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[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

[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.B0410.0151]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Kris Carroll, a receptionist for the State Fair of Oklahoma, tries out one of the 29 new , colorful futuristic-style telephones just installed for fair-goers."
Date: September 12, 1976
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0879]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at 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. Another occupant of the car, Mrs. Rosanne Conn, and the truck driver, Roger Freeman, escaped serious injury although Freeman was trapped in the overturned cab for more than a hour."
Date: November 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0116]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Irene Woods, Ardmore, left, and Mrs. Helen Redding, Mustang, savor slices of this entry and prepare to render their verdict at the State Fair of Oklahoma pie judging."
Date: September 25, 1973
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0127]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mangled cars of a Rock Island freight train lie in four Mile Creek near downtown El Reno Wednesday after derailing and destroying the railroad bridge as they plunged into the creek."
Date: November 20, 1974
Creator: Giudice, Gary
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0732]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chicken-fried blacktop was served up on I-35 three miles south of Purcell this morning when an asphalt truck collided with this tractor-trailer rig carrying a cargo of frozen fat."
Date: April 27, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0682]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SLICED IN HALF was this car when it collided with another automobile near Pottstown, Pa. Sections of the split car are separated by more then 100 feet on the Philadelphia-Reading highway. One man in the split car was killed and another seriously injured. A man in the second auto also was killed."
Date: August 28, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1075]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "GAPING HOLE two miles east of the Oklahoma-Lincoln County line was created when a cattle truck crushed a rusty culvert under Memorial Road Sunday. The truck, owned by Walter Barnes Trucking Co., was not damaged and cattle in it were later transferred to another vehicle."
Date: February 20, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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