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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0179]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Catapulting 240 feet down a roadside ditch, this old sedan rammed into a bridge abutment near Wheatland early Saturday, resulting in critical injuries to two persons." Two Oklahoma City residents were critically injured, and a highway patrol trooper narrowly escaped death early Saturday in related incidents connected to a one-car crash near Wheatland. Being treated at Mercy hospital are Lee Edmond Moore, 39, of… more
Date: September 27, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0548]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Walkaway Job This car went out of control 120 feet, rolled over twice and landed on its top, but Charles Wilson, 72, Anadarko, the driver, crawled out uninjured a few minutes later after passing motorists opened the door. The accident occurred on SH 41 a half mile west of Wheatland. Trooper W. F. Robinson said Wilson ran off the shoulder on a curve, apparently lost control and skidded sideways before overturnin… more
Date: February 9, 1952
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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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0251.0263]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The table at the Ed Drabek farm near Wheatland groaned as the threshing crew of 14 men chomped their way to the free style eating championship of the southwest over the pride of Douglas county, Kan."
Date: June 23, 1936
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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