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BASEMENT BOX 67.0097

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people viewing destruction inside a building gutted by fire. Caption: "This is what the Shawnee highschool looked like to one student after fire gutted the 39-year-old structure early Saturday morning."
Date: March 28, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0263

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people milling around structures engulfed in billowing smoke. Caption: "A fire which swept through the William Cameron & Co. Lumberyard in Comanche Tuesday afternoon resulted in a $45,000 loss. Four nearby houses were damaged and the town's business district was threatened."
Date: December 1, 1948
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

BASEMENT BOX 67.0098

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of brick building engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "Flames that destroyed the main section of the Shawnee High School building early Saturday morning were curbed after three hours."
Date: March 28, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0309

Description: Photograph taken at night of people standing near structural fire. Caption: "Champlin refinery's specialty equipped fire fighters battle the blaze which broke out in the company's oil processing plant at Enid early Friday. An explosion in one of the processing tanks was blamed. Damage was estimated by a company official at $650,000. They had it in check by 10 AM although it was still burning and there was plenty of smoke. Two hours later the fire was out. Note the work man who has lost interest… more
Date: March 12, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0119]

Description: Photograph ttwo men are sitting on a roof ledge of a building while the street below is filled with water from a fire truck spraying water on the roof of the building. There is smoke in the air.
Date: September 20, 1948
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0120]

Description: Photograph is of a wooden structure that has mostly burned to the foundation. there are many groups of unidentified men moving hoses and surveying the fire damage. Smoke is still rising from the rubble.
Date: June 12, 1948
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0115]

Description: Photograph is of two men surveying the remains of a home that has been consumed with flames and burnt to the foundation. Black burnt rubble is all around the two men. An oven is the only recognizable item. Caption: "A gas range, standing among ashes, was about all that remained of the Sam Bidwell home Saturday morning after an explosion and flash fire claimed the lives of four children and injured the mother of one."
Date: April 17, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0365

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoldering building on fire. Caption: "More than $250,000 went up in smoke in Frederick this weekend when fire destroyed a seed house and 116 tons of cottonseed belonging to the Chickasha Cotton Oil Co., along with a conveyor and cleaning machinery."
Date: November 7, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0620]

Description: Photograph is of a structure that looks to be a barn consumed in flames. Photograph was taken from across a field and behind a barb wired fence during the day time. Caption: "Fire which broke out in the seed house of the Chickasha Cotton farm, company treasurer estimated."
Date: April 9, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0101

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of the smoldering shell of what was once Shawnee High School. Caption: "Only the doorway facing U. S. 270 remained in one piece Saturday morning after a $500,000 fire swept the Shawnee High School, destroying the main part of the building."
Date: March 27, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0044]

Description: A nighttime photograph of an Oklahoma Natural Gas Company pipeline explosion in the vicinity of Oklahoma City and Moore in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "This spectacular tower of flames, which lighted southern Oklahoma City and Moore for several hours early Friday, came after a 12-inch Oklahoma Natural Gas Co., main line exploded at midnight Thursday."
Date: February 12, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0650]

Description: Photograph of the front of Shawnee High School with no windows or door and building behind the front facing brick has burned to the ground. There are over fifteen people visible in the photo viewing the remains of the building. The photo was taken in the day time. Caption: "Shawnee High School"
Date: March 27, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5965]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This was the scene Thursday morning as firemen battled flames that destroyed the Golden Dawn night club, 2330 NW 1, formely Chief Jim's and took the life of Alice Boykin, 50, right, divorced wife of J.G. Boykin and owner and operator of the taveren."
Date: November 4, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5962]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a fire outside and around a group of buildings and equipmen, water spray coming from the middle left, storage tank with a building on both sides in huge blaze, and more. Backside handwriting: "Double Eagle Refining Co.")"
Date: January 23, 1948
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10335]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The rescue net held! That's what Bill Latham was hoping Friday as he took a test leap off Central fire station's new drill tower. Latham is a member of the drill crew which will take part in the dedication show Saturday afternoon in front of the new tower. Multiple jumps and other training stunts will be made by firemen to demonstrate modern fire fighting and rescue methods."
Date: May 28, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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