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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4692]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma motorists are paying the price of interstate highway improvements with an almost tripled accident rate. State Highway Department statistics show that what used to be safer-than-normal stretch of interstate highway north of Purcell has had three times its usual number of accidents since improvements began. Drivers are warned a mile in advance at both end of the highway project but warnings apparently aren't enough… more
Date: March 12, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7720]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "J.D. Garner, head of the Federal Aviation Administration emergency escape research laboratory, stood at an impossible angle to the floor of the airplane. He almost could place his hands on the cabin floor without bending his knees. "This is an extreme position in which an airplane might come down in a crash," he explained. "But it gives you an idea of the problems tou'd encounter in trying to escape." (photo t… more
Date: June 11, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4681]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma motorists are paying the price of interstate highway improvements with an almost tripled accident rate. State Highway Department statistics show that what used to be safer-than-normal stretch of interstate highway north of Purcell has had three times its usual number of accidents since improvements began. Drivers are warned a mile in advance at both end of the highway project but warnings apparently aren't enough… more
Date: March 12, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9517]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The sometimes informal way Oklahoma's highways are built is well illustrated by the extension and improvement of SH 105 in Logan and Lincoln Counties. Basic grading and draining work is under way on the 12.8 mile project with plans calling for the paving contract to be awarded next summer. But the project was well along with local residents having secured much of the right-of-way for the widening of the roadway before the… more
Date: November 8, 1972
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6218]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Residents of Midwest City's Glenwood addition are alarmed and bewildered by inaction on the part of officials to end the danger of low-flying Air Force jets over their homes. Five months ago, a flamed-out F100F fighter obliterated three homes in one block starting at the intersection of Bowmen and Ferguson Drives. It was the second such crash in nine years. In 1961, another F100 Super Sabre destroyed six homes and ki… more
Date: March 2, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7051]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bales away," Loadmaster Dave Milziri intoned into the intercom as the Oklahoma National Guard four-engine transport swept low over 80 head of snow-stranded cattle. The C124 Globemaster was making its second trip of the day to carry hay of cattle starving in the fields in counties hardest hit by Sunday's blizzard...In seven flights Wednesday, Air National Guard cargo planes dropped 2,335 bales of hay near Laverne, the Antel… more
Date: February 24, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3619]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Marine Pvt Randall Herrod confessed he was left speechless by the warm welcome he received Friday from his hometown folks in Calvin. Perched atop a convertible, Herrod was paraded through the streets of the town on his return from Vietnam, where he was acquitted of charges he murdered 16 women and children...After the parade, W. E. "Dod" McIntosh of Tulsa, principal chief of the Creek Nation, made Herrod a member of the tr… more
Date: September 11, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1408]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The coming of cheap river transportation to eastern Oklahoma will not produce an instant boom, experts agree. However, the same experts also agree that in the long run the Arkansas River navigation project, linking Tulsa with the Mississippi River 450 miles away will work basic changes in the state's economy. How extensive the changes will be is anybody's guess. "Some effects already are being felt because the wate… more
Date: January 24, 1971
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6216]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "J.D. Garner, head of the Federal Aviation Administration emergency escape research laboratory, stood at an impossible angle to the floor of the airplane. He almost could place his hands on the cabin floor without bending his knees. "This is an extreme position in which an airplane might come down in a crash," he explained. "But it gives you an idea of the problems you'd encounter in trying to escape." The airplane i… more
Date: June 11, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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