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[2012.201.B0052.0181]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Grim reminder to motorists is this mock crash scene assembled on the center strip of Bethany' s Main street by Boy Scouts of troop No. 70, Bethany. The exhibit went up prior to the Memorial day weekend and will remain another few days, scoutmaster Jerry Talmadge said, Scouts have a national highway safety theme this year." The photograph is of a wrecked car with the driver's side door open to display the dishef… more
Date: June 3, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0358.0051]

Description: Photograph is a side head shot of a man wearing a military uniform. Caption: "121 NE 23--I hadn't even thought about it. I guess we'd just have to add a couple of stars somewhere."
Date: April 2, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0423.0344]

Description: Photograph is a head shot of a man smiling wearing a button down shirt with the collar of his undershirt showing. Caption: "YEOMAN 3-C FRANKLIN D. FOLSOM, 1441 NW 94--I don't think we should take Hawaii in."
Date: April 2, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 51.0173]

Description: Caption: "New officers of the Oklahoma Cattleman's association huddle after their election. They are, from left, Fred Craddock, Pawhuska; Clarke Moore, Nowata, and W.R. Brannon, Mariatta, second vice-presidents; D. C. Fitzgerald Jr., Ardmore, president; Henry C. "Ladd" Hitch Jr., Guymon, second vice-president and Ralph Barby, Knowles, first vice-president." Men sitting around table.
Date: March 28, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0101

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of the smoldering shell of what was once Shawnee High School. Caption: "Only the doorway facing U. S. 270 remained in one piece Saturday morning after a $500,000 fire swept the Shawnee High School, destroying the main part of the building."
Date: March 27, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0113

Description: Photograph taken at night of a well oil on fire. Caption: "A spectacular oil and gas fire roared 150 feet into the air over an oil well near NE 63 and Eastern for more than 5 1/2 hours Sunday morning."
Date: December 3, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0115]

Description: Photograph is of two men surveying the remains of a home that has been consumed with flames and burnt to the foundation. Black burnt rubble is all around the two men. An oven is the only recognizable item. Caption: "A gas range, standing among ashes, was about all that remained of the Sam Bidwell home Saturday morning after an explosion and flash fire claimed the lives of four children and injured the mother of one."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0126]

Description: A daylight aerial photograph of a landscape blackened by grass fires near Oklahoma City in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "The outlook is black for tinder-dry Oklahoma as fires destroy pasture and woodlands."
Date: November 1, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard
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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0376]

Description: A daylight photograph of underbrush burning in a Lincoln County, Oklahoma, grass fire. Caption: "Thickets went up in flames before the Lincoln County fire were under control."
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0377

Description: Daylight photograph of a grass fire along an unidentified Oklahoma roadway. The image shows grass blackened by fire as flames advance toward underbrush. No caption.
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0501]

Description: Photograph is of a structure that has been destroyed by fire. Flames are still present in the rubble. The building behind the destroyed structure is also on fire. Firemen are present between the two buildings.
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0502]

Description: Photograph is of a structure with a raging fire and black smoke rising from it. the roof and one wall has been consumed by fire and collapsed onto the ground outside of the structure. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0506]

Description: Photograph is of children and men observing a building on fire. The roof and the inside of the building is fully consumed by flames and smoke. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0507]

Description: Photograph is of seven firemen holding a fully open hose on a building engulfed in flames and smoke. An eighth fireman is observing as the firemen control the hose on the building.Smoke is distorting a clear image of the building on fire, but a piece of the roof is apparent through the smoke. photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Sooner School"
Date: February 27, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0510

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of unidentified young people helping firefighters manage a structural fire. Caption: "Midwest City students and teachers helped firemen battle high school blaze."
Date: July 29, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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