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BASEMENT BOX 67.0213

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0215

Description: Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0597]

Description: Photograph of four firemen on a large pile of material spraying hoses on the smoldering material. Photograph was taken int he day time.Caption: "Firemen battled wind and cold and unwilling hoses early Thursday in bringing a Yukon gin fire under control."
Date: November 26, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
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 67.0214

Description: Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0212

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people standing near structural wreckage and an ambulance. Caption: "An ambulance is backed up waiting to take the last of the victims from the Thursday morning fire that claimed 16 lives"
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0001]

Description: A daylight photograph darkened by smoke shows concerned residents as a grass fire threatens their rural property near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Worried residents kept a sharp eye on their property northeast of Oklahoma City Saturday as wind whipped flames roared through some 100 square miles and smoke turned midday to twilight."
Date: March 14, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0003]

Description: A daylight photograph of a man using a water hose to extinguish hot spots among corrugated tin and other debris after a grass fire in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "[Dozens of fires] have plagued Oklahoma County the past week."
Date: March 18, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0150]

Description: A daylight photograph showing Jimmy Jones and Danny Vernon, students at Star Spencer High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, among the remains of their school's trades building that was destroyed by fire. Caption: "Star-Spencer high school students Jimmy Jones, left, and Danny Vernon look over ruins of the trades building."
Date: February 13, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
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 67.0206

Description: Photograph of buildings engulfed in a fiery blaze. People stand nearby apparently attempting to manage the fire. Caption: "The storage house and elevator equipment was destroyed"
Date: January 15, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0603]

Description: Photograph is of a crowd of unidentified men observing black smoke rising out of the top of a tall wheat storage bin. Water is being sprayed on the storage building. Photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Fire fighters try vainly to control flames which whipped through wheat at the Mulhall Co-operative association storage bin Thursday, destroying the bin and some 10,000 to 20,000 bushels of grain."
Date: May 22, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0002]

Description: Water transported by tractor is used to fight a grass fire near a bridge in rural Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, in this daylight photograph. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "[Dozens of fires] have plagued Oklahoma County the past week."
Date: March 18, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
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 67.0004]

Description: A daylight photograph of a record grass fire near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows residents battling smoke and flames as the fire threatens their home. Caption: "Frightened residents of the area northeast of Oklahoma City Saturday afternoon used every means at their disposal to divert flames from their homes as the largest grass fire in the county's history ate through several thousands acres."
Date: March 14, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0177

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a building in flames with vehicles nearby. Caption: "Flames swept through the Bishop Cotton Gin in Bristow late Monday destroying the cotton press and other machinery, along with approximately 50 bales of cotton."
Date: December 1, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0598]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a building that was destroyed by fire earlier. Two ladders leading to windows on the second floor are leaning against the structure. No persons are present in this image. The building is black in areas from the fire damage. Pieces of aluminum siding surrounds the building. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Fire swept through the $200,000 Yukon Co-Operative Gin Mill here early Thursday, threatening more than 20 homes and a giant flour mill before it … more
Date: November 26, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0134]

Description: Photograph is of a truck with the hood open and burnt items in the back. 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 67.0589

Description: Photograph taken at night of a building on fire. Caption: "A $450,000 blaze swept through Wilburton's grade school, also damaging the high school building and gymnasium late Thursday."
Date: January 10, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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