[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0084]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Flames shoot skyward from this mass of tangled steel after a southbound Frisco freight train derailed, exploded and burned between Oklahoma City and Municipal airport Friday night."
Date: December 31, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0350.0206]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 31, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1116.0147]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Film actress Jane russee autographs the cast of PFC Roy Scott, 24, , of Bend ore, at the Travis airfoce base hospital near san Franscisco."
Date: December 31, 1950
Creator: World Wlde
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1271.0163]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) is pictured in Washington before leaving for Colubmbus, Ohio, October 24, where he announced his candidacy for the Republican Presidental Nomination."
Date: December 31, 1950
Creator: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0078]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The boxcar tilted crazily at the left above followed two tankers in a game of jump-the-fence when a Frisco freight derailed southwest of Oklahoma City Friday night."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0079]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The four railroad cars shown above in a seething bed of burning oil and gasoline were part of a fast Frisco freight that derailed southwest of Oklahoma City Friday night."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0080]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A southbound Frisco freight train derailed, exploded and burned between Oklahoma City and Municipal airport Friday night."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0083]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two of the trains tank cars and a box car hurdled a 10-foot steel fence enclosing Continental Tank Co. and lay criss-crossed in a mass of flame."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0278.0251]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Victor Hanson, Pond Creek, who has bachelor and master degree from Oklahoma a & M college, took the assistant psychological examiner test."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0965.0138]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This Way In Teachers, this is the entrance to your new Oklahoma Education association building at 323 E Madison, two blocks from the state capital."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0362]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paul Young, Muskogee HS football coach"
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0363]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0364]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paul Young Muskogee HS football coach"
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1424.0366]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paul Young. . . . one of the stat's most successful high-school coaches."
Date: December 30, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0292]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's something to remember next time you press down on the accelerator. the pictures where taken shortly after midnight in the 1800 block NE 23, following a head-on collision.Extreme right, the other driver, in whose car the Del City woman was a passenger, is shown crumpled behind the wheel. He was found with legs bent under the front seat. He's in fair condition at Mercy hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg, fractured jaw, fractured left hip, and laceration of the knees and arms."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0373]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's the wreckage of two autos that collided head-on early Friday in the 1800 block NE 23. Two persons suffered critical injuries. Both drivers early Friday morning were critically injured when their cars collided head-on in the 1800 bock NE 23. Taken the Mercy hospital were LeRoy Olsen, 24 - year - old University of Oklahoma English student from Moscow, Idaho, and Clarence Sewell Hutchison, 43, of 1115 NE park. The accident occurred just as the scout car officers set out after one of the drivers. They didn't catch him in time."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0409]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Officers Start Following One Vehicle, But Arrive Seconds Late.Both drivers early Friday morning were critically injured when their cars collided head-on in the 1800 block NE 23. Taken to Mercy hospital were LeRoy Olsen, 24-year-old University of Oklahoma English student from Moscow, Idaho, and Calrence Sewell Hutchison, 43, of 1115 NE Park. The accident occurred just as two scout car officers set out after one of the drivers. They didn't catch him in time."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0415]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's something to remember next time you press-down on the accelerator. The pictures were taken shortly after midnight in the 1800 block NE 23, following a head-on collision, Oneta Miner, 32, of Del City, is shown being taken to an ambulance. She was fortunate in suffering only multiple lacerations of the face and legs."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0641]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DO YOU REMEMBER THESE NAMES? THEY WERE THE VICTIMS OF 1950 CITY CRASHES, The names scattered across this picture are the 1950 traffic victims in Oklahoma City. There are 26 of them, 20 individuals who died this year on city streets from injuries received in car crashes or from being struck by a car. Last year, 15 persons died on city streets and safety experts are predicting that between 35 and 40 will be killed here in 1951. At the end of next year there will be another list of names. Police and safety council officials want your help to keep it as short as possible."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0461]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "H. C. Jones - Retiring Collector of Internal Revenue for Oklahoma."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0386.0570]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is an Oscar for Gale McArthur, Oklahoma Aggie basketball player."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0525]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1093.0338]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1184.0265]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harrison Smith, a golfer of note, fondles his golf clubs and gazes out his hotel window at the steady downpour."
Date: December 29, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History