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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0271]

Description: Photograph is of a brick building with smoke coming out underneath the roof. The corner of the brick wall of the building is starting to collapse. Photograph was taken across a field. Fire hoses are spaying the building in the background. Caption: "CUSTER CITY ,watched this Packard Milling Co. building go up in smoke Wednesday causing an estimated $5,000 damage, only the mill section was burned and machinery was moved last year. The warehouse section and office are undamaged."
Date: June 5, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0864]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This semi-trailer refrigerated truck overturned and burned on SH 33 near Custer City Saturday, destroying both the truck and most of its cargo of eggs. Lost were 504 cases (15,120 dozen eggs). Salvaged were 99 cases, shown stacked in the foreground. The highway patrol estimated the damage at $10,000 to the truck and $10,000 in the destruction of the eggs. The driver, Paul M. Coffey, Tulsa, and Floyd Fletcher, Tulsa, ow… more
Date: August 13, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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