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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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0716]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The driver escaped injury when this heavy truck, loaded with 180 sacks of feed, missed a bridge at the intersection of SE 59 and Eastern late Saturday night."
Date: March 8, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0717]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The driver of this freight truck, M. W. Ellis, came out of the wreck with just a bump on his head and some bruises."
Date: February 23, 1946
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0027]

Description: Photograph shows a man wearing a white hard hat behind a metal table with a pile of objects, such as a hand-gun, on it. The background shows a burned wall with two open windows in the center.
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0007]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "No enlarged photo of love birds, this shows the two Peking ducks owned by Ladonna Schein, congratulating themselves over a blue ribbon at the Yukon Fair."
Date: September 5, 1947
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0422]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRUMPLED under 30 feet of guard rail, this car driven by Keven Bruce Childress, 16, Midwest City, struck the railing three miles east of Choctaw Road on I-40 Sunday morning. Childress, highway patrol investigators said, was in critical condition at St. Anthony Hospital." Story on Page 13."
Date: February 1, 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0423]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SUDDEN STOP came when the driver of this car swerved to miss a cement truck Thursday and slammed into the corner of the C. J. Mutter home at 900 East Drive in Edmond. Police said the driver, Roy Burleson, 17, sustained minor injuries. Damage to the house, which was completed only four months ago, was estimated by the builder at approximately $2,000." (Photo by H. C. Neal) Original dated 09-23-1971, Published o… more
Date: September 23, 1971
Creator: Neal, H. C.
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
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.B0052.0224]

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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0493]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Glasses in a pool of blood were mute testimony to dangerous driving conditions int he Oklahoma City area Monday. These glasses were found in a car involved in the 2-car collision in Midwest City."
Date: February 6, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0640]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OKLAHOMA SAFETY WEEK WAS HARDLY OVER WHEN THIS CAR, DRIVEN BY MOLINDA EDLINE COX, Midwest City, crashed into the Tinker air force base fence on SE 29 and came to rest at the foot of the huge safety sign. She said she didn't see the stop sign. The car skidded 90 feet straight across the intersection. Tinker officials estimated $125 damage to the fence. There was about $200 damage to the car. Trooper Leo White… more
Date: September 7, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0180]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE DEAD, FIVE INJURED was the result of this head-on crash Tuesday on NE 23 and Shady Nook, about eight miles east of the state capitol. An expectant mother, Mrs.Barbara Camp, 20, of Edmond was fatally injured. Her husband, Leon, 24, was hurt as well as a family of four from Venice, Calif. They are Henry Joiner, 41, his wife Emma R., 36, and their two children, Mike, 12, and Mary,16. The Camp car is shown at … more
Date: July 3, 1957
Creator: Dodson, Buddy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0417]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage Litters the roadway Thursday afternoon after a runaway trailer smashed into a car driven by Leona Green Trotter, 60, of Guthrie." Photo By David McDaniel, Original Photo dated 08-27-1981, Published on 08-28-1981"
Date: August 27, 1981
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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