[BASEMENT BOX 67.0246]
Description:
A daylight photograph showing the damage caused by a fire at the Cotton Compress Company warehouse in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma. A crowd watches as men use fire hoses to water the smoldering debris. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "COMPRESS DAMAGE IS SET AT $500,000 A 45-mile-an-hour wind Sunday fanned a blaze from papers under a loading dock into the Cotton Compress Co. warehouse, destroying about $500,000 worth of cotton and facilities."
Date:
March 27, 1950
Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society