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BASEMENT BOX 67.0438

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men surveying an oil well. Caption: "Oklahoma's second oil well fire within a week continued to burn wildly 10 miles east of Madill Saturday, sending an orange flame towering 50 feet into the air."
Date: August 23, 1964
Creator: Garner, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0440

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of flames and smoke billowing from a burning structure. Caption: "This blazing oil well caused damage estimated at $270,000 as it burned out on the banks of Lake Texoma near Willis Tuesday."
Date: April 23, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0531

Description: Photograph taken of charred remains of a building. Caption: "Fire blackened window outlines the charred ruins of Field's Restaurant in Pauls Valley which was heavily damaged Thursday."
Date: June 23, 1967
Creator: Wood, Tony
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0649]

Description: Photograph of two firemen in the forefront, one with a flashlight pointed to the ceiling the other holding a firehose, investigating a burnt hole in the ceiling of the interior of a building. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NO HOLIDAY GREETINGS will pass over Louie's 700 Club bar, a mile south of Norman on U.S. 77 this season."
Date: December 23, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0286]

Description: Photograph is of groups of people standing outside of a single story brick building while smoke rises from roof. Firemen are standing on top of the building spraying hoses into the building and on the remaining roof. Caption: "LOSS WAS ESTIMATED AT $200,000 in this fire Sunday, which destroyed the Lindley hospital, the largest hospital in Duncan. Firemen evacuated 25 patients, including many children, before starting their fight on the fast spreading flames."
Date: December 23, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0437

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of an oil well on fire. Caption: "Flames shoot more than 50 feet up a 140-foot-high drilling rig Saturday near Madill as Joe Cawdell, Ardmore, district superintendent for Pure Oil Co."
Date: August 23, 1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0107

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of roof of building caved in after a fire. Caption: "The Shawnee Peanut Mill, one of the largest industries in Pottawatomie county, is shown through a bird's-eye view after flames caused damage estimated at $100,000 Friday morning."
Date: August 23, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0261

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of charred and smoldering wreckage after a structural fire. Caption: "Charred water buckets, used in the bathtub while a new well was being drilled, give mute testimony to the fury of a fire that destroyed Mrs. Frances Hodge's home and fatally burned her at Colbert Wednesday. The 63-year-old victim's mother, Mrs. Annie Bond, 92, was hurt while dragging Mrs. Hodge outdoors in a vain attempt to save her."
Date: December 23, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0158]

Description: A daylight photograph of the Magnolia Pipeline Company's pumping station near Addington in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, and Comanche in Stephens County, Oklahoma. The structure is engulfed in fire and smoke, the cause of which was unknown. Editing notes and marks are visible on the image. Caption: "A fire of undetermined origin wrecked the Magnolia Pipeline Co.'s Addington pumping station near Comanche Tuesday with loss estimates running as high as $1 million."
Date: May 23, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0632]

Description: Photograph of an burning oil tanker on a highway, used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. An unidentified man is on the right of the image, watching the fire. There are crop marks near the top and bottom of the photo. Caption: "A spectacular blaze, which consumed 3,024 gallons of crude oil and damaged a new trailer truck, tied up traffic for more than two hours Tuesday on the Guthrie cut-off near Bradbury corners."
Date: 1949-03-23~
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0605]

Description: Photograph is of a field fire viewed through a tree as the fire moved forward across the land. The photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Flames burst from burning weeds and grass in a field east of Lawton as the leasee of part of the Indian lands worked to clear the area."
Date: January 23, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0208]

Description: A daylight photograph of individuals and their belongings after being displaced by a public housing fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "$20,000 fire made it necessary to arrange for other sleeping quarters for five families in the Hamilton Courts Public Housing Projects."
Date: March 23, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0091]

Description: Photograph is of a group of men standing on brick rubble surveying the damage to a building on the main street. One man is holding a fire hose. The roof and walls have collapsed into the interior of the structure. Caption: "Loss estimated at $100,000 resulted early Thursday when flames swept half a block of El Reno's main shopping section."
Date: December 23, 1943
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0073

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of men with heavy machinery and water. Caption: "Faced these fire-fighters Monday at the five-day-old blazing gas well near Lindsay."
Date: August 23, 1965
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0231]

Description: A photograph taken inside a fire damaged home at 1407 Southwest 28th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows destroyed appliances and debris in the kitchen belonging to Betty Shults. Caption: "Fire damage to the kitchen and other parts of the home of Betty Shults, 1407 SW 28 amounted to $4,500, fire officials said today."
Date: October 23, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0514]

Description: A daylight photograph showing a gas well fire near Mooreland in Woodward County, Oklahoma, being combated by firefighter Red Adair. Orange wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "SPEWING GAS WELL near Mooreland continued to burn out of control Thursday despite attempts by firefighter Red Adair to curb the blazing well which has been burning since earlier this month."
Date: November 23, 1973
Creator: Bergdall, Calvin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0318

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters working to extinguish a brick structure fire. Caption: "Firemen extinguish the last spark of an early morning blaze which caused some damage to a garage"
Date: October 23, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
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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