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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0568]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This mass of wreckage marks the end of flights for two men who died when this small plane crashed to earth near Hobart. The victims were Capt. Eber J. Neeley jr., of Lubbock, Texas, and Maj. Theodore R. Bowdish, 40, of Waldorf, Md."
Date: February 10, 1958
Creator: Neal, Clara
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0550]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Power Failure on takeoff caused the pilot of this airplane to take to the weed patch near Downtown air park Sunday afternoon rather that risk flying over houses to get outside the city."
Date: July 14, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0682]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Truck line employees used quick-thinking and an "A-Frame" winch truck to haul this gasoline-laden transport to safety early Saturday after the transport crashed into a new bridge addition."
Date: May 10, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0557]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Four mechanics attached to the civil aeronautics administration center at Will Rogers field were killed early Wednesday when the single engine plane they were in went into the ground near Yukon, apparently under full power."
Date: February 19, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0558]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Blazing Fragments of one wing remain to mark the scene of Tinker air force base pilot Bernard J. Bogoslofski's second brush with death in one month."
Date: March 25, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0315]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Students Are Hurt in Crash, NORMAN-- two University of Oklahoma students were injured, neither critically, in a one-car crash near fraternity row early Friday. Norman police said the driver, Thomas Kanard, Muskogee, Student, was driving south on Elm street about 1 a.m. when the crash missed a curve, bounced over a curb, and rolled 185 feet across an open field before landing upside down. Injured were Pat Smith, 18,… more
Date: December 11, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4636]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bridges are big around Oklahoma City anymore. This massive affair is the three-level interchange on Raymond Gary expressway which is the reason for the Reno detour. Note the tiny figure of a man framed by the bridges. He's at work on a structure which will tie together traffic on the expressway, the Tinker diagonal and the downtown throughway."
Date: September 16, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9077]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "(photo a lady customer getting a ticket for travel from a guy in a suit, an arrivals/departures boards behind him, and more)"
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2311]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is an airview of the Carroll community estate involved in the criminal action filed Friday morning in district court. At right is home developer Fred Newman says he gave selected investments vice-president Bill Rigg, which Rigg later sold for $26,000. On estate proper, from left, are servants quarters and 4-car garage; house of Julia Moore (who now is Mrs. Carroll); the Hugh Carroll, and Bill Rigg home...Carroll … more
Date: April 3, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wheat Harvest was in full swing over much of Oklahoma Tuesday, although it came to a temporary halt in the central part of the state after rains late Monday. Here is a typical scene, taken near Yukon, on the Oklahoma and Canadian county line. The driver is Jim Knight, 14, for the father and owner. Harold Knight. The field here is producing about 25 bushels to the acre."
Date: June 8, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2483]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fifty-four passengers, 2,000 pounds of cargo, plus fuel," mutters Roy Tilburry, 4522 NW 44, Braniff load agent. "Now where is the center of gravity of that aircraft?"
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2482]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "That pleasant voice at reservations is typified by Donna Mashburn, 2112 Mehl Dr., reservation clerk for Central Airlines at Will Rogers. She is just one small but vital cog in the vast wheel that turns the airlines."
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0461]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the wreckage in which three men died Friday night in a crash west of here. Three men, one of then apparently from Oklahoma City, were killed late Friday in the crash of a storm-tossed airforce B-25 that went down west of here, just across the Canadian county line. Wreckage of the plan, missing since 9:30 p.m., was discovered Saturday morning by an unidentified private pilot. Officials of Vance ai… more
Date: March 29, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6943]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "More room! That, in a couple of simple words, is the reason Putnam City highschool students and teachers are so happy with their new home. "Those wide hallways are sure nice," principal Leo Mayfield said Thursday. Betweem classes, the 1,200 students shift in lanes twice as wide as those in the old NW 39 building. "How much more room have we got?" Mayfield said. "well, there are 30 acres out here..." That's the par… more
Date: September 10, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1596]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Crowd of space-curious youngsters gathered early in the Zebra room of the Municipal Auditorium to see some of the out-of-this-world exhibits prepared by the Air Force for Thursday's Frontiers of the Space Age conference. This group is viewing a cutaway model of what is proposed as a manned space station. It would be a modified version of the Atlas missile and was designed by Krafft Ehricke, one of the six scientists w… more
Date: April 30, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0206]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Biggest Plate glass sheets in the southwest, especially made to 3/8-inch thick to withstand Oklahoma winds-the strongest ever made in the nation-were being installed Tuesday in the new Local Savings & loan building. Dick Jones, of Pittsburgh Glass Co., said the job is so important that pictures are being made for use all of the nation to show techniques and tools used. The glass is in sections 70 by 232 inches, and is… more
Date: September 16, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9380]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Plans and specification for the first leg of Oklahoma City's long-sought, $4 million N Broadway expressway are nearing completion and bids for the work may be taken in September. Dave Benham of Benham Engineering Co., designers of the project, said Wednesday the section of the expressway between the U.S. 66 bypass and Britton road should be ready for advertising for bids by the Oklahoma highway department in approximat… more
Date: 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5735]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "More than 20 over the road trucks hauling supplies to Tinker airforce base warehouses refused to cross picket lines of Teamsters Local 886 at Gate 3 of the installation Monday morning at the union returned lines across all base entrances. Regular Tinker personnel - civilain and military - entered the base through regular gates and no noticeable reduction in regular working forces was reported. "We are honoring Page Ai… more
Date: February 3, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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