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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0371]

Description: A daylight photograph of a grass fire in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, showing the smoke and flames of burning grass and underbrush along the Turner Turnpike near Stroud. Caption: "Grass fire rage along south side of Turner Turnpike, near Stroud, delaying traffic for awhile."
Date: March 28, 1963
Creator: Composing
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0036]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "North Oklahoma City's celebrated Graffiti Bridge is gone, but some Edmond teen-agers apparently decided this recently completed bridge along the Kilpatrick Turnpike over Kelley Avenue would make a fine substitute."
Date: October 7, 1991
Creator: Sisney, Steve
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0343]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paving machine moves slowly down the Will Rogers trunpike southwest of Big Cabin in Craig county, laying down a thick course of asphalt on the outside lane of traffic."
Date: July 31, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0351]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A marvel when it was dreamed up and built, and now an important link in the nation's interstate highway system, the Turner Turnpike turned 35 years old Monday."
Date: May 16, 1988
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0352]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Turner Turnpike is getting rough. As the above picture show, the 6 1/2-year-old toll road is cracked over long stretches, and it has rough patches on some localities."
Date: December 22, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0354]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two bridges to replace the old Newcastle bridge over the South Canadian river on U. S. 62-277 south of Oklahoma city are about 80 percent complete."
Date: June 1, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0357]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These concrete piers and steelwork will support a 2-lane county road overpass about five miles southwest of the northern terminal of the turnpike."
Date: November 6, 1962
Creator: Granger, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0360]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the greatest post-war construction programs is now under way in the Lawton area with projects totaling more than $57 million either started or nearing the starting stage."
Date: July 11, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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