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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1100]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is the rollover from which Don Brown emerged with both jaws broken. He'll drive at Taft stadium again Monday for the first time since the accident."
Date: July 14, 1947
Creator: Cox, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1101]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's Ironhead Tex West, handkerchief serving as a dust mask, veteran Dallas midget driver who was pinned in his car along the west rail at Taft stadium Monday night after a crash that sent him to the hospital and stopped the scheduled 30-lap summer sweepstakes after 18 laps. The fortunate West escaped with a burned arm and a dislocated toe, but welding torches were needed to cut him out of the wreckage of theā€¦ more
Date: July 14, 1947
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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