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[2012.201.B0051.0184]
Military plane crash landing at Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Plane Flies Here for Crash Landing. A Tennessee Air National Guard C-97 transport crash landed at Tinker Air Force Base Tuesday. The six-man crew scrambled safely out of the plane after it stopped skidding along one of the field`s secondary runways. Maj. John L. Wade, 38, Murfreesboro, Tenn., commanded the plane that landed on the runway, partially covered with foam by the Tinker crash-rescue crew. Shortly after taking off from Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark., around 10 a.m. the crew learned the the right landing gear was not operating properly. In landing at Tinker, Wade gently let the left gear hit ground first ... then the nose wheel. Smoke puffed out as the wheels touched down. Wade held the hanging right wheel off the ground as long as possible. Then he let it lightly touch the runway. For nearly 2,500 feet the plane, with all wheels on the ground, rolled down the runway in a normal manner as crash trucks and ambulances raced toward it. Suddenly, the right gear crumpled. The right wing fell down. A propeller blade was …
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0185]
Officials approaching a military plane to find out what when wrong. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHY? Military Air Transport Service Wednesday wanted to know why this C-97 had landing gear troubles Tuesday threatening the lives of the six-man crew. The pilot executed what the Air Force called "a beautiful landing" in spite of the difficulty. The crew walked away unharmed. Tinker`s crash crews had spread foam on the runways in an attempt to stall a fire on the forced crash-landing."
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0186]
U. S. Air Guard plane on the runway. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0257]
Daytime photo of plane wreck with an ambulance and firemen on scene. Officials inspect wreckage in a city area. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the Tulsa Fire Department and emergency workers inspect wreckage of a plane that crashed into a divided residential street in the neighborhood near the Tulsa International Airport. The two people in the plane were killed."
Date:
August 13, 1982
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0355]
A group of people looking an airplane that sets with its propeller in the dirt and its tail in the sky. One man is peering into the cockpit. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A LANDING."
Date:
August 21, 1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0356]
An airplane setting on one wheel and its propeller. The cabin door on the pilot's side is open. The windshield is in tact and three bystanders are looking through it. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Plane Takes Punch on Nose."
Date:
August 21, 1969
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0308.0085]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform leaning over looking at a baseball in his hand while another set of hands is gesturing two circles next to each other. Caption: "Bobby Howard, left, whose third straight single broke up the first game of the Oklahoma City-San Antonio doubleheader here Sunday night in favor of the Indians, gives pitcher Bart DiMaggio the no-hit, no-run signs after the latter beat the Missions 1-0 in the eighth inning of what was scheduled to be a seven-inning opener."
Date:
August 14, 1955
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0311.0339]
Photograph is of a group of boys and their coaches near the home plate in team picture formation. Caption: "Won the peewee 1 championship of the Harding area of the YMCA junior baseball program."
Date:
August 25, 1958
Creator:
Snodgrass, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0311.0393]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform holding a bat in his hands resting on his left shoulder. On his raised leg, six bats are resting.
Date:
August 3, 1938
Creator:
Cauthen, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0317.0329]
Photograph is oa head shot of a man wearing a baseball uniform.
Date:
August 30, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0317.0330]
Photograph is of a man dressed in a baseball uniform with a bat resting on his left shoulder.
Date:
August 24, 1949
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
2012.201.B0319.0093
Photograph of a seated woman in a dress and tiara holding a cat. Caption: "Club president Mrs. Sammy Eagy manages to show two of her hobbies in this picture-square dancing (her dress) and raising cats (note the Siamese kitten in her lap)."
Date:
August 4, 1967
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0358.0044]
Photograph is of a man wearing a naval uniform standing in front of a black car shining the front headlight. Caption: "Seaman J. E. Emerson polishes up the new automobile he won on a dollar investment."
Date:
August 18, 1950
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0363.0299]
Photograph is of a man sitting int he pilot's seat of an aircraft. Caption: "Gen. Howell M. Estes Jr., U. S. Air Force, Military Airlift Command"
Date:
August 18, 1964
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0366.0058]
Photograph is a head shot of a man wearing a Naval uniform. Caption: "Lowell Evans"
Date:
August 6, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0413.0223]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform sitting holding a baseball in his hand in his lap.
Date:
August 13, 1946
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0414.0099]
Photograph is a baseball team of young men in team photo formation with the coaches standing behind the kneeling and sitting team. Caption: "These Stan Waitie Owls are Peewee 1 champions of their league in the gigantic YMCA junior baseball circuit."
Date:
August 27, 1958
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0414.0245]
Photograph is of a young man wearing a button down shirt with his fingers from one hand on the other hand similar to if he was counting looking towards the ground.
Date:
August 11, 1946
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0417.0243]
Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform and cap smiling while seated at a table. His arm is resting on the table. Caption: "Tommy Fine, San Antonio"
Date:
August 10, 1951
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0417.0247]
Photograph is of a woman leaning on a piano with her hand on her chin watching the young man playing the piano. Caption: "Making almost a family project out of the first Mummers theater production of the season, "Strings and Things," are Glen Finefrock, musical director, and his wife, Joan, who's writing several of the Original sketches and lyrics."
Date:
August 24, 1959
Creator:
Fisher, Dawes
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0417.0277]
Photograph isof a man wearing a Navy uniform holding his hat on with his right hand while looking up towards the sky. Caption: "Gerald Finger trying to figure out Oklahoma weather."
Date:
August 10, 1943
Creator:
US Navy
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0422.0212]
Photograph is of a man in a catcher's uniform and sitting in the catcher's squat with his baseball glove. Caption: "Manager of the Seminole Redbirds"
Date:
August 8, 1935
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0422.0256]
Photograph is of a man wearing a US Navy dress uniform. Caption: "US Navy member."
Date:
August 21, 1944
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0423.0176]
Photograph is of a man sitting in the dugout and in a baseball uniform.
Date:
August 15, 1938
Creator:
Cauthen, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History