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[2012.201.B0317.0366]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a suit and tie, leaned over a table piled with stacks of paper. He is looking down smiling. Caption: "Helping tabulate information on piles of YMCA junior baseball questionnaires"
Date: January 20, 1958
Creator: Gumm, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0147]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman standing in the center of where a building once stood and is now reduced to twisted, smoking metal and brick. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Smoking rubble is all that remains after a $50,000 fire leveled the Randall Sharpe Contracting Co. warehouse, shop and offices 2 1/2 miles north of Britton Tuesday afternoon."
Date: January 7, 1958
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0018]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "PAINFUL PLUNGE from a bridge spanning the Raymond Gary bypass at NE 36 left this crumpled wreckage of a car Friday and sent the driver, Gladys Thompson, 50, to St. Anthony hospital in critical condition. Mrs. Thompson, who lives at 537 NW 41, said the car ran off the bridge and dropped 23 feet to an embankment below after skidding out of control during a rainstorm."
Date: June 21, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0025]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SAVED FROM SERIOUS INJURY by a safety belt, Ralph Michael Simpson, 21, of 4220 S Harvey, crawled from this overturned automobile Monday with minor cuts. Police accident investigators C.D. Posey and J.M. Watson said when they arrived at the scene of a 2-car collision at NW 6 and Dewey they found Simpson dangling, held in his seat by the safety belt. His car was struck broadside by an automobile driven by Frankie… more
Date: September 9, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0300]

Description: Photograph is of a man looking with a flashlight into the interior of a automobile that is charred from a previous fire. Burnt debris and rubble surround the car and the man's feet. Caption: "Ruins of a once sparkling new automobile are probed by E. G. Wintermute, El Reno secretary-treasurer of Samples Buick Co, which was gutted by a $50,000 fire Saturday."
Date: March 24, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0005]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Heavy guard rail speared the above car from front to back, but missed hitting two occupants inside. Jim Wolfkill, shown inside car, gets a close look at the damage. He and another wrecker driver, Sam Farris, top picture, helped free a man trapped in the wreckage."
Date: May 10, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0177]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "FOUR YOUNG WOMEN, one of them an expectant mother , escaped serious injury early Tuesday, when this 1959 Renault flipped over into a ditch near SE 89 and Eastern .The driver , Mrs. Patricia Lorenz, 737 NE 11, said the car tossed after she was forced to hit her brakes as a second car pulled sharply in front of her. The four women were on their way to Norman when the accident occurred."
Date: December 23, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0049]

Description: Photograph is of twisted metal with train cars wrecked, smashed, and still smoking in the background. A small group of people are surveying the damage near the pile of wrecked train cars. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0841]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TRAFFIC WAS HOBBLED several hours as workmen cleared up soybean meal and gravel when two heavily loaded transport trucks collided at the intersection of U.S. 77 and SH 11 near Newkirk. A 17-ton load of rock chat in one truck and the transport loaded with soybean meal both overturned."
Date: February 6, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0335]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Big Babe" loads up with three deputy sheriffs (Boots Capshaw in the rumble seat, Jim Farris and George Long) and girls from the "Fair Follies" for a ride at the state fair's grandstand show."
Date: September 25, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0113.0585]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The quarterback of the team that captured William E. Cook in Mexico was D. A. Bryce, shown here at his map-covered desk, got the job of tracking down Cook because his crime rampage started in this district."
Date: January 20, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0113.0566]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Most folks can't take a shotgun and hit the side of a barn but there's a fellow who just left town whose stock in trade is drawing a pistol and firing it with unerring aim in two-fifths of a second."
Date: February 21, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0113.0570]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "D. A. Bryce, special FBI agent, demonstrates the correct stance for drawing a gun while L. J. Hilbert police chief, and Bill Hamilton, highway patrolman look on."
Date: May 17, 1945
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0113.0583]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Billy Blair, 14-year-old Taft junior high school pupil, had a real G-man show and demonstrated what to do, and what not to do, with a gun while hunting."
Date: February 24, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0113.0590]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "David Duke, Lawton Filter Plant Superintendant; Harris Hancock, Lawton Fire Chief ; D. A. Bryce of Mountain View, Okla. - Supervise pumping operations"
Date: April 16, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0842]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BRUISED AND DAZED, John White, 24, peers from the crushed cab of his truck in Miami where he was trapped for an hour. White said that the lumber shifted forward when his brakes locked."
Date: September 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0179]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Catapulting 240 feet down a roadside ditch, this old sedan rammed into a bridge abutment near Wheatland early Saturday, resulting in critical injuries to two persons." Two Oklahoma City residents were critically injured, and a highway patrol trooper narrowly escaped death early Saturday in related incidents connected to a one-car crash near Wheatland. Being treated at Mercy hospital are Lee Edmond Moore, 39, of… more
Date: September 27, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0013]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THIS SIGN was carried 65 feet across a creek north of Oklahoma City early Friday by a 100-mile-an-hour car that missed the bridge, killing four and critically injuring two."
Date: May 23, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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