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[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0539]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cattle cross Turner Turnpike in calm, serene ease through stockpasses like this Oklahoma county crossing, in a score of places along the new superhighway."
Date: January 7, 1954
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0890]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Disregarded by the big blow was an electric fan at the home of Walter Wright, caretaker of the Elks club hall north of Shawnee."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0900]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Windblown chicken, center, who lost tailfeathers to the twister, scratches in bewilderment amidst wreckage in the yard of the Robert Knesek jr. farm, east of Meeker."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0887]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tornado wreckage viewers Sunday found the stove of the Shawnee Elks clubhouse dangling precariously on the sagging second floor of the building, left."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0888]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tornado wreckage viewers Sunday found the stove of the Shawnee Elks clubhouse dangling precariously on the sagging second floor of the building, left."
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0880]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Thirty state communities were hit by a rash of tornadoes Saturday and left a toll of dead, injured and property damage amounting to more than $1 million."
Date: 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3775]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tentative routes for Oklahoma's three new toll roads are shown in the above map in black lines. The routes were approved Tuesday by the Turnpike authority. As submitted by Deleuw, Cather & Co., consulting engineers, the plan calls for six interchanges on the Tulsa-Joplin route, five on the Oklahoma City-Wichita, Kansas route and eight interchanges on the Oklahoma City to Randlett road. the three new roads were authorized… more
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0491]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Three new turnpike measures were approved by Oklahoma voters Tuesday although 41 out of 77 counties voted against the construction of the new roads."
Date: January 27, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0489]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is a map of the modern-day race for transportation recognition, which some observers claim is as important as the race for railroads in an earlier generation."
Date: January 15, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3553]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Safe, dry roadway shows why motorists like the Turner Turnpike, and especially why cross-country trucks flock to the toll road when bad weather begins. Despite heavy snow this week, the turnpike was clear. There were no sharp, icy curves, no slick hills and no danger of head-on collisions."
Date: January 22, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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