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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Purcell firemen and railroad workers spray down an errant switch engine after it was purposely derailed following a 35-mile unmanned run from Oklahoma City."
Date: November 27, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.B0053.0109]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Rock Island Twin-Star Rocket passenger was derailed in the yards here early Tuesday morning injuring four of the 96 passengers, one seriously."
Date: June 23, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0098]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Some of the nine Rock Island freight cars lost their wheels in a mishap Sunday when they overturned as 14 cars of the train derailed east of Hydro Sunday."
Date: July 19, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0097]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Derailed cars litter track after 14 derailed Sunday morning about five miles east of Hydro in Caddo County."
Date: July 19, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
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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
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