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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0374]

Description: Photograph three unidentified men walk through a field near a line of fire in the field. Smoke is rising next to where they are walking. one man is holding a coat and wearing a hat while the man behind him appears to be in a firemen's uniform. Caption: "High winds Tuesday afternoon fanned a grass fire at the Little Axe community east of here into a raging prairie blaze covering approximately two square miles."
Date: March 13, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0518

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of two women standing next to display in storefront window. Caption: "In front of the Mountain Park garage where Saturday auctions have been held to raise money for the school, Mrs. Elzie Noble, left, and Mrs. Henry Dotson, admire the quilt contributed by eight ladies of the community for the last sale."
Date: March 5, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0254]

Description: An interior photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "[Charred waste] of insulating materials litters floor of Myriad Convention Center's exhibit hall after a Thursday morning fire."
Date: March 9, 1972
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0097

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people viewing destruction inside a building gutted by fire. Caption: "This is what the Shawnee highschool looked like to one student after fire gutted the 39-year-old structure early Saturday morning."
Date: March 28, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0377

Description: Daylight photograph of a grass fire along an unidentified Oklahoma roadway. The image shows grass blackened by fire as flames advance toward underbrush. No caption.
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0170

Description: Photograph taken at night of unidentified crowd viewing a building engulfed in a raging mass of flames. Caption: "Razed in a spectacular fire was this Greenville school, four miles north of Marietta on U.S 77 in a blaze which occurred just as the frame gymnasium and lunchroom were destroyed at a loss of $50,000."
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: Alexander, Chick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 66.0265]

Description: Photograph displays three firemen handling a firehose with a roaring fire consuming a metal building in the background. One of the firemen has his back turned to the camera, showing "GOMEZ OCFD" Caption: "Firemen set up another hose to battle the Monday morning Public Supply warehouse blaze, which destroyed the building and contents."
Date: March 28, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0479

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of wreckage destroyed by fire. Caption: "Only charred ruins remained Tuesday at the Herbert Caldwell home, NE 41 and Windsor Road, where three Caldwell children were burned to death Monday night."
Date: March 13, 1962
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0457

Description: Group of men helping with fire, burned trucks, cars and semi in daytime image. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A cleanup crew (above) went to work late Monday to clear away the debris left by gasoline fire that destroyed a garage, filling station and a fuel truck at Mcloud."
Date: March 7, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0447

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling next to fire-damaged chair outside of a house. Caption: "Larry Like, 12, of 904 SE 68, inspects fire damaged home at 808 SE 69."
Date: March 2, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0300]

Description: Photograph is of a man looking with a flashlight into the interior of a automobile that is charred from a previous fire. Burnt debris and rubble surround the car and the man's feet. Caption: "Ruins of a once sparkling new automobile are probed by E. G. Wintermute, El Reno secretary-treasurer of Samples Buick Co, which was gutted by a $50,000 fire Saturday."
Date: March 24, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0321]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman crouched behind a metal rail spraying an open fire hose on a smoldering hole in a multiple story brick building. Many burnt bricks are strewn across the open area between the fireman and the remaining damaged building. Caption: "Thousands or persons dressed in their Sunday best watched Sunday while fire destroyed a brick building which housed Enid's largest theater and caused heavy damage to an adjacent law office."
Date: March 9, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0010]

Description: A daylight photograph of a brush fire along a wooded fence line in rural Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Flames race through a wooded area of northeast Oklahoma County in one of the largest grass and timber fires here this year."
Date: March 18, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0284

Description: Covered fire hydrant with burned ruins in background. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mystified investigators visited the scene today in an effort to learn why water was not available to this covered fire hydrant."
Date: March 14, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0523]

Description: A daylight photograph showing a man and two boys amidst the ruins of a house destroyed by fire. Caption: "Fire place and concrete walls are all that remain of the contemporary home of architect John R. Turnbull, at Nicoma Park."
Date: March 27, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0098

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of brick building engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "Flames that destroyed the main section of the Shawnee High School building early Saturday morning were curbed after three hours."
Date: March 28, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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