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[Photograph 2012.201.B0306.0156]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the busiest men in the current Times Classic bowling tournament is Jess Dickey, proprietor of Jenks alleys, where the meets is in progress with an all-time high entry of more than 540 keglers from over the southwest."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0334.0352]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This 55-gallon steel drum was the bomb casing that held the explosive punch. (M. M. Kinley and Paul Adair, Houston firemen, are at either end, Harold Drilling, Elk City welder, kneeling)"
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0522]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Center, Leo Willison, left, who taught son Leon to howl at Ponca City, demonstrates "from" to the young man who toppled 1,252 pins in six games at Jenks to grab the lead 540-man which ends next weekend."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0525]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Target of the second half of the Times Singles Classic field this weekend will be the 1,252 score posted by Leon Willison of Ponca City, current leader of the premier singles tournament of the section."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1913]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ever blow the flame off a burning match? Well, here's what was supposed to be a garagantuan puff, 200 pounds of nitroglycerine, to blow the flame off og nature's brilliant torch that had lighted the Elk City oil field Tuesday night until Monday morning. The "nitro" is in the water-cooled drum at the end of the boom just as workmen edged it toward the flame in a rehearsal for a second try Monday before the blaze exting… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1914]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is a water line crew inching toward the wild Elk City gas well fire at a crucial moment in battling the five-day blaze. Water from three dams on Elk creek was ready to gush into the crater below the inferno and cool it past fire danger once the blaze was extinguished."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1915]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No one knows just what happened deep in the earth to make the wild well choke itself to death. But the enormous pressure of gas apparently gouged out the sides of the hole in such a way that they fell it on themselves and formed a natural plug. Oil men call it "bridging." Beforehand, through, the well belched up mighty columns of mud, soil and rock through the heart of the flame. That black column in left center is it. … more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1916]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These flames are 100 feet or more behind M.M. Kinley and Paul Adair, the Houston fire fighters called in to combat the blaze. It is plenty hot at this spot. The bulldozer was used to shove up earthen embankments as close to the fire as it could possibly get. These offered some protection, just as did the improvised metal shield behind which the men are standing in the picture on Page 1, but it was dangerous and uncomfort… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1921]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "That dark mound in the right center of the picture probably was the villain of the re-ignition story. It was the traveling block, the pulley-like mechanism that moved up and down at the end of cable and supported the drilling tools, the easing, etc. It couldn't be pulled out of the crater because most of the time it was enveloped in flame. Photographer Owen got this shot at a moment when a vagrant breeze whipped the blaz… more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1922]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Elk city's spectacular oil well fire was still blazing Sunday after it was blown out once by explosives and then re-ignited almost immediately. Myron M. Kinley, famed Houston oil well firefighter, and his crew of men will make another attempt to extinguish the blaze Monday. Sunday's attempt was the climax of a major-four-day engineering project under Kinley's direction before the fire was snuffed out of time. In the … more
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1925]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here four workmen huddle behind a metal shield for protection from the intense heat of Elk City's wild gas well before the blaze snuffed itself out. They are part of the crew that had rigged explosives and water line to blow out the 5-day-old blaze and flood the wild well's crater with water to prevent a re-ignition of the 40,000,00 cubic feet of gas estimated spewing from the earth."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1926]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The jumble of metal at right was once worth many thousands of dollars. It was oil well drilling machine before the Shell well caught fire. The flames quickly reduced it to tangled junk. Crews managed to hook cables to this and pull it out. Here, the wreckage is surveyed by J. H. Carmichael, 52 1/2 SW 24, and Herman Awes, Tulsa, superintendents for Heimerich and Payne, Inc., the drilling contractors on the lease."
Date: January 15, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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