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[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0038]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Death Trap' in Union City Bridge There was a "death trap" hole, 4-1/2 feet wide and 7 feet long in the S. Canadian river bridge near Union City Thursday."
Date: April 8, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0440]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This 2,912-foot-long span, the Johnston Murray bridge at Camargo, will be dedicated Wednesday at one of western Oklahoma's most significant ceremonies."
Date: December 9, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5263]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ten persons escaped serious injury Friday night when a 150-foot span of the Canadian river bridge southwest of Norman snapped under the weight of a hugh truck loaded with glass windows. The truck and semi-trailer and five passenger cars were dropped 14 feet to the river bed in the bridge's second cave-in this year. The only injury reported by highway patrol and Norman city police was to a Norman housewife, passenger in her… more
Date: October 2, 1953
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5255]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a scene that was repeated many times Monday for Pottawatomie county's "wayward bridge." Jack McKenzie, Shawnee lineman for the REA, is shown silhouetted against the sky on a pole as he cleared the wires so the bridge could move along the road."
Date: March 6, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5262]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 150-foot span of bridge collapsed into the Canadian river near Norman Monday, carrying three men and two vehicles with it into the river bed. The accident injured a former state supreme court justice, smashed a late model sedan, jammed a 16-tom Diesel earth mover along the twisted girders, shorted long distance telephone lines serving Blanchard and left that area of SH 74 and 9 blockes for the next 30 days. The span wen… more
Date: May 4, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5254]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pottawatomie county's "cross-country" bridge was lowered into place across the North Canadian river Monday - but not without some extra trouble. Workmen found that the pillings were about 12 inches too short. But that didn't stop them long. They just hooked up a winch on each pilling in turn and yanked them up until the bridge would fit its new home. Here is the bridge in place and ready for business. The 26-year-old s… more
Date: March 13, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5273]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The ancient span over the South Canadian river near Norman has had more than its share of ups and downs and this was the most recent. A 60,000-pound truck and a trailer attempted to cross the rickety bridge but got only part way before the entire structure crumpled to the sandy river bed, closing the highway once again."
Date: October 2, 1953
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5270]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Progress is showing up on this new bridge across the North Canadian River at Lake Overholser. The huge four-lane concrete and steel structure will replace the old steel span in the background. The bridge will carry traffic on the wide extension of the west by-pass. The bridge is a part of the project which will carry motorist on smooth four-laning across the north side of Oklahoma City. It will connect with the prop… more
Date: November 14, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5264]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Should motorists using the new South Canadian bridge near Norman in the future find themselves bouncing onto the big span, it will be understandable - they'll be on a rubber road. When the project is completed, Oklahomans not only will have a fine four-lane, concrete crossing over the treacherous stream, but they'll have two-mile approaches of the first rubberized road laid west of the Mississippi River. Piers for the… more
Date: May 13, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5274]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a very long bridge from the left high to the right high across a river, a "Viking" delivery truck on the right near, some logs in the water at bottom near, and more. Backside handwriting: "South Canadian River Norman")"
Date: May 3, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5258]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A new $3 millions bridge will be opened across the South Canadian river here Tuesday afternoon. It is the newest and the most expensive bridge ever constructed in Oklahoma. Gov. Gary will deliever the dedicatory address at ceremonies scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. Gary and Sen. Virgil Young, Cleveland County, will cut the ribbons at both entrances to the structure."
Date: April 18, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5261]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's what happens when a 16-ton load rolls onto a structure capable of handling only five tons. Wrecked is a 150-foot span of the bridge over the South Canadian river near Norman. It collapsed when an earth-moving truck, right photo, weighing 16 tons, crossed it. The driver, Monroe Barwick, 19, Kingston, was not hurt, although he was badly shaken. A car, left photo, which was following about 50 feet behind the tru… more
Date: May 4, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5256]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the bridge that Pottawatomie county is moving. The 108-foot steel pan on wheels is shown above as it turned off U.S. 270, seven miles east of Shawnee to move north to the Canadian river and its new home."
Date: March 6, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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