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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0354]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRUSHED TO DEATH by this smashed car Monday was Mrs. Bessie Liola James, 46, Choctaw. The accident occurred east of Oklahoma City when two cars collided and Mrs. James was thrown out of one car and under the other. Police had to dig a hole beside the car to remove the victims body."
Date: June 18, 1957
Creator: Dodson, Buddy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0335]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "NO DRIVE-IN drugstore here, and 35-year-old Kermit Parker, Choctaw, found it out the hard way early Sunday. Highway patrolman Garland Richey and Pat Walsh said Parker lost control of his auto, and it plunged into the Nicoma Park business. Parker suffered multiple head cuts and was taken to Mercy Hospital. Troopers estimated damage to the building from $8,000 to $10,000."
Date: June 3, 1957
Creator: Dodson, Buddy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TELLING ON THE HOME FOLKS - Bob Burns, bock on the Kraft Music Hall program after a coast-to-coast vacation, has made his home folks back in Van Buren, Arkansas, famous between those some coasts. His homely philosophy and his bazooka are heard along with Bing Crosby and guests over the NBC-Red Network Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m., EST.."
Date: June 15, 1938
Creator: NBC News
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0047]

Description: Caption: "CAR DRAGS CITY GIRL 54 FEET IN ACCIDENT ON CROSS-WALK AN 18-YEAR-OLD telephone operator, Ruby Beatrice Pearsh, is unconscious on the pavement (in top picture) after being struck by a car at NW 11 and Dewey Thursday morning. Driver of the car, Mrs. Maxine Farley, 1417 is shown above. A Southwestern Bell Telephone Co, operator was seriously injured Thursday morning when struck by a car as she crossed the street at NW 11 and Dewey. Ruby Beatrice Pearsh, 18, of 215 NW 5, was semi-conscio… more
Date: June 28, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0299]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An 18-year-old trick horseback rider was chosen Miss Oklahoma City Friday night in finals of the 1956 contest at Edgemere amphitheater."
Date: June 21, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0351]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Enid Pair Hurt as Auto Hurtles Over Washout; A Vance airman and his girlfriend had a new brush with death on Tuesday night when their auto sailed across a deep ravine on a washed-out farm-to-market road east of Enid."
Date: June 5, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0054]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A SWITCH TRAIN put the squeeze on this pick-up at NW 4 and Indiana Friday night, but a passing motorist freed two occupants by pulling off the windshield."
Date: June 30, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0055]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BEING "POLITE" to couples parked along a lover's lane nearly put his car in the N Canadian river Tuesday. DON'T BE POLITE to couples "necking" along lover's lanes. An Oklahoma City man was in Mercy hospital Wednesday with a back injury and a late model Cadillac had a damaged front end after one driver was "over-polite." Teddy Joe Bivins, 24 929 NE 8, told police officers C.L. Posey and H.J. Bradshaw he and a co… more
Date: June 26, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0652]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HOME-MADE WINE---70 gallons of it---was added to Sheriff Bob Turner's liquor vault Saturday following a raid on a trailer house near SE 36 and Douglas Blvd."
Date: June 25, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0643]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Whisky raider S. D. Smith searches for a liquor cache and found it when the section of concrete wall behind the shelf swung open to a secret room."
Date: June 18, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1003.0504]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Still holding her chain, Annette peeps through the bars of her permanent home, as Josephine, who acted like a lady, looks on from outside. Deceased 2-2-56"
Date: June 12, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1003.0502]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Trembling from fright, Annette, the chimpanzee, clings to Uncle Leo Blondin, zoo keeper, as he starts to remove her from the hospital barn to permanent quarters. Deceased 2-2-56."
Date: June 12, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1003.0503]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Shortly after she had bitten Uncle Leo on the right hand, Annette begs for a drink from his medicinal alcohol bottle, still refusing to surrender her chain, held in the hand not in sight. Deceased 2-2-56"
Date: June 12, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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