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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0602]

Description: Photograph shows seven unidentified men and five children observing and working around a structure that smoke is rising from the roof. Flames are coming out the top of the building as well. There is a ladder in the forefront of the image indicating that someone tried to assess the situation from a ladder on the roof. This photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Fireman effort is futile as the Tonkawa Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment burns."
Date: December 22, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0252]

Description: Photograph is of a man walking near a collapsed metal building surveying the damage. Some of the metal appears to have burn marks indicating it has been destroyed due to a fire.. Caption: "IT WILL BE SEVERAL DAYS before loss estimates are known for fire damage to a large at Cimarron Field, west of Yukon. The fire broke out Wednesday night and caused several thousand dollars worth of damage."
Date: July 18, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0381

Description: Guymon Fire department truck and fire fighters at end of daytime fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The north side of the fire-razed Guymon Lumber Co., with the bordering row of scorched trees attesting to the intense heat involved."
Date: October 4, 1957
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 67.0396]

Description: Photograph is of unidentified men fighting a fire that has completely overtaken by flames and smoke in the night sky. Water is being sprayed on the structure from a pump truck and a hose from a different direction. Caption: "Sweeps the Hugo Milling Co. elevator as firemen work to bring the flames under control Tuesday morning."
Date: August 7, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0286]

Description: Photograph is of groups of people standing outside of a single story brick building while smoke rises from roof. Firemen are standing on top of the building spraying hoses into the building and on the remaining roof. Caption: "LOSS WAS ESTIMATED AT $200,000 in this fire Sunday, which destroyed the Lindley hospital, the largest hospital in Duncan. Firemen evacuated 25 patients, including many children, before starting their fight on the fast spreading flames."
Date: December 23, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0249]

Description: Photograph is of a metal structure completely consumed by flames with a large fireball rising around every bit of the structure. The interior of the structure is completely consumed with fire too. The remains are seen in silhouette and wrapped in fire. Caption: "A three-hour fire which burned out of control for a short time completely gutted the elevator and warehouse of the Chic-o-line Feet Company here Monday night. No one was injured although several red-hot sheets of tin fell from the roof … more
Date: February 25, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0522

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a man standing near the wreckage of a building after a fire. Caption: "Students fought the blaze that destroyed the shop building and dressing rooms at Dunjee high school with hand fire extinguishers Tuesday afternoon."
Date: March 27, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0380

Description: crowd watching fire being put out, daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Volunteer fireman are attempting to cool debris in what a short time earlier was an up-to-date lumber company office and showroom with building materials in the rear of the long building."
Date: October 4, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0382

Description: Fire fighters on top and by burning remnants of a building,daytime. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Of what was once the two-story building of the Guymon Lumber Co., are firemen from Hooker , Texhoma and Guymon."
Date: October 4, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0253]

Description: Photograph is of a man surveying the damage left by a fire. Much of the roof has collapsed into the building and most of the inside of the building is charred with debris strewn across the ground. Caption: "FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN raged through a city owned airplane hanger at Cimarron field Wednesday night, causing several thousand dollars worth of damage."
Date: July 18, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0583]

Description: Photograph shows the building roof fully consumed by flames and smoke. Two people are observing the fire and damage as they walk from the building. A firemen's pump truck is near the building. Caption: "A $25,000 blaze destroyed a brick five room grade school Monday near Weleetka."
Date: March 27, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0271]

Description: Photograph is of a brick building with smoke coming out underneath the roof. The corner of the brick wall of the building is starting to collapse. Photograph was taken across a field. Fire hoses are spaying the building in the background. Caption: "CUSTER CITY ,watched this Packard Milling Co. building go up in smoke Wednesday causing an estimated $5,000 damage, only the mill section was burned and machinery was moved last year. The warehouse section and office are undamaged."
Date: June 5, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0060]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a natural gas pipeline explosion near Tuttle in Grady County, Oklahoma. The explosion lead some individuals to believe and report an airplane had crashed in the vicinity. Caption: "A 16-inch natural gas pipeline exploded south of Tuttle early Thursday night, shaking the countryside and prompting reports of an airplane crash."
Date: January 18, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0584]

Description: Photograph is of the outside brick wall falling away from the structure as it is consumed with flames. The roof, windows and interior structure is destroyed by fire. Caption: "The south wall of the Rosen walk school which housed about 60 Negro grade pupils falls outward as the intense heat buckles the brick structure."
Date: April 3, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0422

Description: Man looking over TV burned equipment and camera inside a studio, Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Cameras up in smoke. Emmett Keough, manager of Lawton radio-television station KSWO, stands between $25,000 worth of cameras which were damaged beyond use in a Sunday night fire in the studio four miles east of Lawton."
Date: December 17, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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