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BASEMENT BOX 67.0547

Description: Ponca City furniture store night time fire with fireman in "cherry picker" dowsing the fire from on high. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fireman fights raging downtown Ponca City blaze from high perch Wednesday night as he directs stream of water into blazing furniture store and clothing store."
Date: November 21, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"I Want You All to Come": John C. Walton and America's Greatest Barbecue

Description: Article describes the massive event that was Governor John C. Walton's inaugural celebration, a barbecue and square dance at the state fairgrounds. William Warren Rogers discusses the organization of the event, what it offered the public, and the people groups who showed up to accept Walton's encompassing invitation.
Date: Spring 1997
Creator: Rogers, William Warren
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Klanspiracy" or Despotism?: The Rise and fall of Governor Jack Walton, featuring W. D. McBee

Description: Article details the life and political career of Oklahoma governor John C. "Jack" Walton. Brad L. Duren discusses the factors that led to his impeachment, including his frequent clashes with the Ku Klux Klan, despotic political actions, and conflict with his biggest critic on the Oklahoma state legislature, W. D. McBee.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Duren, Brad L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Senator Thomas P. Gore

Description: Article provides a biographical breakdown of the life and career of Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma. Monroe Billington discusses his evolution as a politician, from his early radical Populist beliefs to his ultra-conservative later years.
Date: Autumn 1957
Creator: Billington, Monroe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Honorable Thomas P. Gore: The Blind Senator

Description: Article describes the life and career of Oklahoma's blind Senator, Thomas P. Gore. Monroe Billington illustrates Gore's upbringing, the injury that resulted in blindness, his marriage and family, politics, and speech delivery.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Billington, Monroe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Governor Walton's War on the Ku Klux Klan: An Episode in Oklahoma History

Description: Article investigate the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma and the career of Governor John Calloway Walton. Sheldon Neuringer discusses Walton's alliance with the Farmer-Labor Reconstruction League, how Walton instituted martial law to combat the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, and Walton's eventual impeachment.
Date: Summer 1967
Creator: Neuringer, Sheldon
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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