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BASEMENT BOX 67.0512

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of airplanes damaged from a fire. Caption: "A grass fire whipped by north breeze Monday furnished a funeral pyre for a group of the 'old standby' airplanes of World War II at Midwest City Airport, 6300 SE 15."
Date: December 11, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0020

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering structural wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Only these ruins remained of the Taboo Club near Midwest City after an early Monday morning blaze gutted the concrete block structure which was padlocked at one time by the county attorney's office, when known as the Highland Club."
Date: December 1, 1951
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0497

Description: Daytime of three fire fighters putting out hot spots of house fire. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's what was left of Miss Viola Kohl's five-room home after it exploded."
Date: February 26, 1952
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0510

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of unidentified young people helping firefighters manage a structural fire. Caption: "Midwest City students and teachers helped firemen battle high school blaze."
Date: July 29, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0465

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men watching a building burn. Caption: "Flames whipped by a 35-mile-an-hour north wind leveled two frame classroom structures and gutted a larger brick building housing the cafeteria and classrooms of Sooner School, SE 15 and Sooner Road, a half mile west of Midwest City, at noon Saturday."
Date: February 27, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0463

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a smoldering building during or after a fire. Caption: "Flames are shown eating through Sooner school, SE 15 and Sooner Road, in a Saturday blaze which did $60,000 damage. Cause was undetermined."
Date: February 28, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0163

Description: Photograph of two men in firefighter suits with fire hoses standing in wrecked building interior. Caption: "Resembling men from Mars, firemen Wallace Reed, left, and M. W. Johnson emerge from the smoke-filled Elks building wearing oxygen masks."
Date: May 24, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0485

Description: Photograph taken at night of burning debris. Caption: "Charred and flaming debris is all that's left of double garage and wash house which burned to the ground on the outskirts of Midwest City Wednesday, causing about $7,000 damage."
Date: September 12, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0117]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A double set of state executives could be found Friday in the governor's office, when the governor and lieutenant governor of Boys state came to call."
Date: June 12, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0479

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of wreckage destroyed by fire. Caption: "Only charred ruins remained Tuesday at the Herbert Caldwell home, NE 41 and Windsor Road, where three Caldwell children were burned to death Monday night."
Date: March 13, 1962
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0478

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing out of a burning building. Caption: "Smoke from blazing furniture store could be seen for miles."
Date: October 11, 1963
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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