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[Basement Box 51.0123]

Description: Caption: "A two-alarm fire damaged one building and others early Monday at the Free Will Baptist Church, 2300 SW 30. Assistant Chief Nim Newberry said the fire started in the kitchen area of the educational building and damaged several classroom." Top of church steeple seen through collapsed roof after fire.
Date: December 16, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 51.0124]

Description: Caption: "INTENSE HEAT melted candles in educational building of Free Will Baptist Church Monday as fire did an estimated $10,000 damage. Fire investigators have not eliminated the possibility of arson." Charred electric candles.
Date: December 16, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 51.0150]

Description: Photograph is a portrait of a middle aged man wearing a clergy collar and tweed jacket. Caption: "Rev. Harold Fisher, minister of the Leicester North Circuit Methodist Churches in England, will be speaking in Oklahoma City April 24 through May 13. The visit is part of the 200th anniversary of Methodist preaching in America. Each Sunday Mr. Fisher will preach in Oklahoma City's South District."
Date: April 16, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0039]

Description: Caption: "Flames apparently starting in the ceiling destroyed this concrete block building at 3133 NE 23, as firemen struggled against the odds of blocked doors an lack of water." Firetruck in front of burning Foster's Restaurant.
Date: December 16, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0141]

Description: Caption: "Hole gapes in roof after fire struck the Full Gospel Assembly Church, SW 55 and May shortly before 5 a.m. today" Burned and caved in roof of the Full Gospel Assembly Church.
Date: February 16, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0373

Description: Photograph taken at night of a firefighter on a ladder spraying water from a fire hose while flames blaze on the roof above him. Caption: "Flames curl from the walls and leap from the roof of the Joseph J. Green residence, 11117 Leaning Elm in Quail Creek, Saturday night as a fireman sprays water through a second floor window to douse the fire which destroyed the home and took the life of Mrs. Green."
Date: September 16, 1973
Creator: Webster, Glen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0374

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of a house destroyed by fire. Caption: "Stand stark against the sky Sunday after a Saturday night fire destroyed this home at 11117 N Leaning Elm and took the life of Mrs. Ida J. Green, wife of Joseph J. Green."
Date: September 16, 1978
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 66.0384]

Description: A daylight photograph taken at the scene of a duplex fire in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The image shows firemen on the ground and roof of a residence after the fire had been extinguished. The firemen had opened a hole in the roof in order to battle the flames. Caption: "[Roof wrecking] became necessary Wednesday to snuff out all of the flames that caused about $350 damage to a duplex in the 100 block NE 10."
Date: May 16, 1973
Creator: Artman, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 66.0430

Description: Photograph of people searching through boxes of fire-damaged items. Caption: "Student teacher Jo Ragsdale pokes forlornly through charred wreckage of the learning center at New World private school, 10105 N Pennsylvania, where unexplained flames destroyed the main building shortly before midnight Sunday."
Date: September 16, 1974
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0076]

Description: Photograph is of a brick structure that the roof has collapsed into the interior and part of the brick walls have collapsed as well. The remaining walls are burnt black in areas. the trees surrounding the building are laden in ice from the water used to fight the fire. Caption: "Ice-laden trees provided a foreground of contrast as the old section of the Putnam City junior high school burned Monday morning."
Date: December 16, 1940
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0078]

Description: Photograph is of a destroyed multiple story brick structure. the roof has collapsed in tot he interior as well as major portions of the exterior brick walls. A few men are walking around the structure surveying the damage. Caption: "This is what was left of the old section of Putnam City junior high school after a fire which broke out in the early hours of Monday morning had done its work."
Date: December 16, 1940
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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