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[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0281]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The butane truck which exploded in the 4300 block S. Robinson, killing three persons, injuring 20 and spreading wide destruction, still burns in the picture above right."
Date: March 31, 1944
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0280]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right, S. S. Jamison and Fireman Lloyd D. Robertson of No.3 Engine, survey a part of the tank which cut a huge hole into the side of the Jamison home, 140 SW 42."
Date: March 31, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0275]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Destructive force of the explosion of a butane truck which spread death and damage in Capital Hill Friday is shown here."
Date: April 1, 1944
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0279]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two of the big cylindrical tanks ripped from the truck by the explosion are shown above in a vacant lot half a block away."
Date: March 31, 1944
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0095]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "To the sevice men's edition Saturday came a plea from five C.B. Oakies who have been put out in the South Pacific 16 months. "Send us some hometown pictures."
Date: April 14, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0469]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The small coupe in the center of this picture was a quick flaming death trap for three persons Tuesday afternoon when it crashed with a heavy gasoline truck at SE 29 and Eastern. Sprayed with gas from the broken truck, the passenger car was enveloped in flames so swiftly the occupants had no chance to escape."
Date: December 26, 1944
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1140.0227]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Brand new Christmas baby in 1944, Marshall Alan Rush is celebrating his 20th Birthday this year as his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rush, 3601 N Rockwell, look on just as proud as ever."
Date: December 23, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1140.0228]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "He's plump as a Christmas pudding, placid as an Oklahoma day, and pretty as a picture our new times Christmas baby, Marshall Alan Rush who poses with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. P.M. Rush, 200 N Donald, Bethany Tuesday."
Date: December 26, 1944
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Frantz

Description: A 1901 letter from Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Frantz regarding sending a letter and mentioning their reunion was pleasant. Roosevelt refers to Frantz as "Captain." Frantz served as a captain in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. Approximately a year after this letter was written, Roosevelt became the U.S. President when President McKinley was assassinated. On his visits to the White House, Frantz, an athlete and a boxer, engaged in several matches w… more
Date: August 20, 1901
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5877]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the city's most disastrous fires made this stricking picture. It is the OK Transfer and Storage Co. warehouse blaze on April 19, 1944. Richard Meek took the picture from the roof of Municipal Auditorium. The picture appeared in the Oklahoman April 20, 1944."
Date: April 19, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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