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BASEMENT BOX 67.0096

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of four men standing in the wreckage of a building that burned. Caption: "Monday's noon sun beamed in on the fire-gutted Regath drugstore at Chandler after a $100,000 fire destroyed it, a variety store next door on the north and the entire second story of both buildings, which housed two businesses and two apartments."
Date: April 14, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0376]

Description: A daylight photograph of underbrush burning in a Lincoln County, Oklahoma, grass fire. Caption: "Thickets went up in flames before the Lincoln County fire were under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0644]

Description: Photograph shows a truck driving down a dirt road with a man riding in the bed of the truck. The truck is driving towards a grey cloud of smoke. The fields on either side of the road are burnt. Caption: "The fire was first spotted about 9 a.m., and it wasn't until 3 p.m. that it was brought under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0243]

Description: A daylight photograph of a wild fire near Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows Fire Captain Joe Hoover using a pressurized water hose to stop the blaze from spreading. Red and black wax pencil marks are visible on the photograph. Caption: "UNDERBRUSH FIRE swept within a block of Chandler's northwest city limits Wednesday before it was halted by a firebreak and water from Chandler's rural fire truck. Capt. Joe Hoover, below, sprays water to halt the advance of the fire set by sp… more
Date: December 4, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0244]

Description: A daylight photograph of a grass fire near Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Farmer Robert E. Hicks watches as Henry McCoy uses a tractor to create a firebreak along Hicks's fence line. Red and black wax pencil marks are visible on the image. Caption: "FIRE SWEPT to within a block of Chandler's northwest city limits Wednesday before it was halted by a firebreak and water from Chandler's rural fire truck. Henry McCoy operated a tractor and blade to cut a firebreak at the edge of blackjack ti… more
Date: December 4, 1969
Creator: Jackson, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0371]

Description: A daylight photograph of a grass fire in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, showing the smoke and flames of burning grass and underbrush along the Turner Turnpike near Stroud. Caption: "Grass fire rage along south side of Turner Turnpike, near Stroud, delaying traffic for awhile."
Date: March 28, 1963
Creator: Composing
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0430

Description: Fire burning at tonight behind house. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flames brighten the sky above the Lincoln County courthouse which burned Saturday night in a spectacular blaze that destroyed public records and threatened a new courthouse annex (foreground). Lt. J. P. Smith, army officer in Chandler on leave, shot this picture."
Date: December 24, 1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0242]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a business fire at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows volunteer fireman Wayne Hart spraying water onto the burning C & G Grocery store from the roof of a neighboring building. Caption: "PLAYING WATER on the smoking ruins of the C & G Grocery in Chandler early Tuesday morning is Wayne Hart, a volunteer in the Chandler fire department who is working from the roof of an adjoining building."
Date: November 15, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0241]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a fire in the downtown business district at Chandler in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The image shows citizens and firemen using hoses in a failed attempt to save the C & G Grocery & Market from burning. Caption: "TO NO AVAIL, Chandler Firemen work to extinguish a blaze on Main street there . The early-morning fire at C & G Grocery destroyed the structure and caused extensive smoke damage to three adjoining business places."
Date: November 15, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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