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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0294]

Description: Photograph is of a brick building with smoke rising from the roof. A fire truck is parked in front of the building with fire hoses on the ground leading away from the truck. Two unidentified firemen are directly in front of the building. one is walking towards a ladder leaned on the brick building while the other is spraying a fire hose in the front door of the building. The photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Bokchito School in Durant"
Date: December 6, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0295

Description: Photograph taken at night of smoke billowing from a building fire. Firemen with a fire truck and hoses work to extinguish the fire. Caption: "Bokchito School fire, John McCoy."
Date: December 6, 1966
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0130]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "as the artist sees the new half-million-dollar toy factory to be built in Durant by the Strombecker corp. of Chicago, America's oldest toy manufacturer."
Date: December 10, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0272]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Five Americans, who started from Southeastern State College, Durant, and have reached Hollywood are Mike Rabon and Jim Grant, of Hugo; Jimmy Wright, Durant, Norman Ezell, Albuquerque, N. M., and John Durrell, Bartlesville."
Date: December 9, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0104]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Assembly line construction speeds up the building of dump truck bodies, but it was the locally designed jigs and fixtures which make the work faster and smoother than even at the 55-year-old parent plant in Galion, Ohio."
Date: December 5, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0014]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The second padlock within a week was on the Fisherman's club near Cartwright as Bryan County sheriff Raney Arnold, right, and deputy Joe Franklin carried out a court order closing down the allegedly notorious nightclub. The club was first padlocked last Sunday following an early morning raid. The second came late last week and climaxed a three day court of inquiry into liquor and gambling conditions in the Lake Texoma area… more
Date: December 8, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0322]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Brain Buzzed in profusion here Wednesday as Oklahoma selection committeemen sought to choose two Rhodes scholarship regional contestants."
Date: December 18, 1957
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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