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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0141]

Description: Photograph is of the side of an oil storage tank and a truck that is parked next to the tank. There are black marks on the side of the tank from a previous fire. Smoke is still rising from the burnt truck next to the tank. Caption: "Euel Phillips, 33, Cushing, died in Mercy hospital here Friday morning of burns received Thursday afternoon when a nearby truck ignited a partially-filled 80,000-barrel oil tank in the 4200 block E. Reno."
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0377

Description: Daylight photograph of a grass fire along an unidentified Oklahoma roadway. The image shows grass blackened by fire as flames advance toward underbrush. No caption.
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0400]

Description: A daylight photograph of a house fire on northwest Seventeenth Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows three boys watching a fireman on the roof of the burned and smoking residence. Caption: "$3,000 Damages.
Date: December 25, 1974
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0452]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a hard hat and holding a flashlight surveying the damage from a fire. There is a set of shelves with debris strewn across the shelves and on the floor. Caption: "Lorin Mackey, assistant director of the environmental health division of the city-county health department, examines debris left in grocery store fire."
Date: December 25, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0442

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire with a fire hose. Caption: "Firemen battle a blaze which engulfed four buildings Tuesday afternoon."
Date: October 25, 1967
Creator: Wood, Tony
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0282

Description: Back of fireman in front of burning building. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Firefighter awaits hose as garage blazes Thursday"
Date: May 25, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0229

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of structural wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Twisted metal and smoking debris is all that remains of Calumet's only feed mill"
Date: September 25, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0429

Description: Fire truck with water hose putting out fire of BJ Goodrich tires and restaurant.Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's worst fire since 1919, possibly set by an arsonist, gutted four downtown buildings Friday night, causing damages estimated as high as $400,000."
Date: May 25, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0376]

Description: A daylight photograph of underbrush burning in a Lincoln County, Oklahoma, grass fire. Caption: "Thickets went up in flames before the Lincoln County fire were under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0397]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a fiery explosion at an automobile agency in Perry, Noble County, Oklahoma. The blast, caused by an explosion of liquefied petroleum gas (propane), damaged buildings and vehicles. Caption: "Firemen probe through the blackened ruins of a Perry automobile agency where a liquefied petroleum gas explosion Thursday set off a fire which destroyed 43 cars and other vehicles."
Date: July 25, 1974
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0249]

Description: Photograph is of a metal structure completely consumed by flames with a large fireball rising around every bit of the structure. The interior of the structure is completely consumed with fire too. The remains are seen in silhouette and wrapped in fire. Caption: "A three-hour fire which burned out of control for a short time completely gutted the elevator and warehouse of the Chic-o-line Feet Company here Monday night. No one was injured although several red-hot sheets of tin fell from the roof … more
Date: February 25, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0228

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of structural wreckage after building fire. Caption: "Scorched remains is all that remains of a fire which destroyed a feed mill in Calumet today"
Date: September 25, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0644]

Description: Photograph shows a truck driving down a dirt road with a man riding in the bed of the truck. The truck is driving towards a grey cloud of smoke. The fields on either side of the road are burnt. Caption: "The fire was first spotted about 9 a.m., and it wasn't until 3 p.m. that it was brought under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0157

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of man spraying water from a hose onto a gas pump. The charred wreckage of a building burns in the background. Caption: "Turpin, Okla., April 19 - Firemen from Liberal, Kan., 10 miles north, arrived in time to prevent only the explosion of gasoline pumps and storage tanks in front of the Smith Motor Co. & Hardware which burned to the ground."
Date: May 25, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0140]

Description: Photograph is of an oil storage tank with a burnt truck next to the tank. There are burnt marks up the side of the tank indicating a fire. Caption: "Sinclair Oil Tank - 4200 block E. Reno"
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0445

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters near a pile of charred debris. Caption: "Blaze around garage at 2624 SW 30 where 19-month-old Jerald Brown Jr., was burned Friday afternoon."
Date: August 25, 1967
Creator: Derby, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0128

Description: Photograph taken at night of a brush fire. Caption: "Wind whipped flames, cracking through tinder-dry brush and pastures near Shawnee, presented this spectacular horizon Sunday night as volunteers frantically fought to control the threat."
Date: March 25, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0520

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firemen among charred wreckage after a building fire. Caption: "Firemen work in the smoldering ruins of the Nash High School auditorium which was destroyed by fire, at a loss estimated at $40,000, late Thursday."
Date: January 25, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0299]

Description: A daylight photograph of African American children watching as an abandoned building burns behind a stand of trees in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Youngsters watch vacant structure burn Thursday."
Date: March 25, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0139]

Description: Photograph is of an oil storage tank with two burnt trucks in front of the tank. A group of unidentified men are spraying a water hose on one of the trucks and surveying the damaged area. Caption: "Sinclair Oil Tank, 4200 block E Reno"
Date: September 25, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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