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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0030]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "POLICE BLAMED A BUG Monday for causing $400 damage to a city water department pump station building at W Reno and Grand boulevard. Mrs. Alma L. Looker, 32, of Bethany, told officers she was driving on W Reno when a bug flew into her blouse. She lost control of her automobile and crashed into the concrete block building housing one of the city's water wells. She went to the water department and identified hersel… more
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0028]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Shoes and scattered vegetables mark the death scene of a heroic Oklahoma City maid. Police officer L.A. Gramling is conducting an investigation. An Oklahoma City maid was killed Tuesday afternoon as she pushed a 5-year-old boy from the path of a careening car in the 3200 block N Ross. The woman, Mrs. Veola Christian Brown, 43, of 2417 NE 14, was hit by a car driven by a 16-year-old girl, knocked 81 feet, and di… more
Date: October 17, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
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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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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