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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0141]

Description: Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0828]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two Killed In Truck-Car Collision Near Konawa Two deaths resulted Sunday night near Konawa when the truck, upper left, driven by Harold Tindall, 31, Tulsa, collided head-on with a car in which V.L. Griswold, 35, Sherman, Texas, and Sam Daniels, 61, Sapulpa, were riding."
Date: May 19, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0675]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Pickup Truck 'Lost,' but Not for Long-Scout car officers who were chasing the pickup truck shown above lost it in traffic at NW 23 and Douglas."
Date: February 20, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0502]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three Are Killed -All three occupants of this automobile were killed Sunday noon in a collision with a Smith & Kernke funeral home ambulance making an emergency run to Harrah. Dead were Felix Raymond Mayer, 31, Harrah, the driver, and Henry Tayler, 44, and his son, Lonnie, 13, of Jones. The ambulance driver and his assistant were not seriously injured. The automobile was hit broadside by the ambulance. Here, a wrecker has … more
Date: June 23, 1952
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1187]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Trapped It took 10 men more than 15 minutes to free Mrs. Fred Groff, 62, Edmond, from the tangle of her pickup truck after collision three miles south of Guthrie Thursday. Mrs. Groff`s truck collided with the trailer of another truck. The entire side of her vehicle was crushed against her. Here two passing motorists finish bending the metal to release Mrs. Groff. She escaped with a laceration below the right kn… more
Date: May 2, 1952
Creator: Burns, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0677]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bystanders and ambulance drivers Thursday pulled the truck shown above from the door of the King's Package cafe, 1411 Linwood, to free the unconscious driver pinned inside the cab."
Date: March 13, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0221]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Soldier Winds Up In Hospital As Car Rams Truck Trailer-- This 1952 model auto looks like it had just tangled with a fright train."
Date: September 17, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0440]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Those guys out there ! Why, they're crazy!" It was the attractive blonde talking, the girl who lives out behind the stage in a trailer at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: September 23, 1952
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0092]

Description: Photograph of a group of people surveying the damage to a small residential home. The roof has mostly caved in and the back wall of the house has collapsed. The windows and door have been destroyed by the fire. Caption: "The greatest tragedy of Oklahoma's violent weather the past two days is symbolized by the small house, above, and the group of Tahlequah people gathered around it."
Date: May 24, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1198.0388]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above, when Sparkman went through the line to get his luncheon, Lee Nix of Durant offered him the full menu but the candidate said: "Thanks, no onions."
Date: September 6, 1952
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0336]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paul Swain as Congressman John Jarman minces across the stage saying, "I may look silly-but the paper's I'll make-flying to Korea with a Christmas Cake."
Date: January 22, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0331]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "That statehouse pest Bob Cunningham (Ed Hunter) takes after Charlie Plummer (Saul Feldman) and Bill Doenges (J. C. Acord)."
Date: January 12, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0335]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Old Maestro, Judge Evert Crismore finally gets to play a solo in the Gridiron. He's provided music for the last 25 years."
Date: January 22, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0338]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stormy weather" is predicted for the next legislative session after legislators feel the sting of Gov. Murray's big veto."
Date: January 22, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0337]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Come on-a-my-home--my husban' don mind" sings Willie (Bill Van Dyke) as she invites all the plain folks to the open house at the mansion and rings up the count on an old streetcar register."
Date: January 22, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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