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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0201]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "MISGUIDED MISSILE was the hood of this car, which crashed with another at Britton road and May Friday. Driver of this car, Wayne Maxwell Thedford, 32, of 3233 NW 33, suffered an injured mouth in the crash with a car driven by Archie A. Orcutt jr., 17, of 6125 NW 56. Orcutt, who received head lacerations, was making a U-turn out of an ice dock and collided with Thedfors's car. The hood cut the windshield only o… more
Date: July 16, 1955
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0200]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Hugh Mose, 18, Route 3, Choctaw, going N on St. Clair, collided with E.J. Petuch, 2523 NW 18, collision intersection of NW 23 and St. Clair."
Date: June 12, 1955
Creator: Davis, Ernest L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0225]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Doctors' Cars Crash On Overpass; 3 hurt. Two doctors and a nurse were injured seriously Thursday about 10:45 a.m. when the two physicians' autos collided head-on on the S Walker overpass over the North Canadian river. One doctor was thrown from his car by the impact, which demolished the fronts of both cars. The wreckage tied up traffic on the heavily-traveled overpass for 20 minutes before wreckers pulled the … more
Date: September 22, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0221]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car wrapped around tree in crash at NW 23 and Robinson. Police said it was a "miracle" that a 57-year-old Texas woman escaped with her life after her car went out of control for a block on busy N Robinson Saturday morning. The woman, Mrs. Angie Gorin, Austin, Texas, suffered severe facial lacerations and bruises in the crash. She was immediately taken into surgery at Mercy hospital where her condition was descr… more
Date: August 18, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0207]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "AN UNWELCOME GUEST plowed across a yard, through a chain-link fence and smashed into the den of the C.D. Slack home at 4032 NW 23 Saturday afternoon destroying a television set and damaging other household articles. The driver of the car, Mrs. Elizabeth Anna Belt, 65, of 4049 NW 19, told officers she "blacked Out" shortly before the crash. No one was hurt."
Date: May 15, 1955
Creator: Davis, Ernest L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0210]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HIT ON THREE SIDES the car at the right above was heavily damaged Friday in a freak accident at NE 24 and Oklahoma. The driver, Henry Madison Adams, 72, of 510 E Madison, was treated in Mercy hospital for cuts and bruises. Police said the car at left, driven by Elmer Elbert Ramsey, 74, of 201 NW 3, struck Adam's car in the right side, careened off and struck it again in the rear forcing Adams into a tree. Rams… more
Date: January 8, 1955
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0218]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "At Britton Rd, and May avenue 10:10 a.m. north of intersection Wayne Maxwell Thedford, 32, of 3233 NW 33. Archie A. Orcutt jr., 17, of 6125 NW 56. Orcutt been getting ice and pulled across to turn back east hit by Maxwell going north both drives fell out of car both at Mercy for observation Orcutt has head lacerations. Thedford has mouth injury. Bob Lamb was officer."
Date: July 27, 1955
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0205]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BRUISED AND SHAKEN, Hugh Clayton Moore, 18, of Choctaw, is shown in the front seat of a car which he was driving when a collision with an auto driven by Thomas J. Petricek, 57, of 2523 NW 18 occurred Saturday. Moore, a service station employe, was driving a customer's car when the accident happened at NW 22 and St. Clair. He was treated at Mercy hospital for bruises, A charge of driving at excessive speed was f… more
Date: June 12, 1955
Creator: Davis, Ernest L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0474]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Someone remarked, on seeing the Ashtons in action the first time, " the air looks like it is full of flying bodies all the time."
Date: September 16, 1955
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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