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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0291]

Description: Photograph is of a large group of people in the street observing and helping to spray water from fire hoses on multiple buildings that are burning on a main street. Debris, rubble and water is in the street in front of the crowd.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0454

Description: Two burned out store fronts, night time. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The J. and J. Supermarket, left, and an unoccupied theater, right in left panel, in Maysville were gutted by a three - hour fire which was extinguished shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday. Damage was estimated at more than $25,000."
Date: September 24, 1953
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0290]

Description: Photograph is of a multiple story building that has smoke rising out of the where the roof once was. The windows are missing and the brick has burnt marks. A man is outside the building near a car by a fence.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0289]

Description: Photograph is of a group of unidentified people observing a fire of a multiple story brick storage building. Tires are strewn on the ground around the men observing the fire. A smaller group of men are holding a fire hose spraying on the top corner of the building. Smoke is rising from where the roof once existed. part of the walls have collapsed into the center of the structure.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0450

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a firetruck and people outside a smoldering building. Caption: "(The money type) was lost Monday morning in a fire that started in a box containing cans of floor wax cleaning fluid at the Pizza Inn."
Date: September 3, 1967
Creator: Derby, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0335

Description: Photograph taken at night of firefighters battling a smoking brick building fire with a ladder and fire hoses. Caption: "Firemen fight a blaze Monday night at the First United Methodist Church"
Date: September 17, 1973
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0423

Description: Four story Hotel, burned out, street view with fire trucks and fire fighters. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen pour water on the Midland hotel in Lawton Thursday after blaze broke out in the southwest portion of the building."
Date: September 14, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0148]

Description: Photograph is over the hood of a car of two firemen in front of a business helping each other put on equipment. Caption: "Two firemen from Nichols Hills and Village putting on gas mask to go into smoke."
Date: September 30, 1959
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0287]

Description: Photograph is a large group of people observing a burning brick building with smoke billowing from the top.Firemen are spraying hoses in the background on the building. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "DOWNTOWN DUNCAN was full of smoke and people Sunday as a $500,000 fire swept through a half block of business. This picture taken by Rollin Cox, an executive with Halliburton Oil Cementing Co., looks north at the unit block of North street from the busy intersection of Ninth and Mai… more
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0149]

Description: A daylight photograph showing emergency personnel and vehicles, including firemen and fire engines, at a shopping center fire in The Village. Businesses in the shopping center include the C.R. Anthony Company and Ashby's Sporting Goods. Blue and black wax pencil crop marks and brown discoloration are visible on the image. Caption: "Shopping center blaze in The Village caused an estimated $30,000 damage Thursday to eight stores."
Date: September 30, 1959
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0299

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a building with a fire ladder extended to the roof of a "Safeway" building. Three men stand at the top of the ladder. There is a fire hose on the ground, and a crowd gathered.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0454]

Description: Photograph is of a pile of brick, burnt wood and other structural items in front of a building that is missing its windows and doors due to a fire. Caption: "Piles of debris provided a drab picture of the Crown Heights Drug Store Thursday morning after a $25,000 fire swept the building at NW 36 and Shartel."
Date: September 14, 1967
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0329

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of charred wreckage of a retail store after a fire. Caption: "Blackened ruins of Carter's Furniture are visible through display window frames."
Date: September 19, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0556]

Description: Photograph is of Reeves Food Store. Two firemen are fully present. One is spraying a hose on the fire and the other is walking towards the store. The roof, windows and doors have been destroyed by the fire. Burnt bricks and rubble are piled in front of the structure on the street. Caption: "Rush Springs fire is battled."
Date: September 16, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0223

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering trailer parked on the side of the road with two men standing nearby. Caption: "Smoke drifts from this $4,000 trailer load of mattresses"
Date: September 9, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0292]

Description: Photograph is of three groups of unidentified people each holding open fire hoses on a multiple level building that smoke is billowing out of the top. The buildings appear to be on a main street and the cafe is the closest seen in the photo that is completely consumed by smoke and missing a roof due to an active fire.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Burning Fence Post

Description: Photograph of a fencepost on fire. The weeds and brush behind the barbed wire fence was not burned off. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fence Post Burning. Fire in this large pasture destroyed grass, fences, and wildlife, but did not burn the weeds and brush."
Date: September 8, 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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