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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0561]

Description: Photograph is of the wreckage from a fire. The roof is missing and charred remains lie around the perimeter and inside of structure. Part of one outside brick wall has fallen. Smoke is still rising from the destroyed structure. Active fire hoses are leading into the building from the street. Caption: "Early - morning blaze turns Shawnee Lumber Plant into rubble."
Date: September 21, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0159]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gambling war reports were being investigated by Pottawatomie county officials Saturday after a bomb planted in the station wagon of a Mc Cloud gambler, blew the vehicle's front end to bits and seriously hurt the gambler E.C. "Shorty" Coulson, 58, the dynamite blast went off when Coulson attempted to start the station wagon after closing his hilltop Supper club four miles west of Mc Cloud."
Date: March 21, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0160]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "gang land bomb that critically injured Pottawatomie county gambler E. C. "Shorty" Coulston early Saturday was secured to the motor of his station wagon in the area circled above."
Date: March 21, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1050.0056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Among All The exhibits on display at the 10th annual Oklahoma Safety conference, the most interesting to married men are these sound barrier ear muffs."
Date: May 21, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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