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BASEMENT BOX 67.0211

Description: Photograph taken at night of a firefighter standing next to a burning building. Caption: "This is what Blackwell firemen found when they arrived at the scene of the disastrous fire here Saturday night"
Date: April 6, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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

BASEMENT BOX 67.0580

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a building in flames. Caption: "Fireballs visible in center and left of this photo were caused by exploding oxygen tanks in the shop building of Tonkawa Welding Works, Tonkawa, which was completely destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon."
Date: May 10, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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 67.0206

Description: Photograph of buildings engulfed in a fiery blaze. People stand nearby apparently attempting to manage the fire. Caption: "The storage house and elevator equipment was destroyed"
Date: January 15, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0079

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of grain elevators in a blaze of fire and black smoke. Caption: "Fire Thursday did $100,000 damage to the elevator of the Blackwell Mill and Elevator Co. in Blackwell."
Date: January 26, 1940
Creator: Teter, Cloyd
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0209

Description: Photograph taken at night of crowd watching as firefighters work to extinguish a burning building. building burns. Caption: "Fire at its height in the Oklahoma Tire and Supply building before it spread to the Security Bank Building"
Date: April 6, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0207

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Giant cranes collapse the wall around Blackwell's Security Bank building which was ruined by Saturday night's fire"
Date: April 6, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0543]

Description: Photograph is of a building engulfed in flames. The silhouette of two men are visible near the building. The roof is gone and all the windows. Burnt debris is around the building. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Firemen brave frigid blasts to fight Ponca blaze."
Date: January 24, 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0579

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firemen spraying water at a building on fire. Caption: "Gas generators and a vault are all that remained standing after flames swept through Tonkawa Welding Works shop Wednesday."
Date: May 12, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0546]

Description: Photograph is of a pump truck with the ladder fully extended to the side with a fireman on the top shooting water on a building fully engulfed in flames. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Fire roars as fireman on top the ladder shoots the water to it."
Date: May 12, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0521

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of buildings on fire. A crowd of unidentified people watch as firemen spray water on the buildings. Caption: "Smoke pours from the Klofkorn furniture store building which was destroyed by a $50,000 fire at Newkirk Saturday."
Date: March 28, 1955
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

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0608]

Description: Photograph is of a crowd of men observing the mill and silo burning next to the water pump fire truck. On the picture is another picture of one of the buildings looking down at a group of men through the burned roof observing the fire destruction. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Flames eating at the roof of the Ponca City Milling Co. were brought under control late Thursday after an hours battle by Ponca City firemen aided by fire fighters of the Continental Oil Co. and Cities S… more
Date: October 31, 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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