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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0259]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a structure that was destroyed by fire. There is metal rubble and burnt wood standing and strewn across the ground. Smoke is still lightly rising from the remains. Caption: "Still smoldering Thursday were ruins of the Chickasha Cotton Oil compress of Chickasha after fire late Wednesday night did damage estimated at $90,000."
Date: October 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0183]

Description: Plane crash near some trees and a creek. The plane is mostly intact with little damage. Photo taken in the daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "VACATION ENDED for members of the Ray Lynch family, 2115 NW 20, when their plane overshot the runway at Expressway Junction Airport, 3101 NE 63 and crashed in a creek bed Saturday noon. Mrs. Lynch received pulled pack muscles, but Lynch and their three children escaped injury. The family was ret… more
Date: July 20, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0600]

Description: Photograph of about twenty unidentified men observing two men, one clearly a fireman, on the roof of a building engulfed in smoke and flames. A fire hose is aiming water on the roof of the one story structure from a high height in the foreground right in the image. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: July 12, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0167

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building. People stand nearby. Caption: "Boiling smoke marks the scene of the Wetumka fire which caused damage to downtown businesses estimated at up to $300,000 Sunday."
Date: February 12, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0411.0119]

Description: Photograph is of a group of men dressed in formal naval uniforms in line formation and saluting as one man is standing directly in front of the camera holding a briefcase in one hand and saluting in the other. Caption: "and out of the U.S. Navy was Thomas Henry Farrar, senior chief hospitalman."
Date: January 10, 1963
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

2012.201.B0302.0008

Description: Photograph of two men in a performance. Caption: "Strawberries, two little steel balls, and back stage visits by psychiatrists are quietly making believers of those who see James Demopolos in the role of Captain Queeg at the Mummers Theater."
Date: April 3, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0237.0461]

Description: Photograph of a sheet of aluminum with small holes in it. Caption: "Pellet pocked storm door, owned by Lawrence Cook, 1315 SW 29, bears evidence of shotgun blast aimed at fleeing burglary suspect Wednesday."
Date: July 31, 1963
Creator: Frank, John E.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0406

Description: National Wildlife Refuge sign on fence. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A full-scale assault against the forces of nature was still underway Saturday in the Wichita Mountains, where nearly 2,000 fort sill soldiers carried a weary battle against fire into its third day."
Date: August 3, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0478

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing out of a burning building. Caption: "Smoke from blazing furniture store could be seen for miles."
Date: October 11, 1963
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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