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[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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0449]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the act that has everyone talking in the circuit of the Royal American Shows, which will be on the midway this year at the Oklahoma State Fair."
Date: September 9, 1953
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0446]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Some of the most gorgeous costumes in the "Fair Follies of 53," are in the "Candyland number" which will close each huge variety show before the grandstand at the Oklahoma State Fair, which opens here September 26."
Date: September 14, 1953
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0569]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieut. F. A. Mussen, Clinton highway patrolman, above, inspects the ruins of the house trailer after Thursday morning`s highway catastrophe 1 1/2 miles west of Hydro on U. S. 66. Both vehicles were headed east when they collided."
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0290]

Description: Photograph is of a multiple story building that has smoke rising out of the where the roof once was. The windows are missing and the brick has burnt marks. A man is outside the building near a car by a fence.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0571]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s all that`s left of the house trailer and belongings of the Jean Louis Wilkey family whose automobile collided with the bus. The trailer was torn free of the car by a bridge railing but was demolished when it smashed into the bridge structure. Mrs. Wilkey and her daughter, Jerry Ruth, were killed in the crash, and Wilkey, driver of the car, is in critical condition in Clinton`s Oklahoma General hospital."
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0288]

Description: Photograph is of a corner of a multiple story building that smoke is billowing out of the top and broken windows. There are two prominent electrical poles near the building in the image. Part of the brick walls of the structure have collapsed.
Date: September 14, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0655]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. L. G. Hill shows a first place "squaw necklace" made by Carole Garrett, 2311 NW 21, which already has won at the Oklahoma State fair, junior girls division."
Date: September 24, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0658]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "is Louie Mann, Jones, who entered this step-up table in the 4-H handicraft exhibits at the Oklahoma State fair, one of the interesting junior departments of the exposition which opened Saturday for an eight-day run."
Date: September 25, 1953
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0243]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWO PERSONS WERE HURT Thursday when this car and a truck collided in the 2200 block S Eastern and then plunged into a 10 foot ravine."
Date: August 2, 1953
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0038]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's way the Rock Island "Rocket" was 'way behind schedule Monday. A panel bread truck slammed into the train broadside at 6:37 a. m. south of NE 23 on Douglas Blvd."
Date: August 17, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408.0444]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Breath-taking antics of Aut Swenson's Thrillcade performers are guaranteed to make grandstand spectators gasp at the Oklahoma State Fair, September 26 to October 3."
Date: September 22, 1953
Creator: Hasking, Squire
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0393]

Description: Photograph is of a structure burning to the ground completely engulfed in flames and smoke. Debris is surrounding the structure as it burns. Caption: "Nobody will park between signs at a time like this."
Date: January 14, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0418.0339]

Description: Photograph two groups of firemen are spraying water from a hose on a single story wooden structure. There are a few men in dress clothes nearby surveying the damage. heavy smoke is rising from the eaves, roof, and windows of the structure. Caption: "Two hose teams of Oklahoma City firemen press close to the east side of Warr-Caston Lumber Co.'s sash and door."
Date: February 18, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0247]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Police Friday were attempting to piece together the story of a vice squad detective - on a dazed condition from a broken nose and head cut - found in his smoking and wrecked police cruiser at NW 15 and Pennsylvania."
Date: February 28, 1953
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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