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[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0077]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There will be freaks at the Oklahoma State Fair, September 25 to October 3, of course - but this isn't one of them."
Date: September 10, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0855]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at the scene of fatal wreck east of Edmond Friday afternoon. Mrs. Judith Ann Powell, an occupant of a compact car which collided with the big trailer-truck, was killed."
Date: November 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0089]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A New High Act from Europe, the Alcidos, are here with the "Fair Follies of '56" as a replacement for Franz W. Stasch, who was killed Labor Day before a Minnesota State fair crowd."
Date: September 24, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0840]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Oscar Cherry, 21 year old Bethany truck driver, died Thursday when his loaded gasoline truck went out of control and overturned near Okemah. The accident happened about 8:30 AM on U.S. 62. Cherry was employed by the Gilmore & Kirk Oil Co."
Date: July 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An estimated 25,000 state Catholics converged on the state fairgrounds here Sunday afternoon for elaborate ceremonies celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the church's Oklahoma diocese."
Date: October 9, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Purcell firemen and railroad workers spray down an errant switch engine after it was purposely derailed following a 35-mile unmanned run from Oklahoma City."
Date: November 27, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0671]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SMASHED EDMOND POLICE CAR is towed away after the driver, Sgt. Gary Cooper, swerved to avoid a stopped school bus at U.S. 66 and Air Depot Road Monday and ran off the road. The police unit, which was pursuing armed and robbery suspects, flipped over and came to rest partially submerged in a farm pond. Cooper and another Edmond officer in the car, George M. Meador, suffered minor injuries."
Date: March 14, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0844]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Auto Wreckage Meant Sudden Death To Shawnee Woman. A Shawnee woman, Mrs. Elmer Dethrow, 50, died in this auto collision Sunday six miles south of Tecumseh."
Date: August 23, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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