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BASEMENT BOX 67.0438

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men surveying an oil well. Caption: "Oklahoma's second oil well fire within a week continued to burn wildly 10 miles east of Madill Saturday, sending an orange flame towering 50 feet into the air."
Date: August 23, 1964
Creator: Garner, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0440

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of flames and smoke billowing from a burning structure. Caption: "This blazing oil well caused damage estimated at $270,000 as it burned out on the banks of Lake Texoma near Willis Tuesday."
Date: April 23, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0113

Description: Photograph taken at night of a well oil on fire. Caption: "A spectacular oil and gas fire roared 150 feet into the air over an oil well near NE 63 and Eastern for more than 5 1/2 hours Sunday morning."
Date: December 3, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0433

Description: Photograph taken during a daylight of smoke billowing from of a burning structure. Caption: "Consumed by flames is this oil well servicing truck located near the Quintin Little No. 1 oil well which burned about 6 hours Tuesday on the shore of lake Texhoma near Willis."
Date: April 24, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0437

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of an oil well on fire. Caption: "Flames shoot more than 50 feet up a 140-foot-high drilling rig Saturday near Madill as Joe Cawdell, Ardmore, district superintendent for Pure Oil Co."
Date: August 23, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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