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[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0084]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A decelerometer, a device that measures the distance required to stop an automobile at any given speed, has been acquired by the state highway patrol for use during inspections to begin when the safety drive opens Friday."
Date: November 12, 1935
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0085]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Personnel carrier used by the highway patrol to rescue persons stranded by the snow storm in the Enid-Watonga area is displayed by its drivers, Trooper Max Cornwell, left, and Lt. Cecil Austin."
Date: February 24, 1975
Creator: Ehteridge, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0074]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "After almost 20 years of patroling state highways, 21 members of the original 85-man highway patrol school in 1937 are still combating the state's highway death toll."
Date: July 14, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0068]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Weekend volunteers begin plugging saplings into the ground, the first of more than 3,500 trees to be planted at the intersection of I-40 and I-240 between Portland and May."
Date: March 2, 1979
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0071]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A new kind of traffic line is being put down on the Lincoln interchange by Fred L. Smith, supervisor of the work crew."
Date: September 23, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0072]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Testing a new machine which they hope will solve the problem of highway land slides in Oklahoma a crew bores into the side of a hill during tests at Lincoln park."
Date: October 2, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0073]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With the first five of the state highway department's 40 new patrol cars already on hand, the department is making preparations to have the new fleet the most modern one in the country."
Date: May 24, 1937
Creator: Turner, John H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0076]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Highway official Tom Wada opens barrel of paint for detective Robert O. 'Bob' Cunningham, right, who hired chemist H.E. Maxey, center, to make analysis."
Date: April 17, 1974
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0079]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New highway striper machine purchased by Oklahoma County commissioners was first put to use recently on NE 63 near Sooner Road."
Date: May 17, 1973
Creator: Artman, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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