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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0171]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Thursday is Thanksgiving. It is a day to give thanks for your blessings -- a day of joy. If you are careless for one moment, however, you may wind up in a picture such as this, So if you get out on the highway this holiday, be careful and alert. don't let death put its shadow over your happy holiday. Careless driving habits are constantly checked by licensing bureau and driver improvement bureau officials to prevent a… more
Date: February 27, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0139]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DEATH CAR is viewed by curious spectators at Northwest highway and Portland Wednesday night after a two-car crash which killed Charlotte Mo Henry, about 40, of 3320 N Robinson. She was a passenger in the car above which was driven by Robert Glenn Cody, 40 of 4216 NW 28. Cody and two persons in the other car, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Culbertson, were hurt. Culbertson car exploded in flames."
Date: September 11, 1957
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0358]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Enid to State Desk; Cut lines for crash....; Death in a model A(cap) came to John R. Jacobs, 73, who was driving this 1929 model car when it collided with another vehicle driven by Vernie B. Stoddard, 45, of Camargo. The crash, which occurred five miles west of Catxx Canton on SH 52, Literally demolished the old timer car, fatally injuring the elderly Canton man. Jacob's died in Uniexx University hospital in Ok… more
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: Thomas, M.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0147]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "INJURED BUT ALIVE, Mrs. Mary Frances Green, 42, Wichita Falls, Texas is carried from the scene of an auto accident which killed two persons Wednesday southwest of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Green's two sons suffered serious injuries in the accident. All were taken to Wesley hospital. They were passengers in an auto driven by W. O. Hunter, Houston, assistant fire chief."
Date: July 25, 1957
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0027]

Description: Photograph shows a man wearing a white hard hat behind a metal table with a pile of objects, such as a hand-gun, on it. The background shows a burned wall with two open windows in the center.
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0359]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "When this car vaulted over a viaduct Saturday at Norman, Photographer 2/c John Steve Smizer was killed. His wife and 7 year old son., Larry had minor injuries."
Date: August 27, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0369]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the wreckage in which three people died north of Lexington just before midnight Saturday night. All three of the dead were members of a Texas family. State Road Toll Climbs to 400 Muskogee Man is Latest Fatality STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1956 to date 400; August 23. 1955 to date 340; August 19. The 1956."
Date: August 13, 1956
Creator: Wilson, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0687]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "THIS IS the crumpled top of a semi-trailer truck that failed to negotiate a rail-road underpass on NE 10 east of Eastern."
Date: April 10, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0338]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ONE YOUTH DIED and another was critically injured Thursday when his English sports car flipped into a deep ditch south of Norman. Richard Douglas de Lee of Shreveport, LA., was dead on arrival at a Norman Hospital. The driver, Michael Nichols, 2736 NW 17, was seriously injured. The youths, both 19, are University of Oklahoma students. Oil from the car's engine streams down the hood."
Date: April 12, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0043]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 5-year-old Edmond child suffered critical injuries at NW 23 and Broadway Wednesday when the automobile, center, driven by her mother was struck at the intersection. A 5-year-old Edmond girl was in critical condition in Wesley hospital Wednesday night after an automobile crashed into a car driven by the child's mother at NW 23 and Broadway. The Young victim, Pamela Ann Ricker, daughter of Mrs. Norma Jean Ricke… more
Date: December 12, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0180]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE DEAD, FIVE INJURED was the result of this head-on crash Tuesday on NE 23 and Shady Nook, about eight miles east of the state capitol. An expectant mother, Mrs.Barbara Camp, 20, of Edmond was fatally injured. Her husband, Leon, 24, was hurt as well as a family of four from Venice, Calif. They are Henry Joiner, 41, his wife Emma R., 36, and their two children, Mike, 12, and Mary,16. The Camp car is shown at … more
Date: July 3, 1957
Creator: Dodson, Buddy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0325]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "COUNTING HIS BLESSINGS Thursday was Melvin E. Darrah, 40, Haysville, Kan. after his car missed a curve south of Okarche on U.S. 81. Darrah, who patrol troopers said apparently went to sleep at the wheel, was on his way to Calumet to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. He was not hurt."
Date: November 29, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0688]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "IRRESISTIBLE FORCE-in the form of a 12-ton semi-trailer truck met its match early Wednesday when it smashed into an immovable object, a battered concrete railroad overpass on NE 10 east of Eastern."
Date: April 10, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0163]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car and hole in wall. Explanation, next picture. GAPING HOLE was smashed through the wall of a doctor's clinic at 2509 S Agnew Tuesday when a car spun out of control following a traffic accident. Here, police accident investigator J. M. Watson checks damage. Several patients inside the clinic escaped injury but car's driver, Mrs. Mary Ann Tierce, 46, of 1044 SW 30, was hospitalized with a possible fractured knee and la… more
Date: October 15, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0024

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of charred wreckage after a structural fire. Caption: "This was the scene of desolation after the disastrous fire last year."
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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