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[2012.201.B0423.0177]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing two baseball caps sideways on his head, smoking a pipe, and reading the newspaper in a suit and tie. Caption: "A Fitzpatrick mystery- Old Hawkshaw himself, solving the daily budget of murders and kidnappings and the mystery of how ballplayers get along in the winter months, is Jack Fitzpatrick, former Oklahoma City Indian catcher."
Date: January 20, 1938
Creator: Mumblow, Milt
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0435]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Automobiles killed 667 persons in Oklahoma last year, left 18,009 injured, including 1,800 permanently hurt, in the wake of their blood-smeared tires. The new figures, released Saturday by the safety department of the highway commission, are based on statistics issued by the state health department, and vary slightly from previous ones. Injury totals were computed from national averages. Furthermore, injuries of at least… more
Date: January 31, 1937
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0479]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landslide knocks train off tracks wreckage of a crack north bound Kansas City Southern Passenger Train, which was knocked from the tracks by a landslide and plunged over a 25-foot embankment into a river near Sallisaw, Okla., Jan. 5. Engineer E Benjamin, De Queen, Ark., was killed, and Mrs.Ed Brennan, Kansas City, A passenger slightly injured. Approximately 20 other passengers escaped injury."
Date: January 6, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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