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BASEMENT BOX 67.0366

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a crowd viewing a building fire. Caption: "The Frederick Grain & Seed Co. elevator. C. S. Worsham, manager, said damage will amount to $80,000."
Date: April 29, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0211

Description: Photograph taken at night of a firefighter standing next to a burning building. Caption: "This is what Blackwell firemen found when they arrived at the scene of the disastrous fire here Saturday night"
Date: April 6, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0440

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of flames and smoke billowing from a burning structure. Caption: "This blazing oil well caused damage estimated at $270,000 as it burned out on the banks of Lake Texoma near Willis Tuesday."
Date: April 23, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BOX 67.0397]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen controlling a fire hose that is spraying on a structure completely engulfed in flames from the inside and through the roof. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Are believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."
Date: April 12, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0398]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen holding a hose spraying in the distance while a structure is completely encompassed in flames and smoke in the background. Caption: "Arson believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."
Date: April 12, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0229]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a hotel fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows fire department personnel using a high pressure water hose and a shovel crane to extinguish hot spots in the debris. A barricade, traffic light, and street signs are in the scene, and black and green wax pencil editorial marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Crane finishes off fire-ravaged hotel."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0594]

Description: Photograph of the destroyed front of Foster Department Store. Part of the brick wall of the structure has collapsed in to the street. The roof and all the inside of the building has been consumed by fire and destroyed. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: April 18, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0614]

Description: Photograph is of main street in Synder, OK. A fire has consumed three businesses on the main street that were next to each other. The rubble is in the street. A man helps guide a fire hose through the buildings. Smoke is raising out of the center of one of the buildings. This photograph was taken during the day time.
Date: April 27, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0313]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman on top of the open ladder off the fire pump truck spraying an open hose onto the roof of a burning brick building. Smoke is billowing out of the roof of the building. Two other firemen are holding hoses that are spraying into the broken windows into the multiple story structure from the ground.
Date: April 16, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0276]

Description: A daylight photograph of a two-alarm fire at a plumbing supply warehouse in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows a fireman with water hoses near the engulfed structure and under burning electrical wires. Red and green wax pencil editing marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "Flames engulf south end of plumbing warehouse during two-alarm fire."
Date: April 3, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0417

Description: Daytime smoldering fire with 3 persons present, Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flames surge from pile of loading platforms into a downtown racing-car parts plant."
Date: April 3, 1974
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0315

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Date: April 15, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0592

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters spraying water at a building fire. Caption: "A blaze that devestated downtown Woodward was finally brought under control Monday afternoon after destroying two department stores and two lodge halls and damaging four other stores."
Date: April 18, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0445

Description: Daytime aftermath of fire as fire fighters and a group of bystanders view the rubble and burned out automobile. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 17, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0096

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of four men standing in the wreckage of a building that burned. Caption: "Monday's noon sun beamed in on the fire-gutted Regath drugstore at Chandler after a $100,000 fire destroyed it, a variety store next door on the north and the entire second story of both buildings, which housed two businesses and two apartments."
Date: April 14, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0236]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Rex Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows a shovel crane being used to prevent the fire from spreading to a neighboring structure. Caption: "Flames possibly started by transient squatters destroyed the Rex Hotel building, 330 W Sheridan, early today as firemen fought to protect an adjoining business where cleaning solvent was stored."
Date: April 5, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0433

Description: Photograph taken during a daylight of smoke billowing from of a burning structure. Caption: "Consumed by flames is this oil well servicing truck located near the Quintin Little No. 1 oil well which burned about 6 hours Tuesday on the shore of lake Texhoma near Willis."
Date: April 24, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0607]

Description: Photograph of fire damage to the main street in Synder, OK. This is an aerial shot of the main street showing the three conjoined buildings that were damaged. Three unidentified men are together in the middle of the street. Many fire hoses are in the street as well. Smoke is still rising from the burnt shell of the building remains.
Date: April 26, 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0424

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a firefighter emerging from a hole in a roof. Caption: "From the smoke and heat of a fire in a Hamilton Courts apartment unit, a fireman checks the roof for sparks."
Date: April 15, 1974
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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