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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0572]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Six persons lost their lives and 35 were injured early Thursday when this Greyhound bus an automobile sideswiped, locked bumpers then plunged 40 feet into the bottom of Deer creek just west of Hydro, Caddo county, on U. S. 66. This was the picture after rescuers cleared the last of victims from the wreckage. A woman and her 3-year-old daughter, riding in the auto, and four bus passengers were killed in this, on… more
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0413.0148]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Boosters made these deadly rattlers smile for the cameras Monday as they visited Oklahoma City to help publicize the upcoming Rattlesnake Roundup."
Date: April 21, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0569]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieut. F. A. Mussen, Clinton highway patrolman, above, inspects the ruins of the house trailer after Thursday morning`s highway catastrophe 1 1/2 miles west of Hydro on U. S. 66. Both vehicles were headed east when they collided."
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0571]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s all that`s left of the house trailer and belongings of the Jean Louis Wilkey family whose automobile collided with the bus. The trailer was torn free of the car by a bridge railing but was demolished when it smashed into the bridge structure. Mrs. Wilkey and her daughter, Jerry Ruth, were killed in the crash, and Wilkey, driver of the car, is in critical condition in Clinton`s Oklahoma General hospital."
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0516]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Quonset type building erected at a cost of 6,600 is the only permanent fair structure owned by the Geary chamber of commerce."
Date: September 3, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0301B.0355]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clemen Humphrey of Watonga has stepped front and center in Oklahoma City stockcar racing in two short weeks at Taft stadium with 52 championship points good for 15th place."
Date: April 8, 1952
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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