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BASEMENT BOX 67.0388

Description: Raging house fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Swirling flames envelope the upstairs room in which Mrs. Minnie Hawkins burned to death in a Holdenville apartment house fire Tuesday morning."
Date: December 22, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0393]

Description: Photograph is of a structure burning to the ground completely engulfed in flames and smoke. Debris is surrounding the structure as it burns. Caption: "Nobody will park between signs at a time like this."
Date: January 14, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0390]

Description: Photograph is of the corner of a wood siding structure that is still standing as the rest of the structure in the background is completely engulfed in flames. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Walls topples over as apartment house in Holdenville burns to the ground Tuesday, killing Mrs. Minnie Hawkins."
Date: January 14, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0392]

Description: Photograph is of a barn overtaken by smoke. A fire pump truck is parked in front of the structure. Photograph is taken in the day time. Caption: "Smoke obscures all but a dim outline of a huge hay barn on the Carl Jackson place northwest of Seminole as the fire reaches a peak."
Date: January 14, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0394]

Description: Photograph is of a structure completely engulfed in flames and smoke. All that is visible is the side of the structure's wood siding. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Flames leap high from a blazing Holdenville apartment house Tuesday in which one person, Mrs. Minnie Hawkins, 65, died ."
Date: December 23, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0391

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firemen extinguishing a fire. Caption: "Seminole firemen direct tons of water on a $25,000 hay fire on the Carl Jackson place one mile northwest of Seminole."
Date: January 5, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0389]

Description: Photograph is of several unidentified men putting a fire out in the inside of a hay barn. The front doors are open and a fire pump truck is parked in front of the barn. Fire hoses are running along the ground to other parts of the building. Caption: "Burning trash which blew from the barrel in right foreground was blamed for starting a $25,000 hay fire on the Carl Jackson place two miles northwest of Seminole Sunday."
Date: January 14, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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