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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0620]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE MAN DIED Friday when this auto was involved in a collision with a freight train at the SW 19 and Agnew crossing. He was Edward A. Edwards, 48, 1009 SW 27. His death will not be added to the city traffic toll, since the accident scene is in one of the "islands" of Oklahoma county surrounded by the city but not inside the city limits."
Date: August 7, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0599]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One Man Died in this car at memorial Park road and McArthur Boulevard Thursday afternoon. He was Oliver Shinn Alloway, 80, Tulsa."
Date: unknown
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0600]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BUMPED OFF THE ROAD when hit from behind on Northwest Highway eight miles west of May Avenue Friday, two Oklahoma City women were injured when their car, above, overturned."
Date: 1953-11-28?
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0632]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rock Island track intersection West avenue west of Oklahoma City - Donald Joseph Pope of Ponca City killed."
Date: October 30, 1954
Creator: Swatek, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0610]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SERIOUSLY INJURED in a three-car accident at N Eastern and the NE bypass Thursday, Pvt. Robert William Hiller, 23, Chicago (above) was rushed to Tinker Field hospital suffering internal injuries. Patrol Trooper Johnny Edwards said Hiller, being transferred from Fort Bliss to Fort Dix, missed a traffic sign and was struck broadside by another automobile which in turn struck a third vehicle. Billy F. Wynns, 18, o… more
Date: September 5, 1957
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0625]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A CAR AND FAMILY were shattered when this sedan and a Rock Island freight collided southeast of Nicoma Park Wednesday. Montana Bracher, 36, Choctaw, and two small daughters are in Mercy hospital with critical injuries resulting from the crash, which killed Brachier's three sons, Daral, 11, Garry, 9, and Ronald, 5."
Date: June 25, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0606]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Man Thrown, Killed As Auto Flips Over. Robert Donald Goodon, 23, who returned to his Newkirk home four days ago from service in the army, was killed instantly Wednesday when his car left the road and overturned a quarter mile north of Northwest highway on McArthur Boulevard."
Date: February 3, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0604]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car's Victim Checks House Damage. Mrs. B.O. Sheridan, above, who narrowly missed serious injury when a car hurtled into her bedroom early Wednesday, is shown through a torn out wall, examining broken furniture. A canvass partially covers the hole in the wall."
Date: July 1, 1953
Creator: Green, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0623]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A GRINDING TRAIN-CAR crash south of NE 23 on Post road Monday night left this debris and cost the life of a 19-year-old city man, Charlie Long. Long's car crashed into an eastbound Rock Island passenger train and the debris was spread a half-mile down the track. Two children , Allen Wayne Evans, 11, and his sister, Linda Kay Evans, 10 , were injured."
Date: September 8, 1959
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0616]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rescue workers pulled 6-year-old William Nabors, Del City from his father's car after working almost two hours to free him from the wreckage. The car driven by James E. Nabors, 4528 SE 23, crashed into a power line pole 6-1/2 miles south of Del City on Sunny Lane road Christmas eve. Workers had to use cutting torches to free the boy, 8, William's older brother, was uninjured."
Date: December 26, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0617]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WORST BATTERED AUTOMOBILE is the description state troopers gave to this automobile belonging to Billy Llyod Kutej, 17, of route 11, after the youth drove through a guard rail on E Reno near Sunny Lane road early Wednesday. Kutej is in Mercy hospital with several fractured ribs, back and internal injuries. Trooper Arch Hamilton said that Kutej was traveling east on Reno. His automobile struck a concrete guard … more
Date: June 10, 1953
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0618]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Money Shower All Over The Place in Crash. Four persons were injured and this street was showered with $84 in coins Friday morning when a car went out of control on SE 29, careened across the center line of the street, and was rammed broadside by another car. Injured included the driver James Stamates, 1716 NW 7, who was thrown 47 feet. Midwest City policeman retrieved the spraying coins, scattered from rolls ca… more
Date: February 19, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0621]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO DIED IN THIS CAR -TRAIN collision at the Rock Island crossing at Spencer road. A bystander looks over the wreckage of the car driven by Ted V. Lilly, 24, 1121 Holly lane, Midwest City. Lilly and his three-year-old daughter, Melia Ann, were killed Monday. It took workers nearly two hours to disentangle the wreckage of the car from the train which dragged the car about a half-mile. Both Lilly and his daughter… more
Date: February 2, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0596]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Death Crash Slams Car's Motor Into Seat. The car in which an Oklahoma City mother and her son were killed early Monday is shown above, its motor pushed into the passenger section of the vehicle. A 3-year-old girl was the only survivor of the accident at North Canadian river bridge on NE 23."
Date: unknown
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0602]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An Oklahoma county man, George Emmit Endsley, 48, Nicoma Park, was killed early Saturday morning when his small station wagon, shown in this clump of trees, collided with a car near Harrah. Three other men were critically injured in the crash. Two of the injured men are shown on the ground."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0601]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Head-On Crash lands Five in City Hospital. Five persons were hospitalized about 3 a.m. Saturday when these cars crashed head-on, four-miles east of N Eastern on NE 23. Troopers are still investigating cause of the crash."
Date: April 26, 1952
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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