, 20, 618 NW 8. Driving his brothers car, going south on Phillips was hit by a car driven by Joe Lewis Jackson, 19, causing Cox to loose control, his car flipped and landed on its top, Cox and Grover Cleveland Naves, 25, crawled from the wreck and ran, were later picked up by car 7. Cox was charged with Drunk, Leaving the scene, Driving under the inf… more

Date: October 4, 1956

Creator: Kaho, C. J.

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0049]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NW 3rd and Broadway."

Date: April 27, 1956

Creator: Gumm, John

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0155]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "THE DRIVER WALKED AWAY with only minor bruises after his car tangled with the Byers street bridge Monday. Driver James Andrew Ray, 30, of 1529 NE 15, was thrown out as the car slammed through the bridge approach , snapped a telephone pole and overturned in a ditch. Note broken post resting atop the wreckage. Ray was cited for reckless driving."

Date: May 7, 1956

Creator: Matheson, Mandell

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0141]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The driver died after this car plunged 15 feet into a creek bed 2900 block S May Monday. A 58-year-old man died Monday before he could be freed from the wreckage of his car after a 15-foot plunge into a creek bed in the 2900 block S May. His name may be added to the state's traffic toll, which earlier reached the 300-mark."

Date: July 2, 1956

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0047]

Caption: "CAR DRAGS CITY GIRL 54 FEET IN ACCIDENT ON CROSS-WALK AN 18-YEAR-OLD telephone operator, Ruby Beatrice Pearsh, is unconscious on the pavement (in top picture) after being struck by a car at NW 11 and Dewey Thursday morning. Driver of the car, Mrs. Maxine Farley, 1417 is shown above. A Southwestern Bell Telephone Co, operator was seriously injured Thursday morning when struck by a car as she crossed the street at NW 11 and Dewey. Ruby Beatrice Pearsh, 18, of 215 NW 5, was semi-conscio… more

Date: June 28, 1956

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0131]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper.

Date: October 17, 1956

Creator: Winford, Wesley

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0037]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "EN ROUTE TO HOSPITAL to visit her husband, Mrs. Irene Krogstad, being loaded in ambulance, above, became a patient there herself Thursday afternoon with injuries from a two car collisions at NW 3 and Broadway. Both she and Roy Krogstad, 1200 NW 41, are in Wesley hospital, she for x-ray examination of chest injuries."

Date: April 26, 1956

Creator: Gumm, John

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0036]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CHECKING THE DAMAGED FRONT END of one of two autos involved in a collision Tuesday at NW 23 and Meridian is accident investigator John Magill. Jode Frank Short, 20, of 200 N Beavers, Bethany, driver of the car shown in the foreground, was thrown from his car and suffered a leg injury when the auto collided with a station wagon driven by Howard Lowell Coleman, 32, of 1414 NE 48. Officer Magill said a tree may h… more

Date: April 17, 1956

Creator: Albright, Bob

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0032]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A BROKEN NECK killed Edgar Ward, 38, of 304 SE 55, Wednesday night when this car he was driving at a high rate of speed turned over after a tire blew out near SE 61 and Shields. Witnesses said his car was traveling nearly 75 miles an hour. He was approaching the city from the south."

Date: April 26, 1956

Creator: Kaho, C. J.

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0035]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NW 3rd & Bdwy"."

Date: April 27, 1956

Creator: Gumm, John

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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