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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0452]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HEAVY ON A MAN--Here is shown the heavily loaded truck which figured in the wreck on Southeast Twenty-ninth street early Sunday morning which took the lives of five persons and still may take a higher toll. In this condition the truck landed in a ditch more than 100 yards from the point of collision and pinned John Taylor, Seminole, the driver, in the crushed cab. To release Taylor, who was seriously injured, it was necess… more
Date: April 18, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0447]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows how an accident Thursday night took the life of 14-year-old Neal Norsworthy, Jr., near the intersection of Classen boulevard and Northwest Twentieth street. As police reconstructed the accident from reports, the boy either was holding to the side of the truck or was attempting to ride his bicycle between the truck and parked car, when the bicycle handlebar caught on the parked car, throwing him benea… more
Date: March 1, 1935
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0470]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is the open road where Monday night's joy ride accident took three lives, injured seven others. The road is visible for 400 yards, in each direction."
Date: October 2, 1935
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0479]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landslide knocks train off tracks wreckage of a crack north bound Kansas City Southern Passenger Train, which was knocked from the tracks by a landslide and plunged over a 25-foot embankment into a river near Sallisaw, Okla., Jan. 5. Engineer E Benjamin, De Queen, Ark., was killed, and Mrs.Ed Brennan, Kansas City, A passenger slightly injured. Approximately 20 other passengers escaped injury."
Date: January 6, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0480]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Enclosed pictures show scenes of the Santa Fe train wreck at Clinton, Sunday night. The accident was caused when the chain on a stray cow on the track derailed the locomotive, piling up the locomotive and 9 stock cars. It was a heavily laden special stock train bound for Kansas. The engineer Frank Galletly, was killed and two members of the train crew injured, some 50 head of cattle killed, hundreds escaped."
Date: May 4, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0209]

Description: Several men surround the tail section of a plane after the Braniff Airways plane wreck. A workman is attaching a winch line. A person in the crowd holds an Extra Edition of The Daily Oklahoman. The headline reads "8 KILLED IN CITY AIR CRASH". Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Braniff Airways crash in city March 26, 1939 which killed 8 people."
Date: April 1, 1939
Creator: Brooks, G.E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0844]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ABOVE TELEPHOTO SHOWS THE REMAINS OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL WESTERN AIR EXPRESS, WHERE EIGHT PERSONS, INCLUDING KNUTE ROCKNE, FAMOUS NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL COACH, WERE KILLED IN A CRASH NEAR BAZAAR, KAN."
Date: March 31, 1931
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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