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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0055]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning, twisted wreckage of oil-filled railroad tank cars after a derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0050]

Description: A daylight photograph showing damage at the Shattuck Grain Company elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. The damage was caused by explosions after a train derailment involving oil-filled tank cars. Caption: "The wreck occurred near the elevator of the Shattuck Grain Co. shown in one photograph."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0049]

Description: Photograph is of twisted metal with train cars wrecked, smashed, and still smoking in the background. A small group of people are surveying the damage near the pile of wrecked train cars. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0295]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cattle Train Wrecked-- A number of cattle headed for Kansas City were killed in a Thursday night wreck at Fargo, Ellis county, when a Santa Fe freight was wrecked in front of the depot."
Date: April 8, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0057]

Description: A daylight photograph showing smoking, twisted debris after oil-filled railroad tank cars derailed and exploded near the grain elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1147]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Eggs are about to become big business in Ellis county thanks to the efforts of Charles and Wendell Chesnut to interest farmers and ranchers in a caged egg production program."
Date: January 28, 1954
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0294]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Loss of Cattle Heavy as Fargo Wreck Piles Cars Around Station-- An estimated 100 head of cattle were killed when nine cars of 125-car Santa Fe train jumped the track and pile up in front of the railroad station late Thursday at Fargo."
Date: April 7, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0048]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of an explosion involving oil-filled railroad tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The image shows damaged telephone poles and a destroyed building near the local grain elevator. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0059]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a freight train derailment at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The wreck caused several gas filled tank cars to explode, resulting in damage to the community. Caption: "A broken coupling device on a 142-car freight train was blamed late Tuesday for a spectacular derailment which piled up 31 gas filled tank cars and touched off a series of explosions that rattled this Ellis County community with six damaging shock waves."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0058]

Description: A daylight photograph of a railroad tank car wrapped in debris caused by the derailment and explosion of oil-filled tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0056]

Description: Photograph is of a wooden building where part of the roof has collapsed. Heavy dark smoke is rising behind the structure. Two men are on a electrical poll near where the smoke is rising.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0047]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning wreckage of oil-filled tank cars after a railroad derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0051]

Description: Photograph is of the oval cylinder metal hauling container for gasoline in the front yard of a small wooden structure home. the tank is black and still smoking from a fire. Caption: "a holiday in Shattuck early Tuesday morning when a Santa Fe Freight train hauling propane and gasoline derailed and exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0410]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss Rita Woods was chosen Shattuck delegate in district competition for a new trip to New York to the United Nations, sponsored by the Odd Fellows."
Date: March 4, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0595]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shattuck's Future Homemakers are holding open house to show the residents of the area their new cottage, recently completed on the school campus."
Date: February 17, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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