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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0240]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Drivers Injured as Cars Crash Two persons were taken to Mercy hospital Friday for injuries suffered in a two-car collision at NW 9 and Shartel. Percy (Bud) Sneed, 32, employe of the Clark Motor Co., driver of the car shown at the left, suffered a possible fractured nose. His car jumped the curb and struck a telephone pole after the impact. Anna L. Lewis, 18, of 4336 NW 15, driver of the car on the right, suffered f… more
Date: December 4, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0295]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Policeman Hurt as Scout Car Hits Safety Island - Officer D.C. Mosshart is shown lying on the pavement next to his wrecked scout car waiting for an ambulance. Mosshart suffered neck injuries, possible broken hand and internal injuries Friday when his scout car crashed into the center island at N. Walker and Couch drive. Officer P.E. Ming, driver of the scout car, escaped injury. The injured officer was taken to Mercy h… more
Date: September 4, 1953
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0413]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Blazing Wreck Pins Driver Until Rescuers Arrive. This 1949 model car, before it was up righted, pinned James Allen Hunt,18, of 1461 Reading drive beneath it and caught fire. It was struck by a hit-and-run driver. Three passing motorists, lifted the car and dragged Hunt to safety."
Date: February 4, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0872]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The battered pickup truck of Harvey William Duke, 33 year old Oklahoma City electrician, is shown after it crashed into the Frisco streamliner shown in the background. The collisions occurred 1 1/2 miles north of NE 23 on Midwest Boulevard. Duke was thrown through the windshield, against the train and killed instantly. He became Oklahoma's 239th traffic fatality for the year."
Date: June 4, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0873]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 33 year old Oklahoma City electrician was killed instantly about 8 AM Friday when his pickup truck skidded 135 feet and then plowed into the baggage car of a Frisco streamliner passenger train 1 1/2 miles north of NE 23 on Midwest Boulevard. Highway patrol troopers said Harvey William Duke, 33, of 131 SW 42, apparently was thrown through the windshield of the truck against the train, which hurled his body 39 feet."
Date: June 4, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0160]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Those gay ballons bobbing around the staid old Hales building at Main and Robinson aren't giddy left-overs from New Year eve. They're eviction notices - for the birds. And building manager Charles H. Clark happily reported Friday the startled starlings are taking the hint in droves. "We had tried everything else, and after the City National Bank did this with pretty good success awhile back, we decided to see how… more
Date: January 4, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0244]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The new 500-bed Veterans hospital at NE 13 and Kelly begins to look like a reality. Delayed by steel shortages several times since construction began two years ago, contractors now expect the building to be finished next July. This is an aerial view looking west of the Oklahoma City medical center as it appear when the veterans administration moves its 220 beds from the barracks type building at Will Rogers field to t… more
Date: October 4, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10069]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This week's religious beauty spot is the Ark in Emanuel synagogue, 900 NW 47, the most sacred spot in the sanctuary. The Ark contains scrolls of the Torah, contained in the books of Moses. The Eternal light over the Ark, never extinguished, is a symbol of the enternal nature of divine teaching. Letters over the Ark can be translated, "Know before Whom Thou Standeth."
Date: February 4, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10625]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Know what that futuristic structure will be? When it's completed it will be a gasoline pump that will be found in super-markets someday."
Date: May 4, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10632]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Up, Up, And Up she goes, already 80 feet in the air and going higher, is the new Arrows to Atoms tower for the Semi-Centennial exposition at the Fairgrounds June 14-17. The tower is a long arrow shooting straight up, in the center of the plaza."
Date: March 4, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1715]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Work has been resumed on the Gold Star Memorial building at Oklahoma City University. Betty Jo Denny, left, 5915 NW 32, and Shirley Holcomb, 1401 NW 25, look over some of the recent construction. A. E. Johnson, general manager of the Lippert Brothers Construction Co., has set Christmas as the deadline for placing the gold star atop the tower. The building will be finished "sometime next year." It will be one of the … more
Date: August 4, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1944]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Moving along is the new Putnam City highschool at NW 50 and Independence. Scheduled for opening next fall, the highschool will ease crowded conditions in the huge NW 39 consolidated school for the west side independent district. Junior high classes will be moved into the old highschool building. The pln is the second to be built away from the central campus in Warr Acres."
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1945]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fire killed two small children Friday morning when it destroyed this frame house at 3508 S Epperly. This picture was taken shortley before the house collapsed after being gutted by flames. Firemen from Del City and Oklahoma City were called to battle the blaze, but were unable to extinguish it. Two other children escaped death by running from the house ahead of the flames. Neighbors gathered in the dusty street … more
Date: December 4, 1959
Creator: McComas, C. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1946]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Del City children were burned to death Friday morning and a brother and sister narrowly escaped as fire destroyed their home at 3508 S Epperly Dr. Dead were Randy Green, 5, and his 3-year-old sidter, Geraldine. Barbara Green and James Green ran from the burning house that claimed their younger brother and sister. The victims were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Loys Green. Mrs. Green, in a state of shock and under … more
Date: December 4, 1959
Creator: Voegle, Glenn
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2076]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Get off the beaten path and tour the North Canadian from west of May eastward through the city, and you'll see some of the worst collections of disease breeders, mosquito harbors and fly incubators that a city this size can produce. The photo above contrasts this river bank dump with the clean cut city skyline. It is located just west of the new eastside viaduct on Byers...The $2,775,000 floodway bonds eliminate this … more
Date: May 4, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2244]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The new Chester A. Arthur school, 5000 S Independence, shows the latest trend in Oklahoma City school building. Designed to save money and yet bring more comfort to the students, it was constructed at a total cost of $124,295.80."
Date: February 4, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2482]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "That pleasant voice at reservations is typified by Donna Mashburn, 2112 Mehl Dr., reservation clerk for Central Airlines at Will Rogers. She is just one small but vital cog in the vast wheel that turns the airlines."
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2483]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fifty-four passengers, 2,000 pounds of cargo, plus fuel," mutters Roy Tilburry, 4522 NW 44, Braniff load agent. "Now where is the center of gravity of that aircraft?"
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2484]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Weather, route information, loading-what have you-are gathered by radio and teletype as the airliners speed toward Will Rogers. Linzy N. Pendergraft, 2608 SW 46 terr., works in the American Airlines radio room."
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2493]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "(missing article - photo of a four-prop airplane being serviced, people around it, control tower in the background, and more.)"
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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