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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0208]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Driver Disappears After Car Plows Into City House Police Friday were looking for the driver of this car after it crashed into the home of Miss Josephine Jackson, 70, of 1011 N Phillips, late Thursday night. Chargers of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident were filed against the license tag number of the auto. Damage to the house included boards and window screen broken, part of foundation and w… more
Date: January 7, 1955
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0585]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A stark skeleton is all that remains of a timber-dusting airplane after it crashed and burned near Wapanucka Wednesday morning, killing the pilot, Jesse Linton Barker, 31, of Tahlequah."."
Date: June 16, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0004]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wild Boxcar Rams Train at City Station. A wild freight car, mis-switched in the Santa Fe station yard here Saturday morning, plowed into the side of two Pullman cars entering the station on elevated tracks from the south."
Date: January 15, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0580]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Sam Privitt, Longview Texas, is comforted by RaymondTunnard, Primrose Ambulance Driver, after she was injured seriously in a two-car collision five miles east of Norman on SH 9 Tuesday. Two other persons were injured seriously in the accident."
Date: August 2, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0831]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "When Franklin Harris, 1724 SE 29, Oklahoma City, tried to drive his double tank trailer truck under an overpass on the Frisco valley railway near Cache, Comanche county, late Tuesday he messed things up right."
Date: February 23, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0215]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Was a Cadillac Before It Hit a 'Safety Island,' Killing Its Driver. This is what was left of a 1951 Cadillac after it hit a "safety" island early Monday at SE 29 and Eastern. The driver, Urban C. Hawkins, 42, chief petty officer at the Norman navy base, was thrown out of the car and killed to become Oklahoma City's first traffic fatality in 99 days."
Date: February 14, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0224]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO BOYS ON A TOY WAGON were injured critically Wednesday, when hit by a car in the 2500 block NW 33. They were identified in Mercy hospital as Donald Bowman, 9, son of Mrs. Mittie Jo Bowman, 2537 NW 33, and Stephen Riddles, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Riddles, 2036 NW 22. The car was driven by Joanne Sue Holmes, 16, of 2736 NW 21. She said she was blinded by the sun."
Date: September 22, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0219]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BEN BENHAM HAD THE ONLY DRIVE-IN shoe shop in the Oklahoma City Monday after a motorist bashed in the front of his store at 1726 NE 23. He had to brave sub-freezing temperature to wait on El Wanda Clary, 3939 NW 27, Emil Jerome Cejda, 21, of 917 NW 23, was booked at city jail on charges of drunkenness and driving under the influence after his car rammed another and plunged into the store front."
Date: November 28, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0209]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO DOCTORS AND A NURSE WERE HURT Thursday in a wreck on the S Walker viaduct. Dr. Clarence Oscar Epley, 73, of 3124 N Youngs, suffered a broken leg, wrist and cheek bone when his car, above, was struck head-on by a car which, police said, veered across the center line. The other driver, Dr. Presse M. Paul jr., 29, of 830 NW 24, and passenger , Miss Pearline Carroll, 29, of 101 NE 3, were injured. Miss. Carroll… more
Date: September 23, 1955
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0672]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A SLIGHT SCRATCH ON HIS FOREHEAD was all Leroy H. Cowden, 33. of 2433 NW 3, received when his 11/2 ton truck skidded off the pavement and rolled down a 25-foot dirt embankment at the south end of a river bridge on S. Eastern Tuesday."
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0582]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This large crater and one smaller one show the force with which a jet fighter plane crashed Monday afternoon five miles southwest of Lindsay, narrowly missing a farm home."
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: Rhaodes, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0575]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Berger: notes for cut line on the Eugene Harrington [ or Kerrington] fatal auto accident six miles east of Shawnee late Wednesday evening on U. S. 270 highway. Harrington auto is the light colored vehicle in the foreground. Harrington died at 1;40 a.m. Thursday in a Shawnee hospital. The accident put six other persons in a Shawnee hospital. Harrington lived in Seminole, formerly of Konawa. James White, wife and… more
Date: February 9, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0885]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CAR SPLATTERED IN FATAL CRASH WITH TRAIN HERE, A broadside collision with a Diesel freight engine Friday midnight left this twisted remnant of a 1953 sedan at the Rock Island tracks on Portland. The driver, Don Arlo Lauderdale, 25, of 4241 NW 13, was thrown 51 feet and killed. Impact gutted the car's mechanism, tossing the motor 66 feet away."
Date: January 8, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0676]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Truck driver Lewis Hawkins, 106 NE 38, knew he had lost something Wednesday when he turned into an alley in the unit block NW 4."
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0206]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Driver Hits Two Men, Escapes A hit-and-run driver abandoned his car and left his two victims lying in the street with painful injuries early Tuesday in the 200 block W Reno. The victims, both pedestrians, were taken to Mercy hospital Clayborn Clifford Davis, 31, Binger, suffered a broken right leg and was admitted for treatment. Robert D. Alexander, 42, of 900 N Broadway, received bruises and abrasions. He was … more
Date: May 24, 1955
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0834]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT but two Marietta men were jailed for drunkenness Sunday after their pickup crashed through a barrier and tried to cross this unfinished bridge over Hickory creek north of Marietta on U.S. 77."
Date: June 5, 1955
Creator: Kelly, Ray B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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