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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1939]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two firefighter at the stairwell inside a house/building, water hose at the bars, rubble, and more.)"
Date: February 26, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1948]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Five children burned to death, another was critically burned and 17 others were dramitically rescued early Thanksgiving morning when a raging fire gutted Warr Acres convalescent home at 5901 NW 52. The fire broke out about 7:40 a.m. Thursday in the second story of the Flake convalescent home for handicapped children and was battled by firemen from Warr Acres, Bethany and Oklahoma City before being brought under contro… more
Date: November 27, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1949]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ambulance drivers braved dense smoke and fire to bring these small victims from the tragic Thanksgiving day at the Flake Children's Shelter at 5901 NW 52. These men were among drivers of eight ambulances that answered the call."
Date: November 27, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1934]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This picture was taken at the height of the $100,000 fire Sunday night which destroyed the senior highschool building and auditium of the Putnam City highschool, and damaged a recently completed gymnasium. Hundreds of spectators gathered to watch the blaze in the bitter cold, which hindred firemen."
Date: 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1947]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Valley Brook school building at SE 59 and Eastern was destoryed by fire early Friday. It is shown above engulfed in flames. The blaze of undetermined origin, swept through the three-room, frame school and two smaller buildings. The school had not been used in two years. School officials estimated the loss at $4,000."
Date: September 26, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1937]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of firefighters on the roof of a building/house, the one in the center and one on the far left holding water lines, other around the roof, and more.)"
Date: February 26, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1935]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An 8-hour blaze of unkown origin swept a half section of grasslands near Edmond and adjoining I-35 Tuesday night. Heavy winds hampered firemen from Edmond, Oklahoma City, the Village, Nichols Hills and Oklahoma County."
Date: November 18, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1933]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fire which roared through one end of the building Thursday afternoon, awakened the many legends surrounding "Arnettt castle" at NW 39 and State. Most of the legends were woven about Eugene Arnett, multi-millionaire insurance salesman and eccentric, who made it his home from 1916 until his death in 1938. You here thousdands of stories about the old 56-room office building "and most of them are true," says Leonard Glasgow… more
Date: December 27, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1951]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Woodwork and auto mechanics students started a man-sized slvage job and band members camped on the cafeteria stage Thursday, but other Star Spencer highschool classes proceeded as usual. All the teachers and many students looked sleepy though. They had been up most of the night watching flames melt away and important chunk of the new school's facilities. Reduced to smoldering embers by dawn was a complex of surplu… more
Date: 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1941]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shaken but unharmed, eight children who escaped from a burning house at 2008 S Nebraska watch television at the home of their grandmother, Mrs. Louise Showers, while firemen douse the blaze. A 6-year-old girl was killed in the fire."
Date: January 2, 1977
Creator: Maloney, Larry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1945]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fire killed two small children Friday morning when it destroyed this frame house at 3508 S Epperly. This picture was taken shortley before the house collapsed after being gutted by flames. Firemen from Del City and Oklahoma City were called to battle the blaze, but were unable to extinguish it. Two other children escaped death by running from the house ahead of the flames. Neighbors gathered in the dusty street … more
Date: December 4, 1959
Creator: McComas, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1952]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a house/building in flames with a blaze coming out of the roof, the walls still up, windows broke out, a person on the left, and more."
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1936]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smoke obscures hard-working Del City firemen as they battle to keep flames away from oil tank in background. A grass fire, which blackened a 40-acre area around SE 44 and Sunnylane Rd. Sunday required fire units from Del City, Midwest City, Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma County to conquer it. Several oil wells and tanks in the vicinity were threatened, as were homes on the south and east of the burned area. there was no los… more
Date: March 5, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1953]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. W. T. Gyles, Harrah physician, suffocated early Wednesday when flames swept though living quarters in the rear of a clinic he operarted. The body was taken to the Wilson Funeral Home in Harrah. Services will be in Weatherford. Cause Not Known Cecil Honea, Harrah volunteer fire chief, said the fire was discovered about 3 a.m. Cause has not been determined, he siad. Dr. Gyles, about 45, was injuried about a … more
Date: March 15, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1938]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a firefighter's axe near the camera, fighters a top a house, a person(?) with them, housing around, and more.)"
Date: February 26, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1944]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Moving along is the new Putnam City highschool at NW 50 and Independence. Scheduled for opening next fall, the highschool will ease crowded conditions in the huge NW 39 consolidated school for the west side independent district. Junior high classes will be moved into the old highschool building. The pln is the second to be built away from the central campus in Warr Acres."
Date: April 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1954]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smoking rubble is all that remains after a $50,000 fire leveled the Randall Sharpe Contracting Co., warehouse and offices 2 1/2 miles north of Britton Tuesday afternoon. The spectacular blaze was whipped by strong winds and punctuated with a series of explosions when stores of paint blew up. the fire idled 35 employes temporarily. the firm cleans underground fuel tanks for the government. Cause of the blaze … more
Date: January 7, 1958
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1946]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Del City children were burned to death Friday morning and a brother and sister narrowly escaped as fire destroyed their home at 3508 S Epperly Dr. Dead were Randy Green, 5, and his 3-year-old sidter, Geraldine. Barbara Green and James Green ran from the burning house that claimed their younger brother and sister. The victims were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Loys Green. Mrs. Green, in a state of shock and under … more
Date: December 4, 1959
Creator: Voegle, Glenn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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