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[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0150]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The first Methodist church at Crescent, organized in 1890 as the outgrowth of a Thanksgiving day union service in 1889, will dedicate its new building Wednesday with the assistance of Dr. W. Angie Smith, bishop for Oklahoma and New Mexico."
Date: April 5, 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0151]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Billy Joe Armstrong knew the 55 - year - old building in Crescent that housed his plumbing and electrical business had seen its best day."
Date: July 2, 1972
Creator: Bowdon, Boyce
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0269

Description: Photograph taken at night of a building engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "Flames which swept a home here caused the death of four small children. Two of the children were found near the front door when volunteer firefights were able to enter the ruins."
Date: December 5, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0268

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of the charred ruins of a burned building. A man stands nearby. Caption: "The smoking gap in Crescent's main street pictured above was the Yenzer Brothers Furniture and Hardware Company, before a $100,000 fire destroyed the building early Monday."
Date: August 21, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0152]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Billy Joe Armstrong knew the 55 - year - old building in Crescent that housed his plumbing and electrical business had seen its best day."
Date: July 2, 1972
Creator: Bowdon, Boyce
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0147]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a different kind of a ghost town. Its streets now are faint trails in richly cultivated fields. Tall grass grows between the rocks where stores, cotton gins, blacksmith shops and a saloon once catered to a small, but thriving population."
Date: December 20, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0177]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Church members in small towns with dwindling populations can take heart that someone else is worrying about their problems now."
Date: July 20, 1960
Creator: Fisher, Dawes
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0178]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rev. martin H. Davis, pastor of the Christian church at Crescent, has been named the Disciples of Christ "Rural Minister of the Year" for the United States and Canada."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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