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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5288]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 20m.p.h. speed limit on the newly opened section of the South Canadian River Bridge on the Indian Nation Turnpike is getting some special enforcement, a turnpike authority spokesman said. Highway patrol troopers are carfully monitoring traffic along the bridge, which was closed Jan. 15 when a pier on the bridge shifter, state turnoike authority spokesman Bill Walter said. An unmanned highway patrol care has been parked … more
Date: 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0139]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ed Jagman's watercolor "Taking the Turnpike" holds the attention of Mr. and Mrs. John Grantham at the Oklahoma Museum of Art."
Date: April 4, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5287]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a bridge with signs on each side for "slow bridge repair 20 m.p.h. across bridge," the two lanes on the left in operation, the two on the right being worked on, cars on the road, and more. Backside handwriting: "Indian Nation Turnpike (closed when a pier on the bridge shifted on Jan 15.)")"
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0837]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "RED RIVER BRIDGE is coming down on U. S. 277-281 to make way for a new two-lane bridge, built in 1926, has been considered a major obstacle to getting interstate highway designation for the H. E. Bailey Turnpike in southwest Oklahoma."
Date: December 2, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0668]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Double impact twisted this car that carried four persons to their death early today into a nearly unrecognizable heap of burn-scarred sheet metal, WELLSTON ----- A 17-year-old Oklahoma City youth, his 11-year-old-twin brother and sister and a 17-year-old girlfriend died in a fiery pre-dawn crash today on the Turner Turnpike near the Lincoln-Oklahoma county line, the highway patrol reported. The dead were identi… more
Date: November 24, 1976
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0633]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This truck and trailer rig loaded with peers burned Saturday after overturning on the Turner Turnpike near Wellston in Lincoln County. The driver, Jim A. Borror, 30, Muncie, Ind., and passenger Chester E. Delaney, 51, Xenia, Ohio, were admitted to Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City with burns. Both were listed in satisfactory condition, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. The truck overturned and caught fire about 8:4… more
Date: July 22, 1976
Creator: Thompson, Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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