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Repaving Old Street Car Tracks

Description: Photograph of laborers laying a compacted gravel base for repaving old street car tracks at Enid, Oklahoma. The track runs through a residential neighborhood.
Date: 1933
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0305.0006]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "For the second straight year, Mr. and Mrs. Bert DeVinney have captured the Enid city golf championships."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0293.0082]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Frantz Davies, top, and his cousin, Chris Bowers, will hold open house Sunday in this backyard A - frame hut they built as a summer project just for fun."
Date: September 8, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0600]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Union Equity Co-operative Exchange, Enid, Okla."
Date: February 18, 1940
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0315]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy W. Davis, Enid, Racing secretary, and Merle Brady, seiling presiding Stewart, said some of the finest stock in the country are being brought in got the races."
Date: April 10, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0138]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "George E. Failing"
Date: April 17, 1953
Creator: Geo. E. Failing Sup Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0410]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "S-SGT Jesse Cook, a native of South Carolina, has been assigned to Enid's 9848th air reserve squadron to handle liaison, Maj. Robert Four Californians drowned in a E. Georges commander of the Oklahoma City air reserve center, announced."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Top student nurse Barbara Conway, Enid, center, of the Oklahoma University School of Nursing, receives congratulations from Paulette Thompson, of the nominating committee, and Charles Reese, vice president of the Oklahoma State Student Nursing Association."
Date: October 6, 1967
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0361.0061]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 29, 1971
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0311

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firemen extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Enid firemen battle this fire at the Los Pimientos apartments more than five hours Tuesday night and Wednesday only three walls of the two story 10 apartment building were standing. Loss in the fire which started about 5 PM was estimated at more than $125,000 by Mr. M. G. Peppers, Oklahoma City oil man, who sold it to Dr. Paul Champlin in 1942. A short circuit in a basement wire apparently touched off the blaze… more
Date: February 22, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0227]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "These new state officers were installed at the annual convention of the (Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers) held in Lawton during last weekend."
Date: February 20, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0324]

Description: Photograph is of a two story building with smoke and flames rising from the roof. Firemen are on the ground near the building battling the blaze. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Flames light up windows of American Legion Hall at Enid as fire of undetermined origin Thursday gutted the hall, which housed Enid's largest ballroom. Destroyed also were instruments of the Legion-Sponsored drum and bugle corps and new baseball uniforms."
Date: January 24, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0839]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DRIVER ESCAPED INJURY in this accident of a semi-trailer truck in a crash north of Drummond, in Garfield county, about 2 AM Thursday. Jerry Allen Abbott, 24, of route 2, Fairview, said the wind blew him off course."
Date: September 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0508]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Right: A side view of the wrecked and burned coach of the Rock Island Rocket."
Date: April 14, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0313]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman on top of the open ladder off the fire pump truck spraying an open hose onto the roof of a burning brick building. Smoke is billowing out of the roof of the building. Two other firemen are holding hoses that are spraying into the broken windows into the multiple story structure from the ground.
Date: April 16, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0669]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Contests are on for the Republican nominations for state senator in two districts in the northern part of the state."
Date: June 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0137]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: July 4, 1954
Creator: George E. Failing Company
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0361]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Homer Wolf, Houston, admonishes his champion white leghorn to knock Fairmont, Okla., birds from the top perch they have long held in the big show here."
Date: December 1, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0315

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Date: April 15, 1955
Creator: Ford, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0142]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: June 2, 1950
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0304]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The state rested it's case Saturday in the trial of Larry Richard Fink, Lamont, Saturday morning following 3 1/2 days of testimony from 11 witnesses, and headed into a night session to hear defense testimony. Fink is charged with the criminal assault of an 11 year old Enid Girl on Feb. 28, 1966."
Date: September 9, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0361.0083]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Enid civic workers listen to information about forming a Women's Committee."
Date: May 24, 1969
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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