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BASEMENT BOX 67.0248

Description: Photograph taken at night of crowd standing near charred ruins. Caption: "The Chickasha Chiefs of the Sooner State League were Tuesday the citizens of Chickasha were behind them. Borden park, the city-owned diamond, was destroyed by fire Saturday night."
Date: August 14, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0259]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a structure that was destroyed by fire. There is metal rubble and burnt wood standing and strewn across the ground. Smoke is still lightly rising from the remains. Caption: "Still smoldering Thursday were ruins of the Chickasha Cotton Oil compress of Chickasha after fire late Wednesday night did damage estimated at $90,000."
Date: October 4, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Fire at Claremore Business District]

Description: A daylight photograph of a fire at Claremore in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Onlookers watch as firemen endure intense smoke while battling a fire in the Claremore business district. Black wax pencil and editing marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Claremore business district blazes under clouds of dense smoke Friday."
Date: February 21, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0379

Description: Photograph taken at night of a house fire with a car in the foreground. Caption: "An electrical short in the attic was cited as the cause of a fire at 1109 SW 61 Wednesday night."
Date: November 28, 1973
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0374]

Description: Photograph three unidentified men walk through a field near a line of fire in the field. Smoke is rising next to where they are walking. one man is holding a coat and wearing a hat while the man behind him appears to be in a firemen's uniform. Caption: "High winds Tuesday afternoon fanned a grass fire at the Little Axe community east of here into a raging prairie blaze covering approximately two square miles."
Date: March 13, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0194

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters with hoses and firetrucks working to manage a fire. Caption: "The spectacular fire destroyed nearly a block of business buildings and caused damage expected to approach $1 million."
Date: January 27, 1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0368

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a firefighter working in the charred wreckage of a burned building. Caption: "A fire touched off by an apparent short circuit heavily damaged a massive air conditioning unit at United Founders Life Tower Thursday, shooting flames dangerously close to the cylindrical office building and prompting firemen to turn in a precautionary second alarm, authorities said."
Date: May 10, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0141]

Description: Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0549

Description: Aftermath of fire showing debris and three on lookers in background. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rainbow club lies in ruins after fire in Poteau."
Date: May 7, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0518

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of two women standing next to display in storefront window. Caption: "In front of the Mountain Park garage where Saturday auctions have been held to raise money for the school, Mrs. Elzie Noble, left, and Mrs. Henry Dotson, admire the quilt contributed by eight ladies of the community for the last sale."
Date: March 5, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0294]

Description: Photograph is of a brick building with smoke rising from the roof. A fire truck is parked in front of the building with fire hoses on the ground leading away from the truck. Two unidentified firemen are directly in front of the building. one is walking towards a ladder leaned on the brick building while the other is spraying a fire hose in the front door of the building. The photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Bokchito School in Durant"
Date: December 6, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0366

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd viewing a building fire. Caption: "The Frederick Grain & Seed Co. elevator. C. S. Worsham, manager, said damage will amount to $80,000."
Date: April 29, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0302

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of three people examining the charred ruins after a structural fire. Caption: "Northwest High School students examine ruins of project destroyed by fire."
Date: October 10, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0225]

Description: Photograph is of the front corner of a single story brick building. the windows and doors are missing and smoke is billowing out of the roof of the structure. There is a group of unidentified men in the background surveying the damage. Caption: "Fire razes highway warehouse at Buffalo"
Date: September 2, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0088

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd standing near a building gutted by fire. Caption: "This brick skeleton against the sky was the sight that greeted Putnam City High School students Monday morning after a Sunday night fire--the second in 13 months--destroyed the school with a loss of $100,000."
Date: January 5, 1942
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0438

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men surveying an oil well. Caption: "Oklahoma's second oil well fire within a week continued to burn wildly 10 miles east of Madill Saturday, sending an orange flame towering 50 feet into the air."
Date: August 23, 1964
Creator: Garner, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0254]

Description: An interior photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "[Charred waste] of insulating materials litters floor of Myriad Convention Center's exhibit hall after a Thursday morning fire."
Date: March 9, 1972
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0291]

Description: Photograph is of a large group of people in the street observing and helping to spray water from fire hoses on multiple buildings that are burning on a main street. Debris, rubble and water is in the street in front of the crowd.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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