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I-44 Skelly By-Pass, Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, and the City of Tulsa

Description: Photograph of an example of the vast land needed to construct modern highways to serve metropolitan areas like Tulsa. The foreground shows the I-44 Skelly By-Pass and Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, while the city of Tulsa is in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Intersection of I-44 (Skelly By-Pass) and Highway 75 (Okmulgee Bee-Line). Tulsa in background. Shows the vast areas of land needed to construct modern highways to serve large metropolitan areas.”
Date: February 18, 1970
Creator: Thomas, James W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0145]

Description: Seat from plane crash lying in a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Twisted propeller, above, was wrenched from one engine when a seven-passenger Beechcraft crashed just after midnight Wednesday in far north Oklahoma City. Four persons were killed and one critically injured, all linked to Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. Seat, below, was among numerous item strewn along the plane's flaming path in a wheat field."
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0146]

Description: Scorched remains of a plane near a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dark area in center background shows scorching path of plane after it hit wheat field. Two Oklahoma City insurance officials and the wife and daughter of a colleague were killed shortly after midnight Wednesday in the flaming crash of a private plane in far northwest Oklahoma City. The dead: FRANK J. HAVELKA, 49, the pilot. G. JAMES HUSTON JR., 37. MRS. NEIL BRATT.… more
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0298.0089]

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of two women with a lantern. Caption: "Most happy to oblige, and thereby gaining an evening of fun, were guests receiving the invitation headed "Hayden Abney and Cindy Brown want you to come for Hot Dogs in the Hollow."
Date: June 20, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0422.0017]

Description: Photograph is a head shot of a man dressed in a military dress uniform. Caption: "M. Sgt. Donald A. Firkins, now serving with a unit of the Air Force Communications service at Tinker Air force Base, recently was decorated with the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam."
Date: November 5, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0910.0085]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The second annual Model Hobby Fair featuring model trains, boats, planes, cars. rockets, treasure hunting and ham Saturday and Sunday at the radio gear will be next fairgrounds." Image is of a man wearing a dark button down shirt, light colored pants and dark boots crouched down and adjusting wiring connected to a model rocket ship oon its firing dock. There are wires connecting to a plug nect to the rocket. The man and the… more
Date: 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0960B.0183]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Image is shown over the shoulder of a man holding a stick up while a lady holds the leash on a German Sheppard dog. The dog has his head lowered and baring his teeth in an aggressive manner.
Date: November 25, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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