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[BASEMENT BOX 66.0060]

Description: Caption: "It was something to breathe the pure air, and have before one the expanded views of the prairie . . . truly sublime and beautiful." - Charles Latrobe, "The Rambler in North American" 1832" Black smoke rolling from controlled fire, surrounded by cars.
Date: April 26, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0594]

Description: Photograph of the destroyed front of Foster Department Store. Part of the brick wall of the structure has collapsed in to the street. The roof and all the inside of the building has been consumed by fire and destroyed. This photograph was taken in the day time.
Date: April 18, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0476]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dinner waits while Mrs. Clinton Stubblefield takes time to help a neighbor fill out voter registration forms."
Date: October 19, 1964
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0026]

Description: Caption: "Right, Bobby Lewis and his brother Charles, 14, survey stairway leading to a roof through which Lewis' wife nearly plunged in flight." Boy standing on stairs near his brother outside their burned home.
Date: December 30, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0067]

Description: Caption: "Ravaged by fire, Sooner Community Church will vanish after 55 years as a southeast Oklahoma County landmark." Outside look at burned Sooner Community Church.
Date: April 14, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0056]

Description: Caption: "A pre-dawn blaze at the Over and Under 30 Club and Lounge, 6233 NW 10, cased an estimated $20,000 damage to the downstairs part of the two-story building, left, with extensive smoke damage upstairs." Charred chairs from the Over and Under 30 Club and Lounge.
Date: November 12, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0050]

Description: "Quite a grass fire was he way an Oklahoma City Fire Department spokesman Wednesday described a Blackened path two blocks wide and a mile long south from NE 59 and Bryant." Burned tires and trees in the aftermath of grass fire.
Date: February 11, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0034]

Description: Caption: "Lending a Hand, neighbor Don Smith takes a hose to water down smoldering rubble Thursday after a fire swept the Richard L. Cooper Home at 3409 NW 68." Man using garden hose to help put out fire at neighbor's house.
Date: December 31, 1970
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0068]

Description: Caption: "Sooner Community Church, with a history dating back to 1889, will not serve any more young congregations trying to get a start." Charred remains of Sooner Community Church.
Date: April 14, 1970
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0039]

Description: Caption: "Flames apparently starting in the ceiling destroyed this concrete block building at 3133 NE 23, as firemen struggled against the odds of blocked doors an lack of water." Firetruck in front of burning Foster's Restaurant.
Date: December 16, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0021]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In the middle of the International Building at the State Fair of Oklahoma, fairgoers are suddenly transported into another world."
Date: September 26, 1971
Creator: Pate, Dave
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0336]

Description: Photograph is of a brick structure engulfed in flames. Flames are rising out of the broken windows and smoke is billowing out of the roof. Three unidentified men are in the photo observing the fire. Caption: "The rambling, three story Tully Building, a Eufaula landmark since 1899, and adjoining businesses were destroyed by a fast moving fire this morning which threatened a large portion of the downtown business section for an hour."
Date: July 9, 1970
Creator: Parkhurst, Dean
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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