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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0479]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landslide knocks train off tracks wreckage of a crack north bound Kansas City Southern Passenger Train, which was knocked from the tracks by a landslide and plunged over a 25-foot embankment into a river near Sallisaw, Okla., Jan. 5. Engineer E Benjamin, De Queen, Ark., was killed, and Mrs.Ed Brennan, Kansas City, A passenger slightly injured. Approximately 20 other passengers escaped injury."
Date: January 6, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0617]

Description: Photograph is an aerial view of a water pump truck spraying water on the remains of a store on the main street. Rubble and bricks lay in the street from the burnt building. Smoke is rising from the center of the building. Caption: "Ruins of a fire in Bartlesville on Christmas day which resulted in loss estimated at $250,000, are shown above."
Date: December 27, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0480]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Enclosed pictures show scenes of the Santa Fe train wreck at Clinton, Sunday night. The accident was caused when the chain on a stray cow on the track derailed the locomotive, piling up the locomotive and 9 stock cars. It was a heavily laden special stock train bound for Kansas. The engineer Frank Galletly, was killed and two members of the train crew injured, some 50 head of cattle killed, hundreds escaped."
Date: May 4, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0170]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "confronted with the problem of decorating the city for two political conventions, Chicago has turned to George Washington as the predominating symbol in a decorating scheme designed to please Republicans and Democrats alike. This photo shows a workman holding a large picture of the first president before scores of them were placed on lamp and trolley posts near the Chicago Stadium."
Date: June 3, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0801]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Proposed Bridge Location - State highway officials Wednesday were awaiting a visit from Gibb Gilchrist, Texas highway engineer, for a conference on feasibility of purchasing or paralleling the last Red River toll bridge between Oklahoma and Texas."
Date: 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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