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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0642]

Description: Photograph of firemen fighting an active fire consuming three buildings on a main street of Maysville, Oklahoma town. In the forefront of the photo is a crowd of people observing the firemen dosing a fire with a hose. Photo was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville, Okla. fire"
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meeks, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0638]

Description: Photograph is of a theater that has burned with buildings to the left of the theater that have burned completely and barely resemble a theater.Threwe men are looking inside the theater while a couple is looking in the windows of a store to the left of the theater. The photograph was taken during the day. Caption: "Minco"
Date: April 12, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0640]

Description: Photograph of smoldering ruins of a building on a street. Front and roof of building is missing due to fire damage. Cinders and rubble is strewn across the sidewalk. photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Maysville started to drill first well Monday for a new water supply. The Volunteer fire department has been expecting delivery of a new pumper fire truck any day. Tuesday night, firemen strung hose to fight a small blaze in the Granada theater, but nothing happened when they turned … more
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meeks, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0639]

Description: Photograph of the burnt rubble of buildings that lined a street. All that remains are partially burnt signs and brick in a pile. A few unidentified men are surveying the damage. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Minco Fire"
Date: April 12, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0635]

Description: Photograph is of a scorched field, trees, and bushes with the smoke cloud trailing to the left off of the burnt ground. photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Grass & brush fire near Edmond."
Date: October 24, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0634]

Description: Photograph is of a scorched barn. All that remains are the metal pieces of the barn and farm equipment. photograph was taken during the day time. Caption: "Grass & brush fire near Edmond."
Date: October 24, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0641]

Description: Photograph is of merchandise set up on boxes and carts in the street. Many unidentified people are looking at the items. Photograph was taken during the night time. Caption: "In the picture below is shown the effort of townspeople to salvage merchandise and equipment from stores in the flames' path."
Date: January 20, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0643]

Description: Photograph shows a large black cloud of smoke rising above a building. A large crowd of people are turned facing the building observing the smoke. Three people are on top of the building and one is running across the awning of the building towards the roof of the building. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "A huge cloud of black smoke billowed high above Hart Motor Co. in Yukon Friday night as firemen from Oklahoma City and Yukon battled flames in the recently renovated building." more
Date: September 17, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0629]

Description: Photograph is the remains of a school. The roof is missing as well as many of the structure's walls. The rubble is in piles where it fell or was burned on the ground surrounding the standing walls. the photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "Classes will be resumed in the Blair, Jackson county, school, after a $70,000 fire last week."
Date: February 10, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0636]

Description: Photograph is of a burnt cabinet, wall and cabinet. Broken items are on top of the burnt counter top. Photograph was taken during the day time.. Caption: "The charred sacristy in the Tonkawa Catholic church as vandals left it."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0633

Description: Photograph of a smoldering bridge and field during daylight hours. Caption: "This blazing bridge stopped fireman Friday as flames swept over 160 acres of powder-dry fields east of Edmond."
Date: October 24, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0630

Description: Photograph of a church on fire during daylight hours. Caption: "Fire which originated in the coal chute completely destroyed the Corn Mennonite Brethren church at Corn Sunday morning."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0637]

Description: Photograph is of a downed power line and a pile of bricks with a smoldering cloud of debris behind a partially standing wall. Photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Smoke still rose from the ruins when the picture above was taken after flames swept through five business firms in Minco early Tuesday."
Date: April 12, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0626

Description: Photograph of charred building interior decimated by fire. Caption: "This door Thursday framed destruction of the Seminole Motor Sales Co. warehouse in Seminole after flames swept through the structure Wednesday afternoon, leaving more than $100,000 damages."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0632]

Description: Photograph of an burning oil tanker on a highway, used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. An unidentified man is on the right of the image, watching the fire. There are crop marks near the top and bottom of the photo. Caption: "A spectacular blaze, which consumed 3,024 gallons of crude oil and damaged a new trailer truck, tied up traffic for more than two hours Tuesday on the Guthrie cut-off near Bradbury corners."
Date: 1949-03-23~
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Lightning Caused Fire]

Description: Photograph of smoldering debris in field during daylight. Caption: "The ruins of 10,000 bales of Alfalfa, set afire by a bolt of lightning Sunday night, were still smoldering Tuesday on the Roy Wickham place, a mile east of Elk City."
Date: November 2, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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