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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0358]

Description: A daylight photograph showing military and non-military personnel at a structure fire at Fort Sill near Lawton, Oklahoma. Items are being removed from the structure as smoke pours from the top floor windows of the two-story building. No caption.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0357]

Description: Photograph is of a structure that is completely destroyed by fire. Flames and smoke are rising from the few standing pieces of the structure. The structure appears to be on a corner with an industrial area behind the destroyed structure.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0600]

Description: Photograph of about twenty unidentified men observing two men, one clearly a fireman, on the roof of a building engulfed in smoke and flames. A fire hose is aiming water on the roof of the one story structure from a high height in the foreground right in the image. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: July 12, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0410

Description: Silhouette of a man with smoke in background, daytime. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A grim watch was being kept Saturday over the still smoldering remains of the Wichita Mountain fire which broke out Thursday."
Date: August 3, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0425

Description: Photograph of people watching as firefighters extinguish a building on fire. Caption: "Smoke fills an alley, hampering operations of firemen battling Wednesday night's $300,000 fire in downtown Lawton."
Date: July 26, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0412

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a burning landscape. Caption: "Billowing smoke from a raging prairie fire in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge near Lawton Thursday was visible more than 30 miles away."
Date: August 2, 1963
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0423

Description: Four story Hotel, burned out, street view with fire trucks and fire fighters. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen pour water on the Midland hotel in Lawton Thursday after blaze broke out in the southwest portion of the building."
Date: September 14, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0426

Description: Photograph taken at night of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Firemen fight to contain flames surging through the Lawton store of the C. R. Anthony Co. The store was completely gutted by the fire, the second major blaze in downtown Lawton in two months."
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0605]

Description: Photograph is of a field fire viewed through a tree as the fire moved forward across the land. The photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Flames burst from burning weeds and grass in a field east of Lawton as the leasee of part of the Indian lands worked to clear the area."
Date: January 23, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0355]

Description: Photograph is of a wood sided building and off a structure that is completely destroyed by fire except for the brick support structures. Smoke is still rising from the ground. There are several unidentified people in the photograph surveying the damage to the building from a distance. Caption: "Library."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0414

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building on fire. Caption: "$1.5 Million Fire routed 2,000 customers and 300 employees in Lawton late Monday when this Trade Mart Discount Department Store burned."
Date: December 22, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0227

Description: Photograph taken at night of a fiery blaze consuming a building. Caption: "Fire which apparently originated in Ken's Grocery store had spread to two adjoining buildings."
Date: February 4, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0405

Description: aerial view of mountain fires, daytime. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smoke from raging prairie fire engulfs Wichita Mountains, looking west from air near Mount Scott."
Date: August 2, 1963
Creator: Garner, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0417

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing fire at The Record Shop building. Caption: "Two firemen overcome by smoke in this $25,000 blaze in Lawton Tuesday. Tommy Hutchins and Leland Brown, were reported in good condition Tuesday night."
Date: June 11, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0352]

Description: A daylight photograph taken at Fort Sill near Lawton in Comanche County, Oklahoma. The image shows the remains of a large brick building destroyed by fire. Men are present, including one using a fire hose to water debris. Numerous heating radiators are visible in the rubble. No caption.
Date: June 18, 1925
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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