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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0195]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Death stalked the highways near Oklahoma City early Friday when a car, driven by Elmer G. Daglish, 48, Stigler roofer, missed a curve five miles east of Jones. At left the Daglish car after it left the road and crashed into a ditch. Trooper Sid Berry said Daglish died instantly apparently from internal injuries and crushed chest. It was believed the driver had been to Oklahoma City on Business and was returning… more
Date: November 24, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
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.B0052.0037]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "EN ROUTE TO HOSPITAL to visit her husband, Mrs. Irene Krogstad, being loaded in ambulance, above, became a patient there herself Thursday afternoon with injuries from a two car collisions at NW 3 and Broadway. Both she and Roy Krogstad, 1200 NW 41, are in Wesley hospital, she for x-ray examination of chest injuries."
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0036]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CHECKING THE DAMAGED FRONT END of one of two autos involved in a collision Tuesday at NW 23 and Meridian is accident investigator John Magill. Jode Frank Short, 20, of 200 N Beavers, Bethany, driver of the car shown in the foreground, was thrown from his car and suffered a leg injury when the auto collided with a station wagon driven by Howard Lowell Coleman, 32, of 1414 NE 48. Officer Magill said a tree may h… more
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0032]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A BROKEN NECK killed Edgar Ward, 38, of 304 SE 55, Wednesday night when this car he was driving at a high rate of speed turned over after a tire blew out near SE 61 and Shields. Witnesses said his car was traveling nearly 75 miles an hour. He was approaching the city from the south."
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0175]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a small home. The interior is reduced to a few identifiable burnt objects. Only two of the outer walls remain standing of the home. Caption: "Ronald S. Johnston - OU Student fire death 10 miles East of Norman"
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0044]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO PERSONS WERE HURT in this overturned car at NW 24 and Shartel Friday. Police said another car ran a stop sign, struck the car above, and then left the scene. The hit-and-run driver is sought by police. Hurt in the car above were Laurel Ann Eldridge, 3, daughter of Mrs. Beatrice Eldridge, 38, 1104 NE 63, and Mrs. Ruby Spivey Wilson, 43, Memphis. They were given first aid in Mercy hospital. The car was driven… more
Date: July 28, 1956
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0033]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NEW SPORTS CAR owned by a Duncan man is a crumpled wreck after a city girl lost control of it early Friday. The crash ended a round of nightclubbing by the pair. Below is the call girl, Teri Dee Ryan, 25, as she looked when booked by police."
Date: August 3, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0196]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH CLAIMED another highway victim five miles east of Jones early Friday morning when this automobile failed to make a curve and plunged into a field. Killed was Elmer G. Daglish, 48, Stigler. He was fatality No. 602 for the year."
Date: November 23, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0041]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A TWO-CAR CRASH at Reno and Western Monday night sent Emmett Tullis, 34, of 2644 W Main, shown on pavement, to Mercy hospital suffering from broken pelvis and ribs. Ruth Miller, 50 on ground, was not seriously injured. Unidentified woman on right attempted to help while the victims waited for ambulance. Tullis' car collided with one driven by Louis Frank Wright, 57, of 1412 SW 12."
Date: November 6, 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.B0052.0040]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A TWO-CAR CRASH at Reno and Western Monday night sent Emmet Tullis, 34, of 2644 W Main, shown on pavement, to Mercy hospital suffering a broken pelvis and ribs. Ruth Miller, 50, on ground, was not seriously injured. Unidentified woman on right attempted to help while victims waited for ambulance. Tullis' car collided with one driven by Louis Frank Wright, 57, of 1412 SW 23."
Date: November 5, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0039]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A CITY FIREMAN helps the injured driver of this auto after it collided with another car, went out of control for 85 feet and crashed into the side of a brick home at 1116 N McKinley. Fireman Eldon Tinsley and Roy Johnson are shown at the right looking through the gaping hole at Frances Jacobs, 1116 N McKinley, after wreckers removed the car. Only person injured was the driver of the car, Mrs. J. Floyd Moorman, … more
Date: December 28, 1956
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0190]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lucky Driver Cheats Death. Thurman Isaac Jefferson, 21, of 501 E Harmon, Midwest City, hit a bridge with his car Saturday in the 4800 block E Reno, flipped over into a creek and walked away with minor injuries. Trooper Garland Richey declared it was a "miracle" he was not killed. Then he gave Jefferson a ticket for reckless driving. Richey said Jefferson was going east and started to pass another car. He ran o… more
Date: August 27, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0050]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nathaniel White, 1506 NE 10, surveys what happened when an auto came to call his living room. An Oklahoma City woman was injured Friday morning when the accelerator pedal stuck on her 1956 model auto and it rammed into the front of a duplex at 1506 NE 10. Mrs. Dorothy Monroe, who lives in the east side of the duplex at 1508 NE 10, suffered chest injuries and was taken to St. Anthony hospital. House Damage $2,50… more
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0053]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TEMPORARILY GROUNDED here Thursday were these four youngsters after a car in which they were passengers was involved in accident at SE 32 and Oklahoma. Nobody was hurt but one car, in background, flipped over on its side. Driver of the overturned car was Ronald Bruce Myers, 18, of 9 SW 41. The youngsters above, Glenda Herring, 13, left, Mrs. Myrtle Herring, both of Chandler, Treva Curry, 3, foreground, and Lynn… more
Date: August 31, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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