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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Elk City Man Injured When Car Plunges Into Creek Marshall Clinton Kelly of Elk City was under treatment Monday for a possible fractured vertebra, but he was thankful to be alive after his car plunged into Sand creek about two miles from Sayre on U.S. 66 late Saturday. Kelly`s car missed a bridge and went out of sight under the water. Kelly escaped through a back door, torn open when the car sideswiped the bridg… more
Date: February 13, 1950
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0420.0331]

Description: Caption: "The county assessor and assistants were really busy in Elk City this week so busy that Lola Butler McClellan, the assessor was playing tic - tac- toe with Jean Neal and another aid Clella Walker, was reading the paper."
Date: February 11, 1953
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0084]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mysterious rock outcropping in what once was a creek bed near Elk City has baffled scientists so far, but the best "educated guess" at the moment is that gas pockets formed on the site of what was part of a highly productive gas field and then exploded, causing the rocks to thrust upward."
Date: February 27, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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