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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0602]

Description: Photograph shows seven unidentified men and five children observing and working around a structure that smoke is rising from the roof. Flames are coming out the top of the building as well. There is a ladder in the forefront of the image indicating that someone tried to assess the situation from a ladder on the roof. This photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Fireman effort is futile as the Tonkawa Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment burns."
Date: December 22, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0614]

Description: Photograph is of main street in Synder, OK. A fire has consumed three businesses on the main street that were next to each other. The rubble is in the street. A man helps guide a fire hose through the buildings. Smoke is raising out of the center of one of the buildings. This photograph was taken during the day time.
Date: April 27, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0625]

Description: Photograph of the remains of a building on the main street in Binger, OK. The roof is missing, the front windows are gone, and the side of the structure has begun to fall down. Smoke is still rising from the remains. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "A sudden blaze which for a time Tuesday night threatened the entire town of Binger before its populace fought the fire and saved other buildings. left a general store and theater only a shell of blackened ruins."
Date: December 17, 1946
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0600]

Description: Photograph of about twenty unidentified men observing two men, one clearly a fireman, on the roof of a building engulfed in smoke and flames. A fire hose is aiming water on the roof of the one story structure from a high height in the foreground right in the image. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: July 12, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0617]

Description: Photograph is an aerial view of a water pump truck spraying water on the remains of a store on the main street. Rubble and bricks lay in the street from the burnt building. Smoke is rising from the center of the building. Caption: "Ruins of a fire in Bartlesville on Christmas day which resulted in loss estimated at $250,000, are shown above."
Date: December 27, 1932
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0607]

Description: Photograph of fire damage to the main street in Synder, OK. This is an aerial shot of the main street showing the three conjoined buildings that were damaged. Three unidentified men are together in the middle of the street. Many fire hoses are in the street as well. Smoke is still rising from the burnt shell of the building remains.
Date: April 26, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0618]

Description: Photograph is of a crowd of unidentified men observing a fire in an industrial area. There are hoses in the forefront of the photograph between the crowd of men and industrial buildings on fire. Smoke is rising in the background of the picture.
Date: April 19, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0624]

Description: Photograph is of a flour silo engulfed in flames. A man is running along side the building away from the part of the structure that the smoke is coming from. It appears the fire is from within the structure.
Date: July 2, 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0599]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen holding a hose aimed at a two story brick building. Smoke is coming out the roof and window of the building. Photograph appears to have been taken in the day time.. Caption: "Durant fireman worked through Sunday to snuff out remains of fire in old junior high school building."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0615]

Description: Photograph is of a large building consumed with flames and smoke. The roof has been destroyed. A man stands in silhouette surveying the fire. A stream of water, presumably from a hose, is spraying the building from the foreground of the photograph. The photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "James E. Berry, acting governor, Tuesday ordered W. C. Theimer, state fire marshal, and an assistant to investigate the blaze which Monday night destroyed the $18,000 lodge and boathouse at the … more
Date: August 2, 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0603]

Description: Photograph is of a crowd of unidentified men observing black smoke rising out of the top of a tall wheat storage bin. Water is being sprayed on the storage building. Photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Fire fighters try vainly to control flames which whipped through wheat at the Mulhall Co-operative association storage bin Thursday, destroying the bin and some 10,000 to 20,000 bushels of grain."
Date: May 22, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0605]

Description: Photograph is of a field fire viewed through a tree as the fire moved forward across the land. The photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Flames burst from burning weeds and grass in a field east of Lawton as the leasee of part of the Indian lands worked to clear the area."
Date: January 23, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0601]

Description: Photograph shows flames consuming the roof of an aluminum rounded roof building. Smoke and flames are spilling out of the top of the building from all doorways, edges and windows. A fire truck is in the foreground of the photograph. No person is present in the image. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Fireman try in vain to curb McAlester surplus store blaze that Thursday caused extensive damage."
Date: January 26, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0613]

Description: Photograph is an overview shot of downtown El Reno where a fire has destroyed a row of concrete elevators. The smoldering rubble of the elevators is piled where the structures once stood. The photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Fire sweeps wide area standing like a sentinel. a row of concrete elevators Sunday "broke "the fire that swept the Canadian Mill and Elevator Co. plant at El Reno, and probably saved the business district."
Date: July 1, 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0609]

Description: Photograph is an aerial of a large building in El Reno that is on fire. There are crowds lining the street to observe the building burning. There are firemen near the building with fire hoses attempting to control the fire. Fire is on the roof and smoke coming out the roof of the building.
Date: July 2, 1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0610]

Description: Photograph of the main street in Synder, OK. A fire has destroyed three buildings. This photograph shows the burned out shell of the grocery and drug store. There is no roof present and the windows and doors are missing. Rubble is strewn on the sidewalk in front of the building. A fire hose is in the right corner of the image. Smoke is still rising from the rubble.
Date: April 27, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0619]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a structured that was filled with hay. Much of the exterior structure is destroyed with just the metal frame remaining. No other structures are near the burned structure just a field, trees, and bushes. Caption: "His backfire backfired Sunday and Tom Williams' hay - filled frame garage went up in smoke."
Date: October 13, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0623]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of unidentified men watching as materials burn next to a large warehouse near a train track. Flames and smoke are present in the background of the photograph. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: August 14, 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0604]

Description: Photograph is of a man observing a fire damaged child's high chair. Photograph was taken during day time. Caption: "Surveying the damage caused by a mid-day fire in his University of Oklahoma home is Don W. Fry , Duncan."
Date: March 26, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0616]

Description: Photograph is of the main street of Synder, OK. A fire has destroyed three buildings on the main street. The smoldering remains are in the center of the photograph. Three men are surrounding the end of the water hose near the pump truck are surveying the damage.
Date: April 27, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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