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[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 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 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 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 66.0340

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a smoking structural fire using a fire hose and ladder. Caption: "Blaze at Penn Industries, 1239 W Main, Saturday shortly before 2 p.m. District Fire Chief Chester Williams said firemen snuffed out the blaze in about 15 minutes, but not before it destroyed $14,000 worth of auto upholstery and damaged the building itself to the tune of $3,000."
Date: December 8, 1978
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0337

Description: Photograph of firefighters investigating the charred ruins of a building interior damaged by fire. Caption: "Dave Dallas, fire inspector, sifts through rubble after $250,000 blaze."
Date: February 1, 1973
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0229]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a hotel fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows fire department personnel using a high pressure water hose and a shovel crane to extinguish hot spots in the debris. A barricade, traffic light, and street signs are in the scene, and black and green wax pencil editorial marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Crane finishes off fire-ravaged hotel."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0594]

Description: Photograph of the destroyed front of Foster Department Store. Part of the brick wall of the structure has collapsed in to the street. The roof and all the inside of the building has been consumed by fire and destroyed. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: April 18, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0311

Description: Photograph of firefighters among charred debris of building after a fire. Caption: "Debris litters the Ketch Decorating Center after a two alarm fire."
Date: December 31, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0395

Description: Daytime with four fire fighters on roof of residence. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "the inside of the Gary Holliday home, 1704 Andover Court, in The Village Tuesday."
Date: August 22, 1973
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 66.0265]

Description: Photograph displays three firemen handling a firehose with a roaring fire consuming a metal building in the background. One of the firemen has his back turned to the camera, showing "GOMEZ OCFD" Caption: "Firemen set up another hose to battle the Monday morning Public Supply warehouse blaze, which destroyed the building and contents."
Date: March 28, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0374

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a house destroyed by fire. Caption: "Stand stark against the sky Sunday after a Saturday night fire destroyed this home at 11117 N Leaning Elm and took the life of Mrs. Ida J. Green, wife of Joseph J. Green."
Date: September 16, 1978
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0432

Description: Photograph taken of man standing near building wreckage after fire. Caption: "James Buckley, a volunteer from Midwest City, holds a dry fire hose surveying the ruins of grocery and feed stores."
Date: August 29, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0400]

Description: A daylight photograph of a house fire on northwest Seventeenth Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows three boys watching a fireman on the roof of the burned and smoking residence. Caption: "$3,000 Damages.
Date: December 25, 1974
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0333

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters standing near a burning structure. Caption: "Smoke billows from Edwards Elementary School where four rooms were gutted."
Date: July 30, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0339

Description: Photograph of a charred piano damaged by fire. Caption: "Arson attack on Northeast High School left charred piano and damage to the auditorium stage."
Date: June 18, 1973
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0371

Description: Photograph taken at night of firefighters working to extinguish a building blaze. Caption: "An Oklahoma City fireman, left, pours water into the front of a burning building as three other firemen attempt to douse flames by spraying water through window on the northwest corner of the building."
Date: December 26, 1973
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0429

Description: Photograph of a man searching through charred debris in a building interior after a fire. Caption: "Salesman Ken Keeton searches through rubble."
Date: June 26, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0342

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of workmen using a crane to manage building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Fire Chief Delbert McMurphy said Friday he would make at least one recommendation to make fighting fires like the one which caused an estimated $600,000 damage to Fairview's newest shopping mall, an easier task in the future. 'Build real good firewalls . . . put in less ceilings, and it wouldn't hurt to put in some more stairways,' McMurphy said."
Date: September 5, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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