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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 67.0317]

Description: Photograph is an aerial shot of the roof that has collapsed and been destroyed by a fire from within the building. An unidentified man is inside the remains of the building surveying the burnt remains. Everything that is visible inside the building is burnt. Photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Some of the remains of the approximately 35 automobiles, 29 of them 1957 models, destroyed in Friday's #35,000 fire at the Richardson Pontiac-Cadillac Co. in Enid, may be seen in this photograp… more
Date: April 6, 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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0140]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Damage amounting to more than $50,000 was inflicted Thursday by a two-alarm fire that burned out the auditorium of Classen junior-senior high school at 1901 N Ellision."
Date: January 3, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Richard
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0136]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A major restoration job will be required to put the burned out Classen high school auditorium back in use, a board of education official said Friday."
Date: January 4, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Richard
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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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