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[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0137]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The dragstrip at the Oklahoma City fairgrounds Monday for the third annual Safety Swing Thing, a safe driving contest for city area high school student."
Date: May 4, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0156]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tank car loaded with petroleum naptha over turned today in a downtown railroad yard, forcing authorities to cordon off the area after leaks developed."
Date: June 6, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0145]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was a pretty fair day for OCUers Frank Petrouskie and Johnathan Manning, who show off their prizes. The biggest was a two-foot dog, whose face is covered by Petrouskie's hand."
Date: September 25, 1975
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1049]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Encouragement Fanny Sue Nelson, 90, a retired chiropractor from Lamar, Mo., gets a hug from fellow bus passenger Christina Hillenbrand, 12, of Evansville, Ind., after the bus accident on the Turner Turnpike. The two did not know each other when they boarded the bus, but got to know each other during the adventure."
Date: December 7, 1978
Creator: Chandler, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Investigators check scene of fatal car-train accident in Ardmore Friday. STATE TRAFFIC TOLL 1971 to date 788, 1970 to date 794. 71 deaths under 21: 236, An Ardmore woman was killed Friday afternoon when her car collided with a Santa Fe Railroad engine in the city limits of Ardmore. Dead is ADALEE EMMA TUCKER, 63, Ardmore. Mrs. Tucker, a waitress at Lake Murray State Lodge, was pronounced dead on arrival at … more
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Pitts, Robbie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0098]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Some of the nine Rock Island freight cars lost their wheels in a mishap Sunday when they overturned as 14 cars of the train derailed east of Hydro Sunday."
Date: July 19, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0117]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Enjoying a Picnic lunch of hotdogs and corn-on-the-cob at the State Fair of Oklahoma are Doug Busk and Robin Rakow."
Date: September 24, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0747]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The driver and a passenger in this cab escaped serious injury when their truck and trailer, carrying 20 tons of hanging beef, overturned about 2 a.m. this morning at the I-35, I-40 interchange."
Date: August 26, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0156]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In the State Fair of Oklahoma's greenery project at the fairgrounds was planted this week in the R. G. Miller Gardens by Robert Pratz, from the Greenbriar Nursery, left, Lonnie Shockley, from the Park Department, and Lem Jones, assistant manager of the State Fair of Oklahoma."
Date: September 19, 1973
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0740]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jackknifed on icy I-40 at Midwest Boulevard, truck clogged traffic and caused a seven-vehicle pileup in which one person was killed."
Date: December 7, 1978
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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