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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0602]

Description: Photograph shows seven unidentified men and five children observing and working around a structure that smoke is rising from the roof. Flames are coming out the top of the building as well. There is a ladder in the forefront of the image indicating that someone tried to assess the situation from a ladder on the roof. This photograph was taken in the daytime. Caption: "Fireman effort is futile as the Tonkawa Laundry and Dry Cleaning establishment burns."
Date: December 22, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0156.0701]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "No one driving the roads of Oklahoma these days would expect to come across a limestone block arched bridge like this one from out of the past."
Date: 1981
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0323.0197]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Erosion near the mouth of a small, and usually dry, creek near Kaw City in Kay County has made the bottom of this fencepost disappear."
Date: 1978
Creator: Casto, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0547

Description: Ponca City furniture store night time fire with fireman in "cherry picker" dowsing the fire from on high. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fireman fights raging downtown Ponca City blaze from high perch Wednesday night as he directs stream of water into blazing furniture store and clothing store."
Date: November 21, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0543]

Description: Photograph is of a building engulfed in flames. The silhouette of two men are visible near the building. The roof is gone and all the windows. Burnt debris is around the building. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Firemen brave frigid blasts to fight Ponca blaze."
Date: January 24, 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0546]

Description: Photograph is of a pump truck with the ladder fully extended to the side with a fireman on the top shooting water on a building fully engulfed in flames. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Fire roars as fireman on top the ladder shoots the water to it."
Date: May 12, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0545]

Description: A nighttime photograph showing Ponca City firemen and a fire engine as smoke billows from the Walker Walgreen Drug store, situated next to T.G.& Y. in the Pioneer Shopping Center.
Date: January 17, 1962
Creator: Casto, Bill
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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