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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0650]

Description: Photograph of the front of Shawnee High School with no windows or door and building behind the front facing brick has burned to the ground. There are over fifteen people visible in the photo viewing the remains of the building. The photo was taken in the day time. Caption: "Shawnee High School"
Date: March 27, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0290]

Description: A daytime photograph showing the charred remains of a residence destroyed by fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Firemen were unable to save the home due to a faulty water hydrant. Green wax pencil editorial marks are visible on the image.[Note the following caption does not correspond with the photograph as no hydrant is pictured.] Caption: "Mystified investigators today attempted to find why water to this hydrant, covered with a sack when firemen found it useless."
Date: March 14, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0335

Description: Photograph taken T night of flames emerging from a burning building. Caption: "Eufaula's blaze is shown during its height and afterward in which the historic Tully Building was destroyed."
Date: July 10, 1970
Creator: Parkhurst, Dean
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0336

Description: Photograph of three men in uniforms and hard hats investigating the interior of a fire-damaged building. Caption: "Firemen probe a burned wall behind the bookcase where a fire was set Wednesday in a U. S. Grant High School driver education classroom."
Date: August 1, 1973
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0572

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Charred ruins are all that remain of the boys' dormitory at the Oklahoma Children's Center."
Date: January 31, 1973
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0449

Description: Photograph taken indoors of two young men investigating charred debris. One boy is wearing a Kiwanis sash. Caption: "Mike Campbell, 11, left, and Darrold Soll, 10, were part of cleanup activities continuing Wednesday at the site of an apartment house blaze."
Date: February 1, 1967
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0409

Description: 3 Firefighters with shovels working on daytime fire, Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fort Sill GIs (left) fight fire while helicopter hovers over smoking mountain to help spot any new outbreaks."
Date: August 3, 1963
Creator: Garner, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0389]

Description: Photograph is of several unidentified men putting a fire out in the inside of a hay barn. The front doors are open and a fire pump truck is parked in front of the barn. Fire hoses are running along the ground to other parts of the building. Caption: "Burning trash which blew from the barrel in right foreground was blamed for starting a $25,000 hay fire on the Carl Jackson place two miles northwest of Seminole Sunday."
Date: January 14, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Burning Range Land

Description: Photograph of a rangeland that is on fire. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Burning range land in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma."
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Midwest City Fire

Description: Fire fighters with hose and man with electric circular saw cutting studs at day time fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. OHS note: photograph taken in Midwest City, OK.
Date: February 13, 1967
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Burning Range Land

Description: Photograph of a rangeland that is on fire. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Burning range land in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.”
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Burning Fence Post

Description: Photograph of a fencepost on fire. The weeds and brush behind the barbed wire fence was not burned off. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fence Post Burning. Fire in this large pasture destroyed grass, fences, and wildlife, but did not burn the weeds and brush."
Date: September 8, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0422

Description: Man looking over TV burned equipment and camera inside a studio, Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Cameras up in smoke. Emmett Keough, manager of Lawton radio-television station KSWO, stands between $25,000 worth of cameras which were damaged beyond use in a Sunday night fire in the studio four miles east of Lawton."
Date: December 17, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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