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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0632]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rock Island track intersection West avenue west of Oklahoma City - Donald Joseph Pope of Ponca City killed."
Date: October 30, 1954
Creator: Swatek, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0502]

Description: Photograph is of a structure with a raging fire and black smoke rising from it. the roof and one wall has been consumed by fire and collapsed onto the ground outside of the structure. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0607]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE MAN DIED Wednesday when the new Studebaker coupe he was driving overturned several times and came to rest near the highway on NW MacArthur. The victim, Robert Donald Goodon of Newkirk who was discharged only four days ago from the army, was thrown clear of the vehicle. The car traveled more than 500 feet on the shoulder of the highway before overturning and striking a culvert. Goodon had driven to Oklahoma … more
Date: February 3, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0149.0314]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OUTSTANDING SENIOR MAN AND WOMAN at the University of Oklahoma this year are two Oklahoma City students who were awarded trophies by the OU Dads association at a banquet Friday night."
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0606]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Man Thrown, Killed As Auto Flips Over. Robert Donald Goodon, 23, who returned to his Newkirk home four days ago from service in the army, was killed instantly Wednesday when his car left the road and overturned a quarter mile north of Northwest highway on McArthur Boulevard."
Date: February 3, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0503]

Description: Photograph is of structure that has been reduced to a pile of flaming rubble due to a fire. All structural parts of the structure are gone. All that is left is metal rubble that did not burn to ash. On the other side of the flames, the outline of people watching the fire is present. The photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: March 2, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0508]

Description: Photograph is of three firemen near the doorway of a building on fire. One fireman is holding an open hose spraying in to the doorway into the building. The other two fireman are walking behind the one fireman. Flames are present on the ground in front of the firemen walking and a structure in the background also appears to be engulfed in flames. This photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: March 2, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0618]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Money Shower All Over The Place in Crash. Four persons were injured and this street was showered with $84 in coins Friday morning when a car went out of control on SE 29, careened across the center line of the street, and was rammed broadside by another car. Injured included the driver James Stamates, 1716 NW 7, who was thrown 47 feet. Midwest City policeman retrieved the spraying coins, scattered from rolls ca… more
Date: February 19, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0509]

Description: Photograph is of three firemen outside a building engulfed in flames with flames covering the roof. One fireman is spraying the fire from the hose through the window while another one is walking behind him. A third fireman is bringing a hose not spraying water closer to the building. Flames are visible through the windows. Smoke is billowing out of the back of the roof. Photograph was taken during the daytime. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: March 2, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0752]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "East Berlin, Germany .......All eyes are on the cameraman and everyone seems eager to oblige with the traditional request: "Everybody smile, now!" as Chou En Lai, communist boss of Red China is greeted in East Berlin by boys of communist Youth organization. Chou is wearing a scarf presented to him by the boys."
Date: July 30, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0501]

Description: Photograph is of a structure that has been destroyed by fire. Flames are still present in the rubble. The building behind the destroyed structure is also on fire. Firemen are present between the two buildings.
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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