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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0557]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s the Car This old model automobile driven by Kendreth S. Wilson, a suspended driver, hurtled through the front of the Three R Rancho service station and cafe east of Edmond early Sunday. Mrs. Pat Marsh, 3300 S Harvey, and O. D. Collier, 6 NE 3, passengers in the car were critically injured. The store front was demolished."
Date: May 1, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0551]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The car at left was driven by Woody Williamson, 45, of 545 SW 33. All others injured in the crash were released from hospitals after treatment of minor injuries."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1179]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smoke and flames pour from French tanker Betelguese after a series of explosions ripped the vessel apart in Bantry Bay Monday, killing 50."
Date: January 9, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0562]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Twenty-two cars in a Missouri Pacific freight train derailed Tuesday morning in a collision with a gravel truck near Jasper, MO."
Date: November 30, 1965
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0569]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieut. F. A. Mussen, Clinton highway patrolman, above, inspects the ruins of the house trailer after Thursday morning`s highway catastrophe 1 1/2 miles west of Hydro on U. S. 66. Both vehicles were headed east when they collided."
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0535]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CHAIN SMASHUP on the New Jersey turnpike left four persons dead and at least 20 injured Saturday. The fiery collision, on this southern portion of the turnpike near Woolwich Township, N. J., involved 10 cars and six trucks and occurred when one of the vehicles piled into the rear end of another in heavy fog."
Date: November 30, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0553]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Three Escape Death as Auto Hits Tree Three Oklahoma Cityans escaped death near Hartshorne when this car went out of control, skidded 219 feet, overturned and struck a large tree. The tree crashed through the car, shattering the windshield. The car was driven by David C. Hadaway, 48, of 1027 Lackey drive. His wife was taken to a McAlester hospital suffering internal injuries and Hadaway was struck on the shoulde… more
Date: September 5, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0571]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s all that`s left of the house trailer and belongings of the Jean Louis Wilkey family whose automobile collided with the bus. The trailer was torn free of the car by a bridge railing but was demolished when it smashed into the bridge structure. Mrs. Wilkey and her daughter, Jerry Ruth, were killed in the crash, and Wilkey, driver of the car, is in critical condition in Clinton`s Oklahoma General hospital."
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1178]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The French tanker Betelgeuse, which exploded earlier today at the Whiddy Island storage terminal, lies with her broken and flames and smoke still pouring from the central portion at first light."
Date: January 8, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0505]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson strolls through a dust-befogged field near here during his "Dust Bowl" tour this week."
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: Lartz, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0504]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In one of the parched land areas which he is touring on a three-day flying visit to the dust-bowl region, secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson Steps up to quench his thirst at a pump in Wild Horse, Colorado."
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: Lartz, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Elk City Man Injured When Car Plunges Into Creek Marshall Clinton Kelly of Elk City was under treatment Monday for a possible fractured vertebra, but he was thankful to be alive after his car plunged into Sand creek about two miles from Sayre on U.S. 66 late Saturday. Kelly`s car missed a bridge and went out of sight under the water. Kelly escaped through a back door, torn open when the car sideswiped the bridg… more
Date: February 13, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1066]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The front portion of a Continental Trailways bus was little more than skeletal rods and charred rubble after Tuesday night`s bizarre mishap. The bed of the crushed pickup truck protrudes from under the side."
Date: January 30, 1979
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0562]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crash Into Culvert Mangles Car; Two Injured This used to be a car. Now it`s the latest threat to the state`s new traffic record of seven days without a highway fatality. Lloyd Lamb, 27, Mustang, was critically injured in the vehicle when it struck a culvert and "bounced" 55 feet early Thursday near Wheatland, Gerald O. McVay, 22, Moore, a passenger, received a broken leg and head injuries. A car-demolishing acc… more
Date: August 10, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0550]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rescue workers above try to free an injured man (arrow) from the car in which a woman was killed near Edmond. The accident occurred when the car skidded broadside into the sign-covered tree at left. A 58-year-old Arizona woman was killed instantly Saturday when the car in which she was riding skidded broadside into a tree on a curve seven miles east of Edmond on U.S. 66. Three others were critically injured. Mr… more
Date: February 18, 1952
Creator: Mixer, Orren
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0509]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two tractors, right, etch a pattern of protection across a barren Dust Bowl farm near Walsh, Colo., in the nation's arid Southwest."
Date: July 16, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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