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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0291]

Description: Photograph is of a large group of people in the street observing and helping to spray water from fire hoses on multiple buildings that are burning on a main street. Debris, rubble and water is in the street in front of the crowd.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0454

Description: Two burned out store fronts, night time. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The J. and J. Supermarket, left, and an unoccupied theater, right in left panel, in Maysville were gutted by a three - hour fire which was extinguished shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday. Damage was estimated at more than $25,000."
Date: September 24, 1953
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0290]

Description: Photograph is of a multiple story building that has smoke rising out of the where the roof once was. The windows are missing and the brick has burnt marks. A man is outside the building near a car by a fence.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0418.0339]

Description: Photograph two groups of firemen are spraying water from a hose on a single story wooden structure. There are a few men in dress clothes nearby surveying the damage. heavy smoke is rising from the eaves, roof, and windows of the structure. Caption: "Two hose teams of Oklahoma City firemen press close to the east side of Warr-Caston Lumber Co.'s sash and door."
Date: February 18, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0289]

Description: Photograph is of a group of unidentified people observing a fire of a multiple story brick storage building. Tires are strewn on the ground around the men observing the fire. A smaller group of men are holding a fire hose spraying on the top corner of the building. Smoke is rising from where the roof once existed. part of the walls have collapsed into the center of the structure.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0287]

Description: Photograph is a large group of people observing a burning brick building with smoke billowing from the top.Firemen are spraying hoses in the background on the building. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "DOWNTOWN DUNCAN was full of smoke and people Sunday as a $500,000 fire swept through a half block of business. This picture taken by Rollin Cox, an executive with Halliburton Oil Cementing Co., looks north at the unit block of North street from the busy intersection of Ninth and Mai… more
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0423.0194]

Description: Photograph is of a man in a button down shirt looking down at a baseball he holds in his hand. Caption: "The face below will be familiar to oldtime Indian fans. It is that of "Fitz", former catcher- manager here, who admires a painting of Injun president E. J. Humphries on a baseball."
Date: February 13, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0292]

Description: Photograph is of three groups of unidentified people each holding open fire hoses on a multiple level building that smoke is billowing out of the top. The buildings appear to be on a main street and the cafe is the closest seen in the photo that is completely consumed by smoke and missing a roof due to an active fire.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0366.0168]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Back in 1922, a 27-year-old veteran of World War I went to work for the veterans bureau sub-district office in Tulsa as chief of the administration division." Photograph is of an older man wearing a shirt and tie and glasses sitting at a desk folding a piece of paper while looking at the camera.
Date: May 29, 1953
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0394]

Description: Photograph is of a structure completely engulfed in flames and smoke. All that is visible is the side of the structure's wood siding. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Flames leap high from a blazing Holdenville apartment house Tuesday in which one person, Mrs. Minnie Hawkins, 65, died ."
Date: December 23, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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