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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0532]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Killed in this plane crackup near Holdenville was C. A. Dahse, 26, Big Spring, Texas, businessman, who was the object of wide-spread search for two days."
Date: June 21, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0173]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "TWO PERSONS WERE HURT Saturday when these cars slammed together on rain slick pavement at NW 18 and Lynn. One car bust into flames, but firemen quickly extinguished the blaze. Injured were Leora Brockhouse, 50, of 2833 NW 14, and Jimmy Dunlap, 21, of 1716 NW 4."
Date: September 21, 1957
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0508]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "ESCAPING FROM A BLAZING INFERNO, truck driver James Cook, 37, Shawnee, was able to walk away from his gasoline transport after it jack-knifed and burst into flames on Se 29, 5 miles east of Tinker AFB. Cook lost control of the truck, and it flipped over, coming to an upright position blocking the rad. Cook, who freed himself from the demolished cab, was taken to Mercy Hospital."
Date: July 21, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0349]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "KILLED IN THIS CAR crash was an 8-year-old, Tampa, Texas boy, Gene Luster. The boy was killed Friday night when a car driven by his mother, Mrs. Wanda June Luster, 25, went out of control on SH 152, 8 miles east of Sayre, and crashed into a bridge. Mrs. Luster and her 18 month old daughter, Sharon, were critically injured in the crash."
Date: September 21, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1076]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Traffic officer J. D. Robertson surveys accident scene in the 400 block of SE 59 where two women were injured when their cars collided. Carolyn Jane Woods, 24, of 3020 SW 22, driver of the crushed compact car Robertson examines, is listed in stable condition at Hillcrest Hospital with head and internal injuries. Driver of the second car, Sun K. Badillo, 39, of 1301 SW 61, was treated at Hill crest and released."
Date: September 21, 1977
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0285]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 60-year-old woman was shaken up Tuesday when her station wagon collided with an auto at NW 80 and Military, jumped the curb, knocked over a fireplug and crashed into the corner of a brick house. Officer W.J. Marshall said Nell Knight Kerns, 60, of 1017 N. McKinley, driver of the station wagon, apparently escaped serious injury but was taken to Wesley Hospital for chest X - rays. Marshall said the auto involved in the… more
Date: April 21, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0743]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This truck loaded with ice cream overturned today after it collided with a car in the 8400 block of the Northeast Expressway. Cecil William Morrow, 2637 Edgewood, driver of the car, was killed in the 3:45 a.m. crash. A passenger in Morrow`s auto and the truck driver were injured."
Date: December 21, 1974
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0686]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A BLINDING SNOW STORM plus an icy road put this semi-trailer truck in a ditch Tuesday night when it skidded off an access road near the new Baptist Memorial hospital northwest of the city."
Date: January 21, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0348]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "KILLED IN THIS CAR crash was an 8-year-old Tampa, Texas boy, Gene Luster. The boy was killed Friday night when a car driven by his mother, Mrs. Wanda June Luster, 25, wet out of control on SH 152, * miles east of Sayre, and crashed into a bridge, Mrs. Luster and her 18 month old daughter, Sharon, were critically injured in the crash."
Date: September 21, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1386]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Three youths miraculously escaped death Saturday morning when the car they were in smashed headlong into a utility pole and overturned at E Reno and Byers."
Date: August 21, 1965
Creator: Crowder, Russ
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0356]

Description: An airplane setting on one wheel and its propeller. The cabin door on the pilot's side is open. The windshield is in tact and three bystanders are looking through it. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Plane Takes Punch on Nose."
Date: August 21, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1287]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Giving up after 2 1/2-hour wait for help, John Gille, 16, and brother James, 14, climb up embankment and head for classes at Harding High School Monday."
Date: February 21, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1037]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "if company arrives unexpectedly our Homemaker only has to go to the family food freezer and pick out her whole meal."
Date: September 21, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0339]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "NO WARNING SIGNS ever were erected on this county line road southeast of Harrah after it washed out in spring floods. The death of an Oklahoma City barber, Charles W. Musgrove, 31, of 4100 SE 11, Tuesday night followed the above accident. Musgrove, Traveling south at 9 P.M. along the Oklahoma-Pottawatomie county line, apparently failed to see the washout and his car plunged into the ditch."
Date: August 21, 1957
Creator: Dodson, Buddy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1123]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Disastrous as it looks, the man and two women caught in this morning rush hour crash on S Villa at I-40 escaped serious injury."
Date: March 21, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7082]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Millwoods's school bus slide into a ditch at NE 67th and Kelly Monday morning while other cars inched their way along. About 40 pupils waited on the bus until another bus reached the scene. A little farther down the road, another school bus stalled."
Date: February 21, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9952]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Only Things that were high-talled about Tuesday's opening night of the annual Oklahoma City Charity Horse Show were the animal entrants. They were very high-tailed. Other than the horses, the show was a simple demonstration of some very good reasons why man might try getting a horse. Never having seen a horse show, we doubted the pleasure of watching the event. We even looked it up in Webster to be sure about wh… more
Date: May 21, 1968
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5007]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Left, Skirvin's 2,500-tp-3,000-seat. $2 million facility is in lesser stages of construction. It will be completed in early December and open in January. Although Skirvin's is about one-third larger than Sheraton-Oklahoma ballroom, the latter is still billed as "largest west of the Mississippi," a Sheraton spokesman chuckled."
Date: September 21, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9865]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Want list: Supplementing our cover display are these other examples of troubles that could be eased if Oklahoma Cityans approve the proposed earnings tax next Tuesday. At the top, light waves of "tidal" proporations from Times Photographer George Tapscott's auto headlights dramatize the rollercoster shock motorists get when they hit the big bumps at NW 29 and Drexel. George sent his wife across the intersection in the… more
Date: October 21, 1963
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1407]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mississippi towboat, the Patrick D. Coudon, eases bargeload of new Port of Catoosa, offically opening the port, and becoming the first commercial traffic to traverse the recently completed 440-mile Arkansas-Verdigris Navigation System. The other Oklahoma port on the system, the Port of Muskogee, will be dedicated by Gov. Hall and other dignitaries, in afternoon ceremonies today."
Date: January 21, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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