2,688 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0329]

Description: Photograph is of a wooden dormitory building that has flames and smoke quickly rising from the roof. Flames are shooting out the window openings many feet high. Photograph was taken int he day time. Caption: "Going up in smoke is the main building of the historical Indian Boarding School for Girls at Eufaula. Fire gutted the 70 year old structure about noon Friday. Mrs. Toru Herndon, school Superintendent, said damage will amount to several thousand dollars. Also destroyed in the fire were Chri… more
Date: December 21, 1962
Creator: Parkhurst, Dean
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0169

Description: Photograph taken during evening hours of three men inspecting an explosives truck after a fire. Caption: "Looking at dynamite compartment of truck that suddenly burst into flames near Ringling are driver Clinton Carline and Capt. Clarence C. Greenhill and Sgt. Doyle Nichols of Fort Sill."
Date: November 21, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0302.0181]

Description: One man showing another man how to test olives in a barrel with a device used to remove olives from a small hole in the side of the barrel. Photo was taken during the day. Caption: "Olive tester Bill Brandt, left, San Leandro, Calif., shows Charlie Williams how to use a "tryer" in getting olives out of barrels to check them."
Date: February 11, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0500]

Description: Interior photograph of Midwest City Bowling Lanes after a fire. The image shows Midwest City fireman Lt. Don Cornwell holding a soot-covered bowling ball. Caption: "BLACKENED BOWLING BALLS, part of the $200,000 ruins of the Midwest City Bowling Lanes, 1415 S. Midwest Blvd., are held by Lt. Don Cornwell of Midwest City Fire Department."
Date: February 17, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0601]

Description: Photograph shows flames consuming the roof of an aluminum rounded roof building. Smoke and flames are spilling out of the top of the building from all doorways, edges and windows. A fire truck is in the foreground of the photograph. No person is present in the image. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Fireman try in vain to curb McAlester surplus store blaze that Thursday caused extensive damage."
Date: January 26, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0419

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters and unidentified man managing a hotel building fire. Caption: "Lawton firemen work their way into hotel where four died early Sunday."
Date: December 8, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 2012.201.67.0499]

Description: An interior photograph of Midwest City Bowling Lanes after a fire. The image shows Midwest City fireman Lt. Don Cornwell holding a soot-covered bowling ball. Lieutenant Cornwell is kneeling beside a rack of bowling balls near two destroyed pinball machines. Orange wax pencil marks are visible on the photograph's top and right border. Caption: "BLACKENED BOWLING BALLS, part of the $200,000 ruins of the Midwest City Bowling Lanes, 1415 S. Midwest Blvd., are held by Lt. Don Cornwell of Midwest Cit… more
Date: February 17, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0417.0305]

Description: Photograph is of a man in a military policeman uniform resting his hands on 5 helmets on a table with a rag in his left hand as if polishing them. Caption: "Armed Forces Day visitors at Tinker Air Force Base will be guided to parking lots Saturday by military policemen of the Oklahoma National Guard's 45th Infantry Division. Here the 45th's provost marshal, Maj. Lon Fink, 2534 SW 58, inspects his men's sparking helmets."
Date: May 17, 1962
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0545]

Description: A nighttime photograph showing Ponca City firemen and a fire engine as smoke billows from the Walker Walgreen Drug store, situated next to T.G.& Y. in the Pioneer Shopping Center.
Date: January 17, 1962
Creator: Casto, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Charles Freeman and Two UNIDENTIFIED State Game and Fish Dept. Technicians Checking a Net In a Fishpond

Description: Photograph of Charles Freeman and two UNIDENTIFIED State Game and Fish Dept. technicians checking their fish net to check size, kind, and number of fish in this fishpond. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Charles Freeman paddling boat for State Game and Fish Dept. technicians who are checking their net used to trap fish for purpose of determining kind, size and number of fish in large stockwater pond on their ranch.”
Date: May 10, 1962
Creator: Tarrant, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Proper Range Use on the Honey Creek Ranch

Description: Photograph of four heads of cattle on a properly used range consisting of big bluestem grass, little bluestem grass, switch grass, and Indiangrass. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Proper range use. Big bluestem, switch grass, Indian grass and little bluestem grass.”
Date: July 31, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen