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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0546]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two New York Central freight trains, one reportedly traveling at a mile-a-minute clip, met head on in an upper Manhattan railroad yard Monday and burst into flames."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0536]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "These two pictures show the terrific impact that sliced cars in half as two Long Island trains collided Friday night at Rockville Centre, Long Island, killing 28 and injuring more than 100."
Date: February 18, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0606]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If New Yorkers haven't heard yet about Oklahoma's Semi-Centennial Celebration, it's not from a shortage of publicity stunts. Calling attention to the state's 50th birthday recently were Blue Mail, Kiowa, adn Princess Ah-Nah-Wake of the Cherokees, who sent up a smoke signal announcement aboard the Miss Liberty in New York harbor."
Date: May 7, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0603]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One man's version of the way we'll look 50 years from today.. . Ben Shaw designed this science-fiction costume modeled in New York by Loyce Stinson Hawk, Tulsa, as part of the promotion of Oklahoma's semi-centennial."
Date: June 10, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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