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Photograph is of a man in a US Navy uniform pointing to a diving helmet while a woman on the other side of the helmet looks on. Caption: "Even the Navy is represented in the Capitol Hill Home show. The new $1 million dollar field house is filled with furniture and home appliances of every description ."
Date: April 5, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0442

Photograph taken during daylight of men extinguishing fire amid the wreckage of a burned building.
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0443

Daytime scene of bystanders at end of a fire, across from Conoco building. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0444

Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd of people viewing the destruction of a burned building.
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0445

Daytime aftermath of fire as fire fighters and a group of bystanders view the rubble and burned out automobile. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0446

Three men with fire hose standing on burned out car, putting out hot spots, daytime. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Smoldering wreckage was all that remained of the Dale Wilson Chevrolet agency in Marshall which was destroyed by flames Sunday in which loss was estimated at $50,000."
Date: April 16, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Carey Elementary School, Oklahoma City

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The 42 pupils in this fourth-grade class at Carey School are in a pleasant room in the new part of the brick building, but their desks are shoved close together to make room for all."
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kiwanis Junior Police

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Children may cross streets in safety at 106 Oklahoma City elementary schools, thanks to work of Kiwanis Junior Police forces such as this one at Britton school."
Date: April 3, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lowell Lawrence Males

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Photo of Lowell Lawrence Males (L.L. Males). Noted Oklahoma conservationist involved in the Sandstone Creek Project.
Date: April 22, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0032]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A BROKEN NECK killed Edgar Ward, 38, of 304 SE 55, Wednesday night when this car he was driving at a high rate of speed turned over after a tire blew out near SE 61 and Shields. Witnesses said his car was traveling nearly 75 miles an hour. He was approaching the city from the south."
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0035]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NW 3rd & Bdwy"."
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0036]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CHECKING THE DAMAGED FRONT END of one of two autos involved in a collision Tuesday at NW 23 and Meridian is accident investigator John Magill. Jode Frank Short, 20, of 200 N Beavers, Bethany, driver of the car shown in the foreground, was thrown from his car and suffered a leg injury when the auto collided with a station wagon driven by Howard Lowell Coleman, 32, of 1414 NE 48. Officer Magill said a tree may have obscured the vision of Coleman, who suffered a bruise on his forehead in the mishap. He charged Short with excessive speed"."
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0037]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "EN ROUTE TO HOSPITAL to visit her husband, Mrs. Irene Krogstad, being loaded in ambulance, above, became a patient there herself Thursday afternoon with injuries from a two car collisions at NW 3 and Broadway. Both she and Roy Krogstad, 1200 NW 41, are in Wesley hospital, she for x-ray examination of chest injuries."
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0048]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NW 3rd & Bdwy."
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0049]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NW 3rd and Broadway."
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0050]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nathaniel White, 1506 NE 10, surveys what happened when an auto came to call his living room. An Oklahoma City woman was injured Friday morning when the accelerator pedal stuck on her 1956 model auto and it rammed into the front of a duplex at 1506 NE 10. Mrs. Dorothy Monroe, who lives in the east side of the duplex at 1508 NE 10, suffered chest injuries and was taken to St. Anthony hospital. House Damage $2,500 Her car smashed into the front of the concrete-block constructed house, knocking a hole 10 feet by 10 feet. The car, the front end heavily damaged, stopped three feet inside the living room. Officer H.J. Bradshaw estimated damage to the house and furniture, which was littered with broken parts of concrete blocks. Nathaniel White, 23, was asleep in a bedroom of the duplex when the crash occurred. "I woke up in a hurry," he said. "I thought someone had dropped a bomb." Stop, Then a Roar-- Officer Bradshaw said Mrs. Monroe had stopped to allow a car to pass, and the turned into the driveway of her home when the accelerator …
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0052]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 15, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0194]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Crash At Airport Is Probed. An 18year-old Oklahoma City boy was in Hillcrest hospital here Wednesday with a possible brain concussion after his car turned over on a taxiway of Tulakes airport about 11 p.m. Tuesday. He is Ronald Rogers of 5817 NW 46. Police said they want to talk further with the boy and his companions to see what they were doing at the airport. The accident wasn't reported to the police until 3 a.m. Wednesday. James Rogers, 17, brother of the injured driver, said he and Tom Hamit, 16, of 5937 N Hammond, were passengers in the car. He told officers they were driving on the runway when they saw another car appear. The youth said they drove toward the other car to tell the driver to stay away when they hit loose gravel and turned over. The two passengers carried the driver to a hanger and called their parents, they told B.E. Phillips and E.W. Stevenson investigators. The officers said they found on evidence of a second car."
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0902]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "AN EARLY-MORNING CAR-TRAIN CRASH"
Date: April 16, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0838]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ONE DRIVER WAS KILLED when these two dump trucks collided in a fiery crash near Sulphur Tuesday. At the extreme right is the charred wreckage of a newly-purchased dump truck in which a 50 year old Wilson man, Claud Poteet, was burned to death."
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0071.0308]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There was a lot of action and good baseball here Tuesday after noon as Kansas City pulled out a spring exhibition win of 4-2 over Pittsburgh."
Date: April 10, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0091.0014]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "BLACK FOR ANOTHER crack at the Four ball title which eluded them in the final round last year are Beigh Black, left, and Tommy Black.."
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0091.0891]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BEIGH BLACK , left , and son Tommy beam with satisfaction Sunday after their 4 and 3 win over Elmer Humphreys and Rex Whiting..."
Date: April 28, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0091.0903]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WITH HIS CIGAR set at a determined angle , Beigh Black chips to the second green during Sunday 's semifinal four ball match at Lake Hefner.."
Date: April 28, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History