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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 67.0154

Description: Photograph taken in a building interior of a man inspecting charred debris and wreckage from a building fire. Caption: "Burned bargains are surveyed by F. L. Sills, clerk at the House of Bargains, 3400 SE 29."
Date: November 7, 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0112]

Description: A daylight photograph of a lone man, surrounded by heavy smoke, fighting a large grass fire near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Firemen from three stations battled a 'king sized' grass fire for more than three hours northeast of Oklahoma City Wednesday before bringing it under control at 4 p.m."
Date: November 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0169

Description: Photograph taken during evening hours of three men inspecting an explosives truck after a fire. Caption: "Looking at dynamite compartment of truck that suddenly burst into flames near Ringling are driver Clinton Carline and Capt. Clarence C. Greenhill and Sgt. Doyle Nichols of Fort Sill."
Date: November 21, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0588

Description: Photograph taken at night of a brick building on fire. Caption: "Flames leaped high into the air Sunday as firemen battled to save Wilburton Milling Co. at Wilburton ."
Date: November 14, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0597]

Description: Photograph of four firemen on a large pile of material spraying hoses on the smoldering material. Photograph was taken int he day time.Caption: "Firemen battled wind and cold and unwilling hoses early Thursday in bringing a Yukon gin fire under control."
Date: November 26, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0219]

Description: A daylight photograph of a grass fire at an unidentified location in Oklahoma. The image shows a group of individuals near a smoky brush fire in a ravine. Brown discoloration and red and black wax pencil marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Smoke rises from smoldering grass in a ravine."
Date: November 26, 1965
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0456

Description: Fire fighter and civilian looking at fire damage. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Destroyed dormitory is surveyed Saturday by Bob Daugherty, left, operator of the Wagon Wheel "Dude Ranch" remedial school at McLoud, and Oklahoma City Fire Capt. L. M. Finney."
Date: November 21, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0230]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An estimated $60,000 damage resulted from a spectacular blaze Friday night at a luxury home on SH 37 one mile west of the H. E. Bailey Turnpike entrance."
Date: November 17, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0024

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of charred wreckage after a structural fire. Caption: "This was the scene of desolation after the disastrous fire last year."
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0319

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of gutted building after a fire. Caption: "Tortured Metal Wreckage gives mute evidence of the fury of a blaze sweeping Enid Foundry and Machine Shop Tuesday. The fire destroyed a one story wing of the sprawling plant and gutted the shop's 2 story section. Firemen narrowly prevented damage to the Johnson Elevator across the street. Gene Marritt, foundry owner, who estimated loss at $100,000-plus, said some of his 32 workers will return Wednesday for salvage and c… more
Date: November 22, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0476]

Description: Photograph is of the burnt front door of a residence. There is burnt debris in front of the entrance of the home in the front lawn that is burnt. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "THREE CHILDREN DIED as a result of this morning fire Sunday at 203 W Ercoupe, Midwest City."
Date: November 16, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0031

Description: Photograph of a firefighter's helmet and fire arms laying on a charred, wet table. Caption: "And a water splashed fireman's helmet symbolically marks the tragic Thanksgiving Day fire that took the lives of five children at the Warr Acres convalescent home for handicapped children."
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0182]

Description: A daylight photograph taken from the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, showing a fire near Northwest Fourth Street and Klein Avenue. Red wax pencil marks are visible on the image. Caption: "[Smoke and flames] from fire near NW 4 and Klein were recorded in this picture taken from the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. building at NW 3 and Harvey by Dow Dozier of OG&E."
Date: November 30, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0547

Description: Ponca City furniture store night time fire with fireman in "cherry picker" dowsing the fire from on high. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fireman fights raging downtown Ponca City blaze from high perch Wednesday night as he directs stream of water into blazing furniture store and clothing store."
Date: November 21, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0369]

Description: A daylight photograph of three firemen using fire hoses to combat a fire at an unidentified business at Frederick in Tillman County, Oklahoma. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Frederick had quite a time-and quite a scare-Friday morning."
Date: November 3, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0365

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering building on fire. Caption: "More than $250,000 went up in smoke in Frederick this weekend when fire destroyed a seed house and 116 tons of cottonseed belonging to the Chickasha Cotton Oil Co., along with a conveyor and cleaning machinery."
Date: November 7, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0395]

Description: Photograph two groupings of men are each spraying a fire hose on a building on the main street that is engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "High wind, boiling smoke foiled firemen Saturday as flames destroyed this Hugo feed company plant."
Date: November 26, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0105

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men working to control a smoldering building fire while a crowd looks on. Caption: "Bethany had a $7,000 fire loss Friday afternoon where it hurt most--the fire house went up in smoke."
Date: November 15, 1947
Creator: Cherry, Allen B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0318

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of structural wreckage and broken fan. Caption: "Tortured metal wreckage gives mute evidence of the fury of a blaze sweeping Enid Foundry and Machine Shop Tuesday. The fire destroyed a one story wing of the sprawling plant and gutted the shop's 2 story section. Firemen narrowly prevented damage to the Johnson Elevator across the street. Gene Marritt, foundry owner, who estimated loss at $100,000-plus, said some of his 32 workers will return Wednesday for salvage… more
Date: November 22, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0303

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a building destroyed from a fire. Caption: "The Saddle Club, a gambling casino closed by police and public opinion for more than a year, was hit by fire early Thursday morning. The old casino was gutted. One of the walls on the west side burned to the ground and the fire destroyed much of the roof."
Date: November 26, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0364

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters working to extinguish a retail business fire with firetrucks and fire hoses. Caption: "A fire that sent dense black smoke soaring high above downtown Oklahoma City today swept through a vacant warehouse building at NW 10 and Broadway, causing $40,000 damage."
Date: November 15, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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