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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0246]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the damage caused by a fire at the Cotton Compress Company warehouse in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma. A crowd watches as men use fire hoses to water the smoldering debris. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "COMPRESS DAMAGE IS SET AT $500,000 A 45-mile-an-hour wind Sunday fanned a blaze from papers under a loading dock into the Cotton Compress Co. warehouse, destroying about $500,000 worth of cotton and facilities."
Date: March 27, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1342.0209]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The third generation of von Tungelns is competing for ribbons at the Oklahoma State Fair in the livestock division."
Date: September 27, 1955
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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