4,190 Matching Results

Search Results

[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0544]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New chairman of the State Corrections Board is Frank Carey, Oklahoma City, left, elected today to succeed Irvine Ungerman, Tulsa, who resigned Monday at Gov. Boren's request. With Carey is Tulsan Terry Young who was named to the board to replay Ungerman."
Date: October 21, 1975
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3566]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First bidding on paving of the Oklahoma City-Tulsa toll road brought spirited competition Tuesday in the showdown of the fight between Portland cement concrete and ashphaltic concrete. Here is a view of contractors and spectators getting ready with sharpened pencils and tally sheets when the turnpike authority opened the bids in the highway commission meeting room in the capitol office building."
Date: October 29, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0924.0526]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three-year turnpike veteran Vernon Myers "takes off" a trucker at his toll booth lane on the Oklahoma City end of the Turner Turnpike. Myers knows many truckers by name, being a veteran toll worker on the 27-year-old turnpike, which connects OKC and Tulsa."
Date: October 1, 1980
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1198.1037]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Clary Spencer, owner of the Spencer Vlley Ranch where he raises Quarterhorses near the couthern entarnce of the Turner Turnpike, is a little more optimistic."
Date: October 3, 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0189]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Maine Officials Welcome Visiting Oklahomans, here to gather data on Maine Turnpike construction, were welcomed today at a breakfast in the Eastland Hotel."
Date: October 23, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0348]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crossroads of American is this interchange northeast of Oklahoma City where the Raymond Gary expressway links with the Oklahoma turnpike system as well as the west ground interstate to California."
Date: October 8, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two Illinois couples died in this wreck on the Turner Turnpike west of Sapulpa Wednesday afternoon. The car crashed into a concrete culvert after running off the road. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said today the reasons for the crash have not been determined."
Date: October 16, 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0214]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Gov. Roy J. Turner, left, of Oklahoma, here to view Maine Turnpike contruction, chats at breakfast with Gov. Horace A. Hildreth. This was Governor Turner's first visit to Maine."
Date: October 23, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0354]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The first overpass to be completed on Oklahoma's freeroad link to the Kansas turnpike in Kay county is this four span structure three miles south of the state line."
Date: October 30, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0866]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Brenda Hermosa Jackson, 613 SW 30, driver was killed in this crash near Choctaw. TRAIN HITS CAR; WOMAN DEAD, AUTO SPLIT IN TWO IN CHOCTAW WRECK. State Traffic Deaths 1952 to date, 449; October, 54, 1951 to date, 452; October, 55. A 50-year- old Oklahoma City woman, wife of a Capitol Hill physician, died when a train struck her automobile Monday near Choctaw. A Tulsa dump truck driver was fatally injure… more
Date: October 28, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0776]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Friday afternoon killed the driver of this Tulsa Welding supply truck when a wheel came off near Sapulpa on the Turner Turnpike."
Date: October 9, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1243.0063]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bond Buyers who turnpike officials hope will underwrite state toll road plans began a land-air tour Wednesday of present and proposed turnpikes."
Date: October 6, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen