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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1139]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BUT ONE IS HURT--If the boys who work on oil derricks weren't a nimble-footed and quick-thinking bunch, three of them might have been crushed to death Saturday afternoon in the twisted skeleton of steel pictured above. It was an oil derrick with the capitol in the background a few minutes before the photograph was made. Three rig-builders were remodeling the structure when suddenly the groan of strained joints… more
Date: September 18, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0441]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "DEATH TRAP--Pinned in a coupe overturned in four feet of water in Lake Overholser bypass, two Oklahoma City high school students were drowned Friday night. They were in the water 45 minutes before firemen arrived, pulled the car 20 feet to the shore and extricated them. Here is the wrecked auto as it was pulled to the bank, and inset is a photo of Jennie Lee Heller, 15 years old, one of the victims."
Date: February 5, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1141]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lives of four men endangered Thursday noon when the crown and traveling blocks of the oil derrick on which they were working pulled loose and fell to the derrick floor at the Travis Petroleum Co.'s Lucas No. 3 well, Northeast Fourth street and Eastern avenue. The crew was pulling pipe when the crash came. The crew--pictured in the lower photo--included Harold Griffin, 22 years old, 2800 Northeast Tenth street… more
Date: February 4, 1937
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0440]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car driven by Jack Jackson that plunged into Lake Overholser, killing Jennie Lee Heller and Phillip Le Vite."
Date: February 5, 1937
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0439]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Scene of accident when car driven by Jack Jackson that plunged into Lake Overholser, killing Jennie Lee Heller and Phillip Le Vite."
Date: February 5, 1937
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1138]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This pile of debris in the sunken garden of the statehouse was all that was left Thursday of an oil derrick which collapsed during the lunch exodus of capitol office workers. The well is (was) the No. 10 Capital of the Sunray Oil Co. A "deadman" holding a pulley block which suspended 6,500 feet of rod in the well gave way, throwing an uneven weight suddenly on the derrick structure causing it to crumple."
Date: August 12, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0438]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWO OTHERS INJURED--Two men met instant death early Wednesday when their trucks crashed head-on on a hill two miles west of Ringwood. The dead, both drivers, are Raymond Beauchamp, 32 years old, Enid and Donald Ellis, 20 years old, Bristow. Seriously injured were Noble Pritchett, 30 years old, Enid, riding with Beauchamp, and Jim Ellis, 25 years old, Bristow, who was riding with his brother. The above picture shows Capt. H… more
Date: November 18, 1937
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
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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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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