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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9281]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smoke mushrooms minutes after a high-flying jet exploded in the air over southwest Oklahoma. Plane in the foreground is on the ground at Will Rogers field here. Staff photographer John Gumm shot this picture while returning froma football assignment at Stillwater."
Date: 1959
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9234]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A gasoline transport truck being filled at General Facilities, Inc., 4700 NE 10, exploded into flames late Monday and momitarily threatened several oil tanks in that vicinity. Damage was estimated at $18,000 on the truck and $1,500 on the terminal. Only major loss however was the big truck owned by Groendyke Transport Inc. By the time Oklahoma City and Del City firemen brought the blaze under control, the truck was destr… more
Date: December 18, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9235]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three downtown Oklahoma City buildings were ripped apart early Saturday morning by an explosion that killed one person and sent 19 persons to hospitals for treatment. The explosion at 7:50 a.m. occurred in the 100 block E Grand wrecking the Janger Produce Co., 108 E Grand, and an adjoining cleaning plant and cafe. Killed in the blast was Mrs. Faye Lutts, 30, an employe of the Janger company and mother of two children. A … more
Date: December 24, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9246]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three persons were injuired, one seriously, Tuesday when a Yellow Cab Co. taxi blew up and caught fire in the 1000 block NW 4. Two passengers and the driver were blown from the car when fumes from the just-filled butane tank ignited, District Fire Chief W. C. Roach said. Mrs. Dealie Schubmehl, 43, of 308 N Allen, was admitted to St. Anthony Hospital suffering first and second degree burns to her face, hands and legs, hosp… more
Date: January 24, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9284]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of debris of a house/building around the grounds, a group of people in the background, a building behind the group, and more)"
Date: December 6, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9280]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A military jet aircraft exploded high over southern Oklahoma Saturday evening and sent flaming wreckage plummenting to earth in a 30-mile radius around Duncan. Hundreds of watchers in Oklahoma reported seeing the explosion. At least one body was reported found in the wreckage. Reports of parachutes were conflicting, but an Oklahoma highway patrol pilot said he saw at least one chute drifting down near cookietown...Lt. Ha… more
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9240]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Multiple explosions caused by burning gasoline fumes damaged an Oklahoma City service station Saturday afternoon. There were no injuries. A solid sheet of flames 50 feet across and bout 20 feet high shot up in front of the Bi Rite Service station, 2020 N Broadway. Boiling black smoke rose into the clear sky and could be seen for miles away. A fire truck rushing to the blaze from the fire station at California and Walke… more
Date: 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9282]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A series of explosions in the gasoline recovery plant of the Phillips Petroleum Co., refinery at Okmulgee, Monday claimed five lives. One man was killed outright and the others died of burns suffered when subsequent wxplosions overtook them trying to rescue men burned by the first blast. Of a battery of pressure tanks in the plant, one was huled 100 yards into the refinery yard. Smoke and flame seen in the picture is fro… more
Date: December 1, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9278]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 24-year-old mother and her two children were seriously injured Tuesday when a blast ripped their six-room frame home apart on the Superior Feed Mills experimantel farm just inside the Canadian county line on the Northwest highway. Mrs. Verna Wilkerson, and her two childern, Kerry, 4, and Vickie, 2, were rushed to McBride hospital in Oklahoma City by the husband, N. C. Wilkerson. The explosion occurred shortly after 10 a… more
Date: March 3, 1959
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9279]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 24-year-old mother and her two children were seriously injured Tuesday when a blast ripped their six-room frame home apart on the Superior Feed Mills experimantel farm just inside the Canadian county line on the Northwest highway. Mrs. Verna Wilkerson, and her two childern, Kerry, 4, and Vickie, 2, were rushed to McBride hospital in Oklahoma City by the husband, N. C. Wilkerson. The explosion occurred shortl… more
Date: March 3, 1959
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9239]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Death Scene at Tinker Air Force Base was in this mainterance building. Civilian workmen were welding on a pump at the rear of the 5,000-gallon fuel tank truck, when fumes apparently ignited and blew out the ends of the tank. One person was killed, another was critically injured and three others were severely burned."
Date: 1963
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9236]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An alcohol explosion in the prescription department at Ralph's Drug Store, NW 4 and Broadway, sent a druggist and fireman to the hospital Friday afternoon. Occupants of the adjoining Winn Hotel were forced to evacute. Treated for burns of the left arm and both legs was druggist Earl L. Wootan, 49, of 1443 NW 39. His condition was described as "good" at St. Anthony Hospital. Injured in a back-draft-blast that hurled hin … more
Date: May 19, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9241]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Four Were Hurt Monday night in a natural gas explosion in this garage apartment at 115 NW 12. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Foster; a guest, David Lee White, and Mrs. Foster's mother, Mrs. Vallie Prior, were treated for burns at Mercy Hospital after the explosion about 7:45 p.m. Firemen, seen here probing the wreckage, blamed a leaky gas pipe under the apartment. The blast was set off when Mrs. Ftarted to light her oven."
Date: December 5, 1960
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9242]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Heroes of all boys battle a 2-alarm fire at Ralph's Drug Store, NW 4 and Broadway Friday afternoon (top photo), and draw admiring glances from this group of small boys (bottom photo). The fire started with an alcohol explosion which injured druggist Earl L. Wooten, 49. Fireman Pat Patterson, 2230 NW 36, recieved minor injures in the fire which destoryed the drug store. Guests of a hotel above the store were routed."
Date: May 19, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9245]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A two-story, brick produce company building, a cleaning establishment and a café in the 100 E Grand were demolished by an explosion by and explosion Saturday morning. One woman was killed and 21 persons were injured. Killed in the blast at 7:50 a.m. which rocked the east side of the Oklahoma City business district was Mrs. Faye Lutts, employe of Janger Produce, 108 E Grand. Police and firemen dug feverishly for two … more
Date: December 24, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9244]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Big Hunt was interrupted Monday afternoon when this fireworks stand at NW 50 and Classen exploded. An employe of the controversial stand. Mark Walker, 2333 NW 35, said he was hunting cockroaches in the stand when a fire and double explosion hit. He suffered burns about the face. The stand was ordered closed by city council after the site was annexed a month ago. Deadline was Tuesday. Photo shows wreckage remaining… more
Date: September 7, 1959
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9243]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Irvin Parker, blown to bits Thursday night by a blast at the rear of his S Shields acreage, apparently was illegally mixing a secret fireworks formula when the explosion occured. Oklahoma City fire warden Ruhl Potts said Friday that blackened containers for magnesium, black powder and sulphur were found around the scene of the holocaust, 4601 S Shields. He theorized that Parker, 50, had been mixing the fireworks ingre… more
Date: August 8, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9237]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 2-month-old infant, injured when house exploded Thursday afternoon, died Friday morning under unexplained circumstances. The infant, Ray Charles Houston, died about 6 a.m. Friday after the child, the parents, and three brothers and sisters were released from Mercy hospital following treatment. The mother, Antinette Bethany, 26, called Rolfe Funeral Home, when she found her baby dead, funeral home officials told poli… more
Date: September 28, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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