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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0141]

Description: Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0675]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Pickup Truck 'Lost,' but Not for Long-Scout car officers who were chasing the pickup truck shown above lost it in traffic at NW 23 and Douglas."
Date: February 20, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0900]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault and his Chinese wife joined approximately 75 members of his famous Flying Tigers organization here early Friday for a flight to Los Angeles, where the group's first reunion is under way. The Chennaults came from Dallas to board a plane from New York which was picking up reunion members along the route of it cross-country flight to the west coast."
Date: June 27, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0233]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car Play Pickaback in Freak City Accident, A freak accident in the 1200 block SW 25 Tuesday night saw the car that was struck, left, parked at the curbing, wind up on top of the car that struck it, right. The driver of the car, Glen Zennett Boggs, 17, Tinker air force base, was booked by police on complaints of reckless driving and having no driver's license. Dona Johnson, 17, of 536 SW 33, a passenger in Boggs' car, … more
Date: January 9, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0252]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Missing Driver Charged After Crash Complaints of reckless driving, destroying city property and leaving the scene of an accident were filed against the driver of this car after he struck the signal light post at Main and Western Thursday morning and then left the scene. John Carroll Marshall, 19, told W. E. Gill, patrolman in the picture, that his car collided with the other car and the driver left the scene while he … more
Date: December 4, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0221]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Soldier Winds Up In Hospital As Car Rams Truck Trailer-- This 1952 model auto looks like it had just tangled with a fright train."
Date: September 17, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0230]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car Crash Blacks Out City Block: A motorist escaped injury Saturday morning when his auto crashed into a telephone pole in the 1700 block SE 29, snapping the pole near the ground. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. officials said the crash damaged a transformer, and most of the residents in that block were without electric power for two hours before repairs could be made. Officer R. L. Tettleton is shown investigating the a… more
Date: August 9, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0389]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Booze Found in Abandoned Crash Car. Scouter officer Jimmy Doyle is shown removing a half-pint of liquor from the glove compartment of an auto abandoned after it crashed early Tuesday into the center section of the underpass at Grand and Santa Fe. Witnesses told officers a man and woman climbed from the auto and left the scene, and officers followed a trail of blood for a block and a half, but were unable to locate them… more
Date: May 20, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0236]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fireman work swiftly to prevent further explosions of gasoline leaking from demolished pumps at Skaggs service station, NE 4 and Walnut. An out of control automobile crashed into three gasoline pumps at a NE 4 and Walnut filling station Tuesday, setting them afire and causing damage estimated at$2,750. Police said the pumps were ignited by three explosions after a car driven by Ulysses Riley, 25, of 1744 E. Park, went… more
Date: August 26, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0678]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bystanders and ambulance drivers Thursday pulled the truck shown above from the door of the King's Package cafe. 1411 Linwood, to free the unconscious driver pinned inside the cab."
Date: March 13, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289.0160]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When little Joe Damato, Indian Second Baseman, socked his third-inning homerun over the left field barrier 355-feet away, the tied the Texas league playoff game between the Indians and Dallas at 3-all."
Date: September 12, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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