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BASEMENT BOX 67.0170

Description: Photograph taken at night of unidentified crowd viewing a building engulfed in a raging mass of flames. Caption: "Razed in a spectacular fire was this Greenville school, four miles north of Marietta on U.S 77 in a blaze which occurred just as the frame gymnasium and lunchroom were destroyed at a loss of $50,000."
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: Alexander, Chick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0834]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT but two Marietta men were jailed for drunkenness Sunday after their pickup crashed through a barrier and tried to cross this unfinished bridge over Hickory creek north of Marietta on U.S. 77."
Date: June 5, 1955
Creator: Kelly, Ray B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0836]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BLAZING BUTANE ruined this bridge and blocked off traffic on U.S. 77 seven miles north of Marietta Saturday. The truck, driven by Marvin G. Carr, Dallas, was hauling 4,080 gallons of butane when it crashed into the bridge."
Date: January 30, 1955
Creator: Duncan, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0788]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Hives of bees were scattered over the median of IH-35 south of Marietta after an accident in which Delvin Bradley Willis, 18, of Wolsey, S.D., was killed."
Date: April 20, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0765]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Multi-vehicle pileup such as this one in which four trucks were involved near Marietta have taken the lives of six persons in the first two days of July on Oklahoma's interstate highways."
Date: July 1, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0495]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Examining a copy of the weekly Marietta Monitor dated Feb. 4, 1897, are three generations of the family which has published the newspaper for 59 years. Seated is Mrs. Wilma Choate, who holds H. Willis Choate IV in her lap."
Date: May 27, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0105.0532]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Suzie Brewster, mother of two children aboard a plane missing since late Wednesday, and Nancy Pate, whose husband also was a passenger, console one another as the children's father, state Rep. Bill Brewster, discuss Friday's search."
Date: February 2, 1990
Creator: Sisney, Steve
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0105.0531]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "State Rep. Bill Brewster, D-Marietta, and wife Suzie, arrive for the funeral of their son and daughter Thursday at the Marietta High School Auditorium."
Date: February 8, 1990
Creator: Longstreath, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0127]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Steele Batson Marietta attorney and former legislator Sunday was named campaign manager for Johnston Murray, democratic candidate for governor."
Date: July 24, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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