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[2012.201.B0092.0024]

Description: Photograph of a man with a toddler and a bouquet of flowers. Caption: "Lots of dolls can talk and smile, but it took 3-year-old Dee Dee Black - Oklahoma's cerebral palsy theme child for 1969 - to tug at the heartstrings of Gov. Bartlett Thursday during their brief meeting in the capitol ."
Date: December 12, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George

2012.201.B0238.0561

Description: Photograph of a woman with Christmas decorations. Caption: "NW Expressway, placing a Christmas dinner table centerpiece she fashioned using a Santa Clause figurine, Christmas tree, packages and puff balls arranged on a wooden base."
Date: December 11, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe

[2012.201.B0298.0113]

Description: Photograph is a photo of four young women wearing white dresses holding matching flower bouquets standing on a stage. Caption: "night yesterday, 15 debutantes were presented at a holiday ball held in Tinker Air Force Base Officers Club."
Date: December 27, 1968
Creator: Miller, Joe

[2012.201.B0415.0084]

Description: Photograph is of a man with a young boy at a table. the man is wrapping a fruit cake in plastic wrap while the boy watches. Caption: "During the holidays, William r. Ferguson, disabled since an accident last July, is not forgetting the many persons who have helped him through a difficult period."
Date: December 22, 1964

[2012.201.B0960B.0138]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "NO-NONSENSE GUARD at the Oklahoma City convention center site was on duty Friday, despite the holiday for other project workers." Image is of a German Sheppard dog in profile as the dog stands on the other side of a chain link fence. A sign reads "Beware K9 dog" above the fence.
Date: December 26, 1969
Creator: Argo, Jim

[Basement Box 51.0106]

Description: Caption: "Burned Pillbox caused more woe for liquor store owner Byron Gambulos Tuesday night when lighting fluid leaked as he and a guard attempted to light a heater in the brand-new watchtower he built following two bombing of his store at NW 23 and Broadway in the last two months." Firemen outside of burned structure.
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Lucas, Jim

[Basement Box 51.0110]

Description: Caption: "Charred wreckage of Pa and Ma's little Food Mart, 4212 NE 23, smolders Thursday after wind-fanned flames did an estimated $10,000 damage." Firemen putting out fire on roof of Pa and Ma's little Food Mart.
Date: December 12, 1968
Creator: Miller, Joe

[Basement Box 51.0123]

Description: Caption: "A two-alarm fire damaged one building and others early Monday at the Free Will Baptist Church, 2300 SW 30. Assistant Chief Nim Newberry said the fire started in the kitchen area of the educational building and damaged several classroom." Top of church steeple seen through collapsed roof after fire.
Date: December 16, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George

[Basement Box 51.0124]

Description: Caption: "INTENSE HEAT melted candles in educational building of Free Will Baptist Church Monday as fire did an estimated $10,000 damage. Fire investigators have not eliminated the possibility of arson." Charred electric candles.
Date: December 16, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George

[Basement Box 51.0126]

Description: Caption: "BURNED BEDS were thrown from balcony above during two-alarm fire at the Downtowner Motor Hotel, 1305 N. Classen Dr. early Wednesday. Arrow points to second floor storage room where the beds were kept and where the fire began." Charred beds in front of burned building.
Date: December 11, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0080]

Description: Caption: "Fire possibly caused by an electrical short burned a portion of ceiling in the main floor of Oklahoma City University's library Friday morning." Two men walking into Oklahoma City University's library to inspect fire damage.
Date: December 6, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0108]

Description: Caption: "Charred timber and ashes are all that remains of this section of the Six Thousand Pennsylvania Apartment Community, NW 59 and Pennsylvania, hit by a $35,000, two alarm fire early this morning." Charred remains of home.
Date: December 15, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0436]

Description: Photograph is of the interior of a home that is in shambles with burnt rubble and debris covering the floor. The walls has plaster missing and the roof and windows are gone due to a fire. Caption: "Flames could be seen for more than a mile as they consumed this vacant house in the 7700 block of Melrose Lane shortly before midnight Friday."
Date: December 29, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
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