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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0216]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "These auto skid marks, in the center median strip in the 1100 block NE 13, show the path of death for a 33-year-old motorist who was electrocuted early Thursday after his car knocked down the electric light pole shown in the foreground. Here police traffic officials were still investigating the death of Robert Peyton McCarter, 33, of 219-1/2 Harrison, electrocuted after his car crashed into a power pole in the … more
Date: February 17, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0301]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cargo sprawls on the ground after this Rock Island freight car's sides were ripped open in the crash at Kingfisher."
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0307]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two views of the Kingfisher train wreck revels how cars were battered. In top photo, 11 tank cars are stacked like stove wood."
Date: September 17, 1955
Creator: Brownlee, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0833]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "J. G. Marcum, 25, of Barber, managed to swim to safety from his truck cab, which was under six feet of water when the truck ran off bridge over flooded Red Rock creek north of Garber early Thursday."
Date: June 17, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0072.0212]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Count Basie and his orchestra, op-ranking rhythm group , will be featured at a Thanksgiving eve dance and show in the Municipal Auditorium Wednesday night."
Date: November 17, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0096.0269]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HOWIE BOLES, his wife and little boy relax on the lawn of the Bentley hotel in Alexandria, La., during the Oklahoma City Indians' spring training stay."
Date: March 17, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0116.0050]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A television audience will join this family in taking the famous Seashore musical talent tests to be given by Dean Clarence Burg of the Oklahoma City University music school on the OCU Musicians' Workshop program over WKY-TV Saturday at 1:30 p.m."
Date: March 17, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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