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[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0415]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wet, dismal weather failed to dampen the enthusiasm of scores of well-wishers who dropped in Sunday afternoon at Christ Methodist church"
Date: September 24, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0611]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "of wheat lay on the ground at Tyrone Monday following a freak explosion in a tube of the Compton grain elevator Saturday. Eldon Compton said workmen were removing grain form the tube when they heard a "crackling" sound and the concrete burst."
Date: September 8, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0587]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With a waiting line of trucks numbering up to 40 at times dumping maize into the already full Pittman Grain Co. elevator the grain is being dumped out the other side from a hole high up on one of the concrete tubes."
Date: December 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0184]

Description: Nighttime photograph of a grain elevator fire at Anadarko in Caddo County, Oklahoma. Emergency responders use water hoses to battle the flames. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Anadarko elevator swept by fire"
Date: September 11, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0050]

Description: A daylight photograph showing damage at the Shattuck Grain Company elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. The damage was caused by explosions after a train derailment involving oil-filled tank cars. Caption: "The wreck occurred near the elevator of the Shattuck Grain Co. shown in one photograph."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0112]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "When you see concrete elevators looming high above most Oklahoma cities you think of wheat, but when you look at Harrah's newest landmark, think of corn."
Date: August 12, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0057]

Description: A daylight photograph showing smoking, twisted debris after oil-filled railroad tank cars derailed and exploded near the grain elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0605]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Major county farmers in the Orienta community will find more elevator space for the 195- harvest with completion of the new 200,000 bushel storage plant of the Major County Co-Operative Elevator association."
Date: February 10, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0182]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a grain elevator fire at Anadarko in Caddo County, Oklahoma. Emergency responders armed with fire hoses combat the flames. Caption: "Anadarko elevator fire"
Date: September 11, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0048]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of an explosion involving oil-filled railroad tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The image shows damaged telephone poles and a destroyed building near the local grain elevator. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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