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BASEMENT BOX 67.0263

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people milling around structures engulfed in billowing smoke. Caption: "A fire which swept through the William Cameron & Co. Lumberyard in Comanche Tuesday afternoon resulted in a $45,000 loss. Four nearby houses were damaged and the town's business district was threatened."
Date: December 1, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0038

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of an industrial complex engulfed in fire and billowing black smoke. Caption: "Here's an aerial view of the huge government-owned Plains Butadiene Plant Borger, Texas."
Date: September 2, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0036

Description: Photograph of an industrial complex engulfed by fire and billowing black smoke. Caption: "A roaring fire touched off by a series of rumbling explosions at the sprawling government-owned Plains butadiene plant near here was brought under control Saturday afternoon."
Date: September 3, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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