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[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0077]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There will be freaks at the Oklahoma State Fair, September 25 to October 3, of course - but this isn't one of them."
Date: September 10, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0465]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is Doris, of "Doris & Roberts," who so an Apache number in the "Moulin Rouge" on the midway at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: December 2, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0089]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A New High Act from Europe, the Alcidos, are here with the "Fair Follies of '56" as a replacement for Franz W. Stasch, who was killed Labor Day before a Minnesota State fair crowd."
Date: September 24, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0518

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of two women standing next to display in storefront window. Caption: "In front of the Mountain Park garage where Saturday auctions have been held to raise money for the school, Mrs. Elzie Noble, left, and Mrs. Henry Dotson, admire the quilt contributed by eight ladies of the community for the last sale."
Date: March 5, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0844]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Auto Wreckage Meant Sudden Death To Shawnee Woman. A Shawnee woman, Mrs. Elmer Dethrow, 50, died in this auto collision Sunday six miles south of Tecumseh."
Date: August 23, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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 67.0211

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.B0410.0090]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "She's lovely enough to eat, and that costume represents a gum drop in the fairyland story which closes the "Fair Follies of '53," which will appear before the grandstand at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: September 10, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0135]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Officers and a wrecker crew work to free a driver trapped in his car under this Rock Island Train at S West avenue. Critically injured and with his car crumpled around him, a 33-year-old driver was pinned alive for more than an hour under a Rock Island train west of here Saturday morning. But he died before officers and wrecker crew could free him. The man was identified by his driver license as Donald Joseph Pope. Hi… more
Date: October 30, 1954
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0301]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Crash Victim Pinned Under Car, Three persons were injured, one critically, in the auto smash-up about midnight Wednesday at NW 16 and Shartel. Above, the arrow points to Patsy Rut Maxey, 23, of 717 NW 29, critically hurt and pinned underneath the car. She was driving the car. Jean Hall, 25, of 1800 N Brauer, a passenger, is lying in front of the wrecked car and being comforted by a bystander. Driver of the other car, K… more
Date: November 11, 1954
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0580]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Sam Privitt, Longview Texas, is comforted by RaymondTunnard, Primrose Ambulance Driver, after she was injured seriously in a two-car collision five miles east of Norman on SH 9 Tuesday. Two other persons were injured seriously in the accident."
Date: August 2, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0256]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a wooden structure that was destroyed by a fire. Most of the roof is collapsed into the interior of the building and only part of a wall and charred wooded beams remains standing. Caption: "Fire Tuesday which destroyed a building housing the base chapel, gymnasium, post exchange and NCO club, at Clinton-Sherman air fore base has been blamed on faulty wiring. Maj. Ervin Bork, base fire marshal, estimated loss at $108,000."
Date: October 17, 1956
Creator: Westervelt, Jay
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0122]

Description: A daylight photograph of playground equipment and other remains of Oak Grove School in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, after a fire. Caption: "Play equipment, the foundation and the chimney (left) were all that was left after fire swept the school in Pottawatomie county."
Date: February 20, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0466]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Every year the "Moulin Rouge," the girls show on the midway , tries a bit more to compete with the big night grandstand show at the Oklahoma State Fair , with the result that the midway gets better and better."
Date: December 2, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0082]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The music will bring back memories of the old folks, but the youngsters will love the beautiful dance number of "The Waltz" as done by the 18 girls and their escorts in the huge "Fair Follies of '54."
Date: September 24, 1954
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0560]

Description: Photograph of a Shawnee Milling Company building being sprayed by a fire hose, while a crowd of men looks on. Photograph taken during daylight. Caption: "Firemen battle blaze in Shawnee."
Date: October 9, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0076]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Class in music, and class in showmanship, is this act in the Fair Follies of '56, wich opens September 22 at the State Fair of Oklahoma."
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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