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Firemen sifting through a plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fireman sift through the wreckage of a Kerr-McGee Corp. plane that crashed in Oklahoma City Tuesday."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Officials inspect wreckage of plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Officials inspect forlorn heap of smoking metal that was an executive jet plane."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Officials sifting through plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKAGE SITE. An investigator peers at the remains of a Kerr-McGee Corp. jet which crashed Tuesday in Oklahoma City, killing the pilot and co-pilot, the only two aborad. The dead were Kenneth Blair Hunter, 65, the pilot, and Jack Ernest Garner, 51, both of Oklahoma City."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Staff Photo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Three people looking at the plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kerr McGee."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Caption: "Charred beams and ashes were all that remained today of this apartment unit at Sooner Haven, a low rent housing project located at NE 36 and Prospect, after a fire Wednesday night." Charred remains of window after house fire.
Date: January 15, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Caption: "Fire destroyed this garage adjacent to the Continental Tank Company, 3900 S Portland, today, injuring an employee of the firm" Firemen looking at two old cars destroyed by fire.
Date: January 15, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Charred insides of home.
Date: January 15, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph of buildings engulfed in a fiery blaze. People stand nearby apparently attempting to manage the fire. Caption: "The storage house and elevator equipment was destroyed"
Date: January 15, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph is of a man standing in the middle of a large area that has been reduced to rubble by a fire. He appears to be surveying the damage and remains.. Caption: "Three Oklahoma fires took the lives of two persons Monday, destroyed a hotel and heavily damaged a shopping center. A house fire at Chester, in Major County, fatally burned Jim Smith, 82, and his wife, Anna. 70."
Date: January 15, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage of Scandinavian Airlines jetliner lies in water off the southern California coast."
Date: January 15, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0509]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "SMOKE POURED from a hole in Oklahoma Baptist University's Shawnee Hall, left, after plane piloted by Robert Lawson, Inola, intentionally crashed into the building Tuesday."
Date: January 15, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Injured In Crash-- Ice-slickened N May helped to cause this accident."
Date: January 15, 1973
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1193]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A car carrying seven Western Heights School students Friday afternoon lunch break went out of control and overturned on a gravel road in southwest Oklahoma City, fatally injuring the driver, police said. Steven Glenn Pope, 16, of 6674 NW 10, was dead on arrival at South Community Hospital of multiple injuries."
Date: January 15, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Tangled wreckage of auto is inspected by wrecker operator."
Date: January 15, 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0353]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SEVEN PERSONS-- including four passengers in this 1953 sedan -- were injured late Monday night in a two car collision west of Norman on SH 74. Driver of the car, Rev. Lemuel Summers, suffered minor cuts. Two women, one a passenger in Summers' car, were critically injured."
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Seven Persons-- including four passengers in this 1953 sedan -- were injured lat Monday night in a two car collision west of Norman on SH 74. Driver of the car, Rev. Lemuel Summers, suffered minor cuts. Two women, one a passenger in Summers' car, were critically injured."
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0488]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Four persons were hurt, none seriously, Tuesday night in a freak accident at Reno and Western involving two buses, a pickup truck and two automobiles. Traffic was tied up more than an hour during the 6 PM rush period, while police tried to untangle the sandwiched mass. Vehicles were strung out for a half block at the busy intersection. Three ambulances carried the injured to city hospitals. Carman A. Freeman, 41, of 2333 SW Binkley, driver of a city bus was charged with reckless driving by R.S. Clark and R.D. McGuire, police accident investigator. treated for minor cuts and bruises at Mercy and St. Anthony hospitals were: Carmen Legrand, 32, of 3212 S Olie; Mrs. Oscar Schmidt, 56, of 1004 SW 28; Mrs. Irene Altizer, 25, and her son, Jerry, 6, of 1519 SW 51. All were discharged after receiving emergency treatment. Clark and McGuire said their investigation disclosed a Britton bus, the pickup truck and two sedans were stopped at the traffic light when the city bus driven by Freeman crashed into the rear of the truck driven by Mrs. Legrand. Freeman told the police he had …
Date: January 15, 1952
Creator: Peterson, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0676]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crumpled death car and an overturned motor home are cleared off U. S. 69 by emergency workers."
Date: January 15, 1977
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The car in which Mrs. Martha Rowe, Albuquerque, N.M., was riding when struck from the rear by a tractor-trailer is towed away after the accident."
Date: January 15, 1974
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The crash of this car and the 36-car freight train in the background resulted in the death Wednesday of Harry D. Beeman jr., of Tulsa. The collision at a north Tulsa crossing boosted the year's road toll to 25."
Date: January 15, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Heavy iron steps of a Rock Island engine were smashed flat when a car in which a young boy and girl were riding, plowed into the train at the crossing in the 400 block N MacArthur Monday morning, The impact also knocked the engine's wheels off the track. The 18-year-old boy, celebrating his birthday, was killed in the accident."
Date: January 15, 1968
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wild Boxcar Rams Train at City Station. A wild freight car, mis-switched in the Santa Fe station yard here Saturday morning, plowed into the side of two Pullman cars entering the station on elevated tracks from the south."
Date: January 15, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0849]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two men were killed in this pickup truck Saturday when it crashed into a semi-trailer truck near Orlando, Logan county, on U.S. 77. Killed instantly was Cecil Humphrey, 2020 NE 16 Terrace. Murray J. Thornton, Albuquerque, NM., his passenger, died shortly after the accident in Perry General Hospital."
Date: January 15, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Bessie Leigh Chesnut, Reader and dramatic art Instructor."
Date: January 15, 1934
Creator: Becker
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History