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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0256]

Description: Photograph is of the remains of a wooden structure that was destroyed by a fire. Most of the roof is collapsed into the interior of the building and only part of a wall and charred wooded beams remains standing. Caption: "Fire Tuesday which destroyed a building housing the base chapel, gymnasium, post exchange and NCO club, at Clinton-Sherman air fore base has been blamed on faulty wiring. Maj. Ervin Bork, base fire marshal, estimated loss at $108,000."
Date: October 17, 1956
Creator: Westervelt, Jay
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0272]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Leland Clegg, who calls himself a 'country boy' prepared Thursday to step down as Oklahoma City district superintendent for the Methodist church."
Date: May 17, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0798]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "of the Junior League of Oklahoma City working toward the success of the Southwest Horse cavalcade are (left to right) Mrs. Frank Johnson Hightower, 439 NW 15; Mrs. Todd Archbald, 1717 Huntington, and Mrs. H. H. Clifford jr., 501 NW 17."
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0057]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stop" is not only good advice to drivers but also the name of a game that traffic court judge James Demopolos awarded these four pupils at Kaiser school."
Date: December 17, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0257]

Description: Photograph is the remains of a wooden building that most was destroyed by fire. Burnt wooden studs and debris lies in the interior of the building with the back exterior wall half standing. Caption: "SHERMAN AIR FORCE BASE."
Date: October 17, 1956
Creator: Westervelt, Jay
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0127]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chick Crowther's Northwest Baptist roundballers, Junior church league champions, square off Saturday with trinity Baptist in the playoff rounds of the league."
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0445

Description: Daytime aftermath of fire as fire fighters and a group of bystanders view the rubble and burned out automobile. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 17, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0030]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "POLICE BLAMED A BUG Monday for causing $400 damage to a city water department pump station building at W Reno and Grand boulevard. Mrs. Alma L. Looker, 32, of Bethany, told officers she was driving on W Reno when a bug flew into her blouse. She lost control of her automobile and crashed into the concrete block building housing one of the city's water wells. She went to the water department and identified hersel… more
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0091]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "this navy polo experimental take-off plane fascinated Keith Davis, 4 1/2, son of commander and Mrs. D.C. Davis, Norman, as he got the first tickets issued for the National Air Show to be held here Sept. 1 to 3 ."
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0329]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Still the champion in southwest table tennis circles is city man Mort Finkelstein (left), a narrow victor overt Gene Smith of Wichita, KS, in Sunday's finals of the Oklahoma State Open Tourney here."
Date: January 17, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0028]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Shoes and scattered vegetables mark the death scene of a heroic Oklahoma City maid. Police officer L.A. Gramling is conducting an investigation. An Oklahoma City maid was killed Tuesday afternoon as she pushed a 5-year-old boy from the path of a careening car in the 3200 block N Ross. The woman, Mrs. Veola Christian Brown, 43, of 2417 NE 14, was hit by a car driven by a 16-year-old girl, knocked 81 feet, and di… more
Date: October 17, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0247]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First baby born at St. Anthony on Christmas day will be "free" so far as hospital costs are concerned. The St. Anthony Volunteer league has announced it will pay the bill for the earliest arrival next Tuesday."
Date: December 17, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0038]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Robert Farris Crow, 29, of 417 SW 10, who is accused of assaulting his 15-month-old stepson with a belt, pleaded innocent Friday at arraignment before Paul Powers, justice of the peace."
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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