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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0602]

Description: Photograph shows seven unidentified men and five children observing and working around a structure that smoke is rising from the roof. Flames are coming out the top of the building as well. There is a ladder in the forefront of the image indicating that someone tried to assess the situation from a ladder on the roof. This photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Fireman effort is futile as the Tonkawa Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment burns."
Date: December 22, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0077]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "View of the new and modern control laboratory recently completed in Continental Oil Company's Ponca City refinery, showing several women "on the job" following their graduation from the special training course."
Date: March 30, 1943
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0075]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An aerial view of Conoco's new R&D (research and development) West building at its Ponca City refining and research complex shows the foreground parking area into which a new administrative wing, now under construction, will extend."
Date: 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0073]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The largest independent oil refinery west of the Mississippi river is that of the Continental Oil company plant at Ponca City, and connected there with is also the largest storage tank farm in Oklahoma."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0366]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Construction is under way east of Ponca City on the Sandy Park swimming beach on the east end of the Kaw Dam on the Arkansas River`"
Date: 1978
Creator: Casto, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0088]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A part of the vast Conoco refinery forms the background for these tennis courts situated between the gymnasium (left) and the outdoor athletic field."
Date: 1940
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0076]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ponca City Dec. 16th. (Special) - While a crowd of more than 5,000 persons looked on, Santa Claus spent a bury evening presenting bonus checks totaling more than $200,000 to about 1,700 Continental Oil Co. employees in front of the gaily decorated home office building here Wednesday night."
Date: 1937
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0093]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NEW CONCEPT in service station construction, combining regional styling with flexibility in design, is being developed by Continental Oil Co."
Date: 1968
Creator: Bailey, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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