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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3303]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Re-construction of the Flake Prince home for mentally retarded children, destroyed in a tragic fire last Thanksgiving day, started Wednesday after a building permit was issued Tuesday night by Warr Acres city council. A $50,000 one-story, fire-resistant building will go up in place of the burned-out structure...The original home, operated by Mrs. Mary Flake and her sister, Mrs. Harvie Prince, was destroyed last Novembe… more
Date: 1959
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3307]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The house that nickels and dimes built, with help of an occasional $100 bill, will be thrown open Sunday to inspection by the people who made it possible. Open house has been declared for the rebuild Flake-Prince Children's Shelter. 5901 NW 52, in which five youngsters died in a tragic fire last Thanksgiving Day. Two grateful women, Mrs. Mary Flake and her sister, Mrs. Harvie Prince, will be on hand at least part of … more
Date: 1959
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3308]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Warr Acres has stabbed north of Northwest highway, brining its city limits to the boundaries of Lake Hefner. The 35-acre triangle was part of a three section annexation step taken by the Warr Acres council last week, in an apparent answer to Oklahoma City annexations in the same area......Warr Acres wanted to get land it considered its property inside its own limits. Several housing projects by Warr Acres developers a… more
Date: 1959
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1396.0035]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wrecking crew is shown tearing down what remains of the Flake home for mentally retarded children that burned in Warr Acres last Thanksgiving Day, taking five lives."
Date: March 13, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3305]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Old and new blend in many ways in Putnam City Baptist Church, which recently completed the new sanctuary and steeple. The new section is strictly colonial in all respects. The new spire seperates the new building from an old education section that has served the congregation many years."
Date: March 26, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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