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[2012.201.B0051.0183]

Description: Plane crash near some trees and a creek. The plane is mostly intact with little damage. Photo taken in the daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "VACATION ENDED for members of the Ray Lynch family, 2115 NW 20, when their plane overshot the runway at Expressway Junction Airport, 3101 NE 63 and crashed in a creek bed Saturday noon. Mrs. Lynch received pulled pack muscles, but Lynch and their three children escaped injury. The family was ret… more
Date: July 20, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0237.0461]

Description: Photograph of a sheet of aluminum with small holes in it. Caption: "Pellet pocked storm door, owned by Lawrence Cook, 1315 SW 29, bears evidence of shotgun blast aimed at fleeing burglary suspect Wednesday."
Date: July 31, 1963
Creator: Frank, John E.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

2012.201.B0302.0008

Description: Photograph of two men in a performance. Caption: "Strawberries, two little steel balls, and back stage visits by psychiatrists are quietly making believers of those who see James Demopolos in the role of Captain Queeg at the Mummers Theater."
Date: April 3, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0411.0119]

Description: Photograph is of a group of men dressed in formal naval uniforms in line formation and saluting as one man is standing directly in front of the camera holding a briefcase in one hand and saluting in the other. Caption: "and out of the U.S. Navy was Thomas Henry Farrar, senior chief hospitalman."
Date: January 10, 1963
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0957.0067]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Drilling but not looking for oil is this Failing Model 90 Statmaster, turned out by George E. Failing Co., Enid." Photograph is of the rig and cranes. The cranes are raising the new permanent derrick to the oil rig.
Date: March 31, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0960B.0137]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Loving though he may be in the home, Utility is a trained police dog." Image is of a man wearing a police uniform and holding the leash tightly on a German Sheppard dog that is leaping forward.
Date: March 14, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0960B.0150]

Description: Dog looks at woman cooking in the kitchen with little girl sitting on counter. Image is of a woman standing in the kitchen wearing an apron facing the kitchen counter and a young girl sitting on top of the counter near the woman. On the floor a German Sheppard dog is sitting and looking up towards the woman.
Date: March 14, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0960B.0171]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Image is of a man wearing a police uniform and helmet holding the leash for a German Sheppard dog that is also wearing a harness. They are standing near a car. The dog is pulling forward on the leash.
Date: May 2, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 51.0109]

Description: Caption: "Traffic was snarled for several blocks early Monday morning in the vicinity of NE 13 and Kelley as fireman battled a fire at the old Ritz theater Building" Firetrucks in front of old Ritz theater with ladder going to roof.
Date: October 7, 1963
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0071]

Description: Caption: "Charred ruins of Riss Truck Lines freight depot are part of the $300,000 trail of destruction left by three 11-year-old boys" Charred remains of Riss Truck Lines.
Date: October 9, 1963
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0166

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a brick archway and stairs leading to a building demolished by fire. Caption: "Doorway to debris marks a recent fire which completely destroyed the four-room Cowlington School about 20 miles northwest of Poteau."
Date: February 4, 1963
Creator: Garner, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0167

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building. People stand nearby. Caption: "Boiling smoke marks the scene of the Wetumka fire which caused damage to downtown businesses estimated at up to $300,000 Sunday."
Date: February 12, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0173]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a grass fire at an unidentified location in Oklahoma. The image shows a fireman armed with a water hose silhouetted against the fire's intense flames. Caption: "Scenes such as this were common in several sections of Oklahoma Wednesday as fires whipped by high winds raced over parched prairie grass, causing extensive damage."
Date: February 21, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0259]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a structure that was destroyed by fire. There is metal rubble and burnt wood standing and strewn across the ground. Smoke is still lightly rising from the remains. Caption: "Still smoldering Thursday were ruins of the Chickasha Cotton Oil compress of Chickasha after fire late Wednesday night did damage estimated at $90,000."
Date: October 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0280

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Debris and charred ruins are all that remain of the Murray Rexall Drug Store and adjoining building after the Duncan fire."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0281

Description: Photograph taken at night of firefighters extinguishing Rexall Drug building fire with a fire hose. Caption: "A spectacular fire swept through two buildings in the heart of downtown Duncan early Sunday morning, destroying a drug store and heavily damaging several offices."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0282]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman bent over inside a structure that has been destroyed by fire. The roof and most of the exterior walls have collapsed into the building and all the rubble inside the building is burnt. The fireman has a pipe in his mouth. Caption: "Pipe-smoking fireman works on hot interior of Murray Rexall Drug Store in Duncan."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0283]

Description: Photograph is of the side of a building that has collapsed on itself including the roof most walls and the brick wall in the background due to a fire. Brick and rubble is strewn all over the sidewalk around the remains of the building. Caption: "Firemen, hidden by smoke, work inside the gutted Murray Rexall Drug Store in Duncan as the structure continues to smolder. Charred shell was all that remained. It was a one-story building."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0284]

Description: Photograph is of two firemen spraying a fire hose in a building that has been destroyed by fire. there is charred rubble and burnt brick, metal, and wood strewn around the area.. Caption: "Spraying water on ruins of the Murray Rexall Drug Store, Duncan, is Fire Chief C. C. "Buck" Lawson. The fire broke out early Sunday morning. It still was smoldering Sunday evening."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0285]

Description: Photograph is of the inside of a structure that has been destroyed by fire. The rubble, still smoking, is piled and fallen all around the remaining walls. A fireman can be seen amongst the rubble near where smoke is still rising. Caption: "Smoke continued to pour from the smoldering drug store at Duncan ruins late Sunday evening."
Date: February 4, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0371]

Description: A daylight photograph of a grass fire in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, showing the smoke and flames of burning grass and underbrush along the Turner Turnpike near Stroud. Caption: "Grass fire rage along south side of Turner Turnpike, near Stroud, delaying traffic for awhile."
Date: March 28, 1963
Creator: Composing
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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