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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0208]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Driver Disappears After Car Plows Into City House Police Friday were looking for the driver of this car after it crashed into the home of Miss Josephine Jackson, 70, of 1011 N Phillips, late Thursday night. Chargers of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident were filed against the license tag number of the auto. Damage to the house included boards and window screen broken, part of foundation and w… more
Date: January 7, 1955
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0018]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Winners of prizes in the first week of the $5,000 free statewide fishing derby of the Oklahoman and Times will be getting their awards in a day or two. Petit Charlene Cheatham helped get them on the way Thursday morning. Winners of prize for the second week will get theirs in a few days as soon as officials can check the results."
Date: July 6, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0887]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A TWISTED AND CHARRED MASS of metal remained after this 1955 model auto crashed into the fourth unit of a four-unit diesel engine of the Dallas section of the Santa Fe's Texas Chief Friday at the Memorial road crossing. The driver, A. Poyntz Haskins, Dallas, Texas, insurance man, was thrown out of the car and his body was charred by the blazing auto." STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1956 to date, 360; July, 60 1955 to da… more
Date: January 27, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0313]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman on top of the open ladder off the fire pump truck spraying an open hose onto the roof of a burning brick building. Smoke is billowing out of the roof of the building. Two other firemen are holding hoses that are spraying into the broken windows into the multiple story structure from the ground.
Date: April 16, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0831]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "When Franklin Harris, 1724 SE 29, Oklahoma City, tried to drive his double tank trailer truck under an overpass on the Frisco valley railway near Cache, Comanche county, late Tuesday he messed things up right."
Date: February 23, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0215]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Was a Cadillac Before It Hit a 'Safety Island,' Killing Its Driver. This is what was left of a 1951 Cadillac after it hit a "safety" island early Monday at SE 29 and Eastern. The driver, Urban C. Hawkins, 42, chief petty officer at the Norman navy base, was thrown out of the car and killed to become Oklahoma City's first traffic fatality in 99 days."
Date: February 14, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0224]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO BOYS ON A TOY WAGON were injured critically Wednesday, when hit by a car in the 2500 block NW 33. They were identified in Mercy hospital as Donald Bowman, 9, son of Mrs. Mittie Jo Bowman, 2537 NW 33, and Stephen Riddles, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Riddles, 2036 NW 22. The car was driven by Joanne Sue Holmes, 16, of 2736 NW 21. She said she was blinded by the sun."
Date: September 22, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0219]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BEN BENHAM HAD THE ONLY DRIVE-IN shoe shop in the Oklahoma City Monday after a motorist bashed in the front of his store at 1726 NE 23. He had to brave sub-freezing temperature to wait on El Wanda Clary, 3939 NW 27, Emil Jerome Cejda, 21, of 917 NW 23, was booked at city jail on charges of drunkenness and driving under the influence after his car rammed another and plunged into the store front."
Date: November 28, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0209]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO DOCTORS AND A NURSE WERE HURT Thursday in a wreck on the S Walker viaduct. Dr. Clarence Oscar Epley, 73, of 3124 N Youngs, suffered a broken leg, wrist and cheek bone when his car, above, was struck head-on by a car which, police said, veered across the center line. The other driver, Dr. Presse M. Paul jr., 29, of 830 NW 24, and passenger , Miss Pearline Carroll, 29, of 101 NE 3, were injured. Miss. Carroll… more
Date: September 23, 1955
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0672]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A SLIGHT SCRATCH ON HIS FOREHEAD was all Leroy H. Cowden, 33. of 2433 NW 3, received when his 11/2 ton truck skidded off the pavement and rolled down a 25-foot dirt embankment at the south end of a river bridge on S. Eastern Tuesday."
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0885]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CAR SPLATTERED IN FATAL CRASH WITH TRAIN HERE, A broadside collision with a Diesel freight engine Friday midnight left this twisted remnant of a 1953 sedan at the Rock Island tracks on Portland. The driver, Don Arlo Lauderdale, 25, of 4241 NW 13, was thrown 51 feet and killed. Impact gutted the car's mechanism, tossing the motor 66 feet away."
Date: January 8, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0676]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Truck driver Lewis Hawkins, 106 NE 38, knew he had lost something Wednesday when he turned into an alley in the unit block NW 4."
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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