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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0532]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Killed in this plane crackup near Holdenville was C. A. Dahse, 26, Big Spring, Texas, businessman, who was the object of wide-spread search for two days."
Date: June 21, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0158]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Railroad recovery specialist maneuver a timber into place as the acid filled tank looms behind them like some unexploded bomb."
Date: April 5, 1969
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0376]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Ida Lee Cook, a long-time Holdenville educator and grandmother of nine, was elected Saturday as new state president of the Oklahoma Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club."
Date: April 12, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0177]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sixteen cars of a Frisco freight train derailed between Wetumka and Yeager early Friday, rupturing at least four tank cars containing sulfuric acid and a highly flammable petroleum distillate."
Date: December 22, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0167

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building. People stand nearby. Caption: "Boiling smoke marks the scene of the Wetumka fire which caused damage to downtown businesses estimated at up to $300,000 Sunday."
Date: February 12, 1963
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 67.0230

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighter extinguishing a burning structure with a fire hose. Caption: "Firemen hose down what may have been the largest peanut roast in history at a warehouse in Calvin."
Date: January 9, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0506]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dustin High School graduate Albert C. Cook, 59, gets an assist with his cap and gown from son Monterey, 18, a Boy's State selection who will be a senior next year."
Date: May 19, 1954
Creator: Cummings, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0425]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A rock-slide Saturday destroyed a half mile of Rock Island railroad track and a $100,000 highway bridge construction over the South Canadian River on S,. H. 48, seven miles south of here."
Date: 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0293B.0392]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Most familiar sign in Holdenville is this one which has stood in the middle of Main Street since October, 1959, warning travelers S. H. 48 is closed to traffic."
Date: January 20, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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