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[Photograph 2012.201.B0304.0089]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Right is John Dethloff, who tried to farm the valley and its slopes for 30 years with a bare living, bought his farm with three-fourths of the royalty withheld."
Date: January 12, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0392.0365]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coach" H. W. McNeil, adviser to Gov. Turner, had to get a little coaching himself when it came diapering time for his first baby. While pappa handles another tough problem via phone, little daughter, Hope, not quite three months old, listens with a critical air and holds her telephone ready to correct any rash statements that might slip out."
Date: January 13, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0334.0352]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This 55-gallon steel drum was the bomb casing that held the explosive punch. (M. M. Kinley and Paul Adair, Houston firemen, are at either end, Harold Drilling, Elk City welder, kneeling)"
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1922]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Elk city's spectacular oil well fire was still blazing Sunday after it was blown out once by explosives and then re-ignited almost immediately. Myron M. Kinley, famed Houston oil well firefighter, and his crew of men will make another attempt to extinguish the blaze Monday. Sunday's attempt was the climax of a major-four-day engineering project under Kinley's direction before the fire was snuffed out of time. In the … more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1926]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The jumble of metal at right was once worth many thousands of dollars. It was oil well drilling machine before the Shell well caught fire. The flames quickly reduced it to tangled junk. Crews managed to hook cables to this and pull it out. Here, the wreckage is surveyed by J. H. Carmichael, 52 1/2 SW 24, and Herman Awes, Tulsa, superintendents for Heimerich and Payne, Inc., the drilling contractors on the lease."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1917]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The stormy on-again, off-again Elk City well fire was off again early Moday morning and grimy fire-fighters after nearly a week of battling the rebellious flames conceded with relief "this is it." Picture above shows the burned out crater of the well after the flames died out."
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1916]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These flames are 100 feet or more behind M.M. Kinley and Paul Adair, the Houston fire fighters called in to combat the blaze. It is plenty hot at this spot. The bulldozer was used to shove up earthen embankments as close to the fire as it could possibly get. These offered some protection, just as did the improvised metal shield behind which the men are standing in the picture on Page 1, but it was dangerous and uncomfort… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1920]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The fire's out at Elk City. And Tuesday afternoon, two drilling firm emplyesrowed out on the crater lake to the well head to take a close look. Looking into the casing is L. M. Wall, Elk City. The man with the oar is L. C. Ritchie, who lives southeast of Oklahoma City on SE 29."
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1921]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "That dark mound in the right center of the picture probably was the villain of the re-ignition story. It was the traveling block, the pulley-like mechanism that moved up and down at the end of cable and supported the drilling tools, the easing, etc. It couldn't be pulled out of the crater because most of the time it was enveloped in flame. Photographer Owen got this shot at a moment when a vagrant breeze whipped the blaz… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1932]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This was the crucial disappointing moment last Sunday morning when the Shell Oil fire near Elk City was out-but wouldn't stay. Note the light cloud of smoke at the extreme right. That is smoke, steam and vapor from the original blaze. It hung close by during the four-minute interval in which the flames were extinguished after the big nitro puff. The darker cloud in the center is greasy smoke from the smoldering debris i… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1913]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ever blow the flame off a burning match? Well, here's what was supposed to be a garagantuan puff, 200 pounds of nitroglycerine, to blow the flame off og nature's brilliant torch that had lighted the Elk City oil field Tuesday night until Monday morning. The "nitro" is in the water-cooled drum at the end of the boom just as workmen edged it toward the flame in a rehearsal for a second try Monday before the blaze exting… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1919]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In the photo below the stubborn fire, still being fed a stream of water, makes it final, dying gasp a few minutes before 7 a.m. Monday."
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0277.0419]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gene Hancock, left, calls a strategy meeting of the "No Name Oil Co." in his feed store with E. A. Bomar wholesale grocer; O. H. Lachenmeyer, newspaper publisher and Hugh Abercrombie, implement dealer."
Date: January 12, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1918]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The stormy on-again, off-again Elk City well fire was off again early Moday morning and grimy fire-fighters after nearly a week of battling the rebellious flames conceded with relief "this is it." Picture above shows the burned out crater of the well after the flames died out."
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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