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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0592]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nine injured persons, including two critically hurt, were pulled from the wreckage above Sunday southwest of Norman on U. S. 74. The two cars crashed head-on, blocking the road more than 30 minutes at the height of home bound Dallas football traffic. The gravely hurt were Mrs. Paul Hunt, 27, Purcell, and her son, Paul 8, months. Hunt was en route to Norman when his car collided with one driven by J. A. McRee, 3… more
Date: October 11, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0585]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1955 to date, 427; Oct. 17 1954 to date, Oct. 9 Three members of a Texas family were killed and three children critically injured early Thursday when their late-model car sailed 60 feet through the air and crashed into a 15-foot ravine on U.S. 77 4 1/2 miles north of Norman. Dead are: Ira Carl Lampley, 30 Deer Park, Texas. Neva L. Lampley, about 30, his wife. An unidentified woman, about 60… more
Date: October 7, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0577]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This crash on SH 33 within the city limits of Watonga threw Mrs. Artie E. Secrest, Lakewood, Colo., into the windshield and also sent her husband and son, G.F. Secrest, to the hospital about 6 p.m. Wednesday. The Secrest were in the car on the left, which struck the car on the right driven by Joe Christian, 63 Watonga, who is still in the car. He was injured slightly. Mrs. Secrest is in critical condition from … more
Date: April 7, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0591]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Highway patrolman blamed unfamiliarity with the road for the accident that made a ring of this car around a tree along U. S. 270 in Dale, Pottawatomie county. The Texas car crashed into the sturdy tree with such force it bent around the trunk until the front bumper met the back bumper. Three persons were injured one critically most seriously hurt was Jack Nichols, 25, Amarillo, who was to have been married to … more
Date: May 31, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0587]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS. Three members of a Texas family were killed and three children critically injured early Thursday when their late-model cars sailed 60 feet through the air and crashed into a 15-foot ravine on U.S. 77 4 1/2 miles north of Norman. Dead are: Ira Carl Lampley, 30, Deer Park, Texas. Neva L. Lampley, about 30, his wife. An unidentified woman believed to be Mrs. Lampley's mother. Girl Reaches Roa… more
Date: October 8, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0576]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Crumpled Car Was Death Trap for Three. Death car for a Texas couple and a Stillwater woman, this crumpled auto plunged into a ravine on U.S. 77 early Friday, critically injuring three children who also were passengers."
Date: October 7, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0588]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Mother And Child Died in this head-on crash Saturday morning one mile south of Norman on U. S. 77. Dead are Mrs. Loretta Jarvis, 28, and her 6-months-old daughter, Sharon Kay Jarvis. They were passengers in a car driven by the husband and father, Robert M. Jarvis, 31, a Norman construction worker. Jarvis' auto collided head-on with one driven by Margot Anne Moore, 20, Edmond, a student at the University of Ok… more
Date: March 13, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0590]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's what a bridge abutment did when this car crashed into it Sunday at what the highway patrol said was high speed. The crash 7 miles southeast of Blackwell sent the driver, Pvt. Ronald E. McConnell, 20, of Blackwell, to Vance air force base hospital with critical injuries. Two other young airmen riding with him also are hospitalized. A third escaped injury."
Date: November 8, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0593]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nine injured persons, including two critically hurt, were pulled from the wreckage above Sunday southwest of Norman on U. S. 74. The two cars crashed head-on, blocking the road more than 30 minutes at the height of home bound Dallas football traffic. The gravely hurt were Mrs. Paul Hunt, 27, Purcell, and her son, Paul 8, months. Hunt was en route to Norman when his car collided with one driven by J. A. McRee, … more
Date: October 11, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0574]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "2 Fatalities occurred 6 north and 4 west Duncan on SH 7 at west end of little beaver creek bridge. Vehicle number 1 is a 53 Chev driven by Harold Wayne Beavers Pine St. of Duncan aged 22 DOA. Vehicle number 1 had 2 passengers. Passenger number 1 was JT Hare 1009 S8th Duncan DOA. Head nearly cut off Passenger number 2 was Ernest Gale Mclain of Duncan age 20. Right hand battered and cut taken 97 stitches sewed 2 … more
Date: February 4, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0580]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Sam Privitt, Longview Texas, is comforted by RaymondTunnard, Primrose Ambulance Driver, after she was injured seriously in a two-car collision five miles east of Norman on SH 9 Tuesday. Two other persons were injured seriously in the accident."
Date: August 2, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0579]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NORMAN, April 21- Three University of Oklahoma students, two of whom were injured, narrowly escaped death early Thursday morning when their car jumped a curb on Norman's Main street at a high rate of speed, skinned by a tree and slammed into a house.Charles R. Gwin, 21, Ada, was traveling east on Main street, near the business section, and failed to negotiate a curve, police Capt. Ernest Bailey said. Capt. Bail… more
Date: April 21, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0637]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Signs guiding motorists to a Canadian county d r i v e - i n Whisky establishment were posted along a four-mile strip of SH 41 near Wheatland Friday."
Date: November 13, 1953
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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