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[2012.201.B0051.0263]

Description: The remains of a large military aircraft that crashed in a field near a tree line. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Investigators check military plane which crashed at Fort Sill killing four persons."
Date: October 16, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0265]

Description: A group of men stand near the tail section of a large military aircraft that has crashed in a field near a tree line. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crash Kills 4 Investigators examine the wreckage of an Air Force Reserve C-123 transport plane that crashed on Fort Sill west range Thursday. Four of the five Ohio reservist crewmen on board were killed."
Date: October 16, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0092.0507]

Description: Photograph of woman with dog in a bedroom. Caption: "So Melanie Blackburn, executive director of Dog Ears -- Companion Dogs for the Hearing Impaired, reminded Juanita Van Orden to ask her children to get used to calling her Juanita during the last week before Bunny came home."
Date: March 16, 1989
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0997.0084]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Starting at linebacker for the Oklahoma City Plainsmen when they play Arkansas Saturday night in Enid will be Bill Overton, 6-2 by 220-pounder who joined the city-ans this week after being released by the Dallas Cowboys." Photograph is of a man in a football uniform slightly couching down as if to start running in a football play.
Date: August 16, 1968
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0045]

Description: Photograph is of a industrial refinery that has a large dark plume of smoke rising from the background. Caption: "An estimated $100,000 damage resulted from a series of explosions and fire Tuesday night at the Ben Franklin Oil Co. refinery north of here."
Date: April 16, 1958
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.
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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