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BASEMENT BOX 67.0194

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters with hoses and firetrucks working to manage a fire. Caption: "The spectacular fire destroyed nearly a block of business buildings and caused damage expected to approach $1 million."
Date: January 27, 1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0088

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd standing near a building gutted by fire. Caption: "This brick skeleton against the sky was the sight that greeted Putnam City High School students Monday morning after a Sunday night fire--the second in 13 months--destroyed the school with a loss of $100,000."
Date: January 5, 1942
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0245]

Description: Photograph is of a man standing in the middle of a large area that has been reduced to rubble by a fire. He appears to be surveying the damage and remains.. Caption: "Three Oklahoma fires took the lives of two persons Monday, destroyed a hotel and heavily damaged a shopping center. A house fire at Chester, in Major County, fatally burned Jim Smith, 82, and his wife, Anna. 70."
Date: January 15, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0386

Description: Eight fire fighters with hoses putting out daytime fire. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fireman pour water on smoldering ruins of Hockaday Hardware store here Tuesday, endangering four other buildings."
Date: January 8, 1963
Creator: Composing
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0147]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman standing in the center of where a building once stood and is now reduced to twisted, smoking metal and brick. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Smoking rubble is all that remains after a $50,000 fire leveled the Randall Sharpe Contracting Co. warehouse, shop and offices 2 1/2 miles north of Britton Tuesday afternoon."
Date: January 7, 1958
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0410]

Description: A nighttime photograph taken at the Hudson Hotel at 331 West Sheridan Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows a sheet rope hangling from a window, designed to escape a fire. Wax pencil editorial notes and marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Unused, as it turned out, emergency rope of sheets dangles from window at the Hudson Hotel, 331 W Sheridan, where 51 persons were evacuated safely during a 3 a. m. fire today."
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0213

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0215

Description: Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0412

Description: Night time fire engine ladder to upper story of burning builidng. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Some hotel guests escaped on fire department ladder units."
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0411

Description: Photograph of firefighters investigating charred ruins of a building interior. Caption: "Firemen examine the charred remnants of some 70-year-old court records which burned Wednesday at the Oklahoma County Courthouse."
Date: January 9, 1974
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0152]

Description: A daylight photograph of a structure fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows four men with fire hoses near the smoking ruins of the Randall Sharpe Contracting Company complex. Some brown discoloration is visible on the photograph. Caption: "Smoking Rubble is all that remains after a $50,000 fire leveled the Randall Sharpe Contracting Co., warehouse, shop and offices."
Date: January 7, 1958
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0146]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the results of a grass fire in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Here Oklahoma City resident L. C. McNeilly uses a garden hose to water the smoldering remains of his garage at 1620 Northwest Fiftieth Street. Caption: "L. C. McNeilly, 1620 NW 50, turns a garden hose stream of water on what remains of their garage after the wide spread grass fire Friday afternoon."
Date: January 27, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adam
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0453

Description: Fire hose putting out hot spots of night time fire at Rexall Drugs. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of five stores destroyed early Monday on Maud main street was a complete loss in wind-fed blaze that started in next-door cafe."
Date: January 31, 1965
Creator: Garner, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0393]

Description: Photograph is of a structure burning to the ground completely engulfed in flames and smoke. Debris is surrounding the structure as it burns. Caption: "Nobody will park between signs at a time like this."
Date: January 14, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0314

Description: Photograph of firefighters driving water from a hallway using shovels and squeegees. Caption: "A fireman cleans up water pumped into the Mark Twain Elementary School"
Date: January 3, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0214

Description: Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0230

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighter extinguishing a burning structure with a fire hose. Caption: "Firemen hose down what may have been the largest peanut roast in history at a warehouse in Calvin."
Date: January 9, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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